Valentine's Date With Daddy

Fouad took his two favorite girls out to a "fancy" dinner on Valentine's Day! Here's a few photos of our night out at Waffle House. Emily loved it, and we will definitely return for this next year!

Fun with Grandma & Grandpa

Emily has two sets of wonderful grandparents. They really enjoy spending time with her and showering her with lots of love. Grandma & Grandpa love to visit Emily as often as they can. They were on vacation for a few weeks and came to visit as soon as they got home. Here are some pictures from their fun reunion:

Bathtime Fun :-)

Here's Emily playing with her current favorite bathtub toy, her Mickey Mouse Clubhouse puzzle, right before she had her bath:



18 months

Emily is 1 1/2 years old! She's so entertaining these days; she's been cracking us up all month! Here she is helping Mommy make her afternoon snack:

Here's everything else going on in Emily's world this month:

* Emily loves her dolls, which she calls her babies. She has a tiny stroller and pack n play that she loves to play with around the house. She usually tucks her babies in to sleep before she heads up for bed, and can often be seen feeding her babies (or the dogs).

* Emily has really started to love to color. She even lays on her belly and colors, and she's learned to only color in the coloring book, but that doesn't mean she always follows that rule!

* Her back teeth are coming in, and they look like they are pretty painful!
* Emily has a lot of new words and has started to recited words on flashcards. She also knows "hot" - she surprised us with that at Chepe's when another table ordered fajitas and she said "HOT!" as they went by sizzling.

* Emily's vocabulary continues to amaze us. She knows over 100 words, which we will post soon.

Fun with Mommy :-)

Me and my girl having fun :-)

Learing to talk is hard!

Emily is having a little bit of a hard time with the "F" sound. Here she is attempting to say "fruit" which comes out more like "doot."

Also, around the one minute mark Emily notices the camera. We actually didn't notice this when we were taking the video, and it cracks us up every time we see it!

Happy "Noon" Year!

We celebrated "Noon" Year's Eve for the second year in a row, and it was so much fun. Aunt Nadine, Grandma, and Grandpa joined us this year for the countdown and lunch. Here's our big girl enjoying her NYE lunch at Atkins Park:

This is a tradition that we will definitely continue to repeat. After this celebration, Grandma and Grandpa celebrated with Emily and let Fouad and I have the night off to ring in the new year! We had a great time!