AJ plays with a spoon

AJ finds joy in the little things. I call this 'AJ and the spoon'.

Sausage Fest 2010

Some of the private schools here put on big fund raising events. The Catholic school does an annual sausage festival. The game booths are a lot of fun for children. Emily learned very quickly that if you give them a ticket they let you play a game and then give you a toy.

The main courtyard is set up like a little German village. Though the tent was nice for some shade.

Emmy was happy with her corn.

This is Emmy and Daddy doing some fishing

Emily liked the Butterfly Gardens

Fun With Emmy

We have lots of fun with Emmy. Here are some short videos we have taken recently

We decided that 'Emmy Bowling' was a better name than 'Emmy Balls', but it is fun. We have played it for our family home evening, Emmy scores pretty high. Well at least when she isn't trying to slide down the ramp (which can't support her).

This is from vacation at Grandma's house. I call it 'Destructo Baby', which just about says it all.

It was a beautiful (and hot) day yesterday. So in the evening when it had cooled down a bit we went to the park for ice cream and a walk by the river. Both activities proved fun for us.

The first time that Emmy got her very own ice cream cone.


The water was cold, but after a bit she wanted to stand in the river and splash too. She got wet. Here is Emmy warming up in one of Daddy's shirts.

This is how we play with Balloons

Summer begins

In preparation for the summer months we had to teach Emmy a few things. Very important things, like eating corn on the cob.

Once she got started, she had no problem eating it straight from the Cobb. It took some convincing to keep her eating when the camera came out, which was almost a problem. This camera phone only does 30 second videos.

It was a good idea to have some extra cooked, so that I could have some of my own corn.

A big walking girl!

Here is another shot of Emmy walking.

Climbing to our First Steps

I think these speak for themselves. Emmy just keeps on going.

A future in soccer?

Laura and Emily came with me to the last combined young mens and women's activity. So while all the youth where doing their team building activities Emmy got to kick a ball around a bit.

Emmy and the Kitty

Today we went back to find our friend Lulu the Zebra and get some more preserves. Unfortunately they will not have all the animals back until next month. But Emmy got to play with a kitty. She was a little shy at first with the cat. With dogs she just lunges as quick as she can to get them. But she warmed up to the kitty and we had to make sure she was not pulling fur or wiskers.

Emmy is such a big girl!

Emily is growing up. She has finally learned how to crawl. She had been threatening for a while now, but we thought she might walk first.

The nice thing about racing an infant, is you don't even have to walk fast to win, but she is definitely cuter than I am.

A little late ...

We took a few photos of Emmy for Valentines. Here is what we ended up with.

The Joy of Laughter

Emily is just learning to laugh, she has quite the smile...
When she starts laughing good it doesn't
take long to start hiccuping.