Emi's 2!!!

Boo bear is two!  It's crazy to me that she's two already...and that we're done with baby stage for good (at least in our plans).  She doesn't think it's crazy though, she actually thinks she's THREE!  It's too funny, we'll say Emi how old are you and she'll say THREE!  Or we'll say are you two and she'll say no THREE!  Oh well, I guess we'll just have to skip the 2's. ;)

She's so fun right now.  She's starting to not put everything in her mouth, so since she's not eating crayons we've been able to start coloring a little.  She still loves playing with her babies and does a great job being their mommy.  She wants to do everything her sister does (which is probably why she says she's 3!)...she wants to ride a bike (as soon as she can reach the pedals!), she goes potty (most of the time), and the thing she is learning most from her sister is pretending.  Alyssa has such a great imagination and Emi is really picking up on how to pretend.  It is so cute!

One cute thing Emi has just started to do is pray.  She'll fold her hands and say, "pray mommy, pray daddy, pray sister, pray ME...amen...YEAH!!!"  :)

Huge praise from her 2 year check-up is that she is 24lbs, which is in the 20%!!!  For her height she is somehow in the 70-90%..not sure how that happened???  Thank you Lord for a happy, healthy 2 year old!

I love this little girl so much!

Here are some pics of my sweet little Emi's birthday party and birthday 'day'...

It was a puppy theme (she's loves puppies!!).  We had cupcakes decorated like puppies and ones with candy dog bones on them.

Here's Emi with her cousin Emma...Emma made sure to take special care of Emi during the party! :)

Emi was having a hard time blowing out her candle, so she decided to eat the flame!  We pulled it away just in time.

Emi LOVED opening her presents....and that's pretty much it.  She would open it super fast and then just throw it aside and go on to the next one!  Once we got home we 're-opened' the presents and actually looked at them, and she has loved playing with all of them since.

Her 1st Barbie!

A new baby!!!

Here she is enjoying her new lamb pillow.

She loves that her new baby came with her own potty, now they can go to the bathroom together!

She loves 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear' so she was very excited to read her new book, 'Baby Bear, Baby Bear.'

"I'm ready to garden daddy!"

Her very own dress up. :)

Here's us at Joe's Farm Grill enjoying her birthday breakfast.

Then we headed to Build-a-Bear where she got to make her own puppy.  (Alyssa got to bring her bear along for a bath.)  :)

Circus pics!

This past week, the girls and I went to the circus with my parents and a bunch of friends.  We all had such a great time and enjoyed the wonderful show they put on!

Emi waiting to go in.

Alyssa doing her silly clown face. :)

Alyssa and Aidan

My mom and Emi

Misc. June Pics

Here are the girls, ready to take out Daddy for a Father's Day breakfast at Liberty Market.

After breakfast we headed behind the restaurant where they have lots of fun water features.  The girls loved it!

It was pretty hot, so Emi just decided to lean against the water and get soaked! ;)

Storytime with our friends Joshua and Nadine. :)

Emi FINALLY enjoying a bounce house...YEAH!!! :)

On our way to the splash park!

Emi playing 'nigh-night' with her 'friends'. :)

Meeting Baby Brooklyn! :)  ...I love how her hair curls up on the top, she's such a cutie pie!!!

Happy birthday to our dear friend!

Happy birthday Jim!!!  

Love, the Herbrandsons

Fun swim time with the girls!

We had such a fun time taking the girls swimming this morning...they are getting so big!  Alyssa practiced swimming without her arm floaties all morning and did a great job 'using big arms'.  Emi was throwing in toys and then jumping in to get them, going down the slide, and putting herself to a back float and then even kicking around the pool on her back (w/floaties).  Both of these are HUGE improvements from a couple a weeks ago...it was so fun to see them learning so much and having so much fun!  I can't wait to see what the next couple of months brings. :)

Play group today...

Today we had play group at Peter Piper Pizza since they had a special program set up for the kids...today was hero day!  They had a firetruck for the kids to climb in and firefighters and a policewoman for the kids to talk to.  Then after play time they had a safety talk with the kids.  It was so cute because after the 'no talk to strangers' talk the policewoman asked if anyone had questions and I see Alyssa's hand pop up.  I know even though I can understand her, that others have a hard time...and sometimes she just starts telling random stories, so when I saw her hand pop up I ran up quickly to the front to try and interpret.  I never really thought that she would have an actual question and that it would be related to the talk, but she did!  ...and she was so serious about it!  She asked, "What should I do if I hear something at night and get scared."  I was cracking up because it was so cute how she asked and that she was so serious about it...she seemed so big!  She just looked at me like, "Mom, stop laughing, I'm asking a question!"  

Playing before the fire truck got there.

Here's pics of the girls and Eli trying to figure out if they like being in the fire truck or not. :)

The kids did great sitting there while they did their talk.

Here's the kids trying to stand a arms length apart from each other.

Here's them doing: Stop, Drop, and Roll

Fun with friends...

Here are some random pics from the past week.

Here is a pic of Alyssa and Emi with their friends Mercy & Laney at the library.

Hanging out at Chuck E Cheese with Alaina and Lili.

Just a cute pic of daddy with his girls. :)

Having fun at Alexis' gymnastics party!