Gymnastic Pictures

Here are some pictures of Emma at gymnastics. I was a little disapointed...I didn't get to take a picture of her on the big balance beam, but I did get a picture of her on the trampoline. She likes to read Oliva books so her response to the trampoline was, " I was Emma, Queen of the Trampoline!" 

Wear Orange for Stellan Tomorrow!

Stellan is having surgery tomorrow, his little heart will be undergoing some pretty sketchy stuff. Please pray for wisdom and guidance for his doctor! Wear orange!!!

Gymnastics

These pictures are of Emma searching for Easter eggs at my aunt and uncle's house in Burlingame. It was raining all day on Easter so the kiddos had to hunt eggs in the house!



After much research by my loving husband, Emma has been enrolled in gymnastics. She had her first class this evening. She loved it. She was the new kid in the class (it was the 5th session out of 9) and didn't know what was going on for sure. But she got to walk on the really high (it is a lot higher than you think it is...it looks shorter on TV) balance beam. She listened really well and tried really hard. I will have to bring my camera next time and take some flash free photos! 

Easter Eggs....

Yesterday's post was supposed to include some pictures of Emma hunting Easter eggs at Daddy's school. But, somehow I couldn't get the pictures to look like I wanted so I guess I didn't put them on yesterday's post...So here they are. She is holding the giant ducky because our almost 3 year old child schooled the other children in the 0-2 room...ok, so we happened to be standing in the area which had the egg that held the grand prize. It was the only actual egg she picked up!

Puppies and Easter Eggs

Well, we got the new puppy, who we named Mackie, on Tuesday afternoon. Emma was just smitten with her. She held her all the way home from the Federal Building and talked to her the whole way home. I forgot how much fun a puppy was and how much work they entail. She is everywhere and is quite the chewer. Emma already says, "I better clean up my toys so she won't chew them. She is a baby and doesn't know any better." She actually has been really good at coaxing Emma out of bed in the morning. Mackie just climbs in her bed and presto, Emma gets up wanting to play!!

Down with Chester Cheetah

I don't know about you but, those "Evil Chester Cheetos" commercials are just embarrassing. Messing with someone and promoting vindictiveness is ridiculous. Those commercials just make me angry because there are plenty of sources of bad behavior elsewhere in multiple sources of media. Parents need to make sure to talk to their children about what they see on television and let them know it isn't OK to do those things.