I do it

If you have a toddler then you know these three dreaded words, "I do it."  Not said politely, but screeched at me.  Now, I am all about my children having independence, especially while I take care of the infant, however, "I do it" doesn't really mean, she will do it.  I just wanna tell Emily, then do it, do it right, don't change your mind a million times, and clean up when you are done!  But, she's 2 and this is not a reality.
She wants to dress herself (and then un-dress herself 3 minutes later, in a secret hiding place, usually behind the chair in the livingroom) and then come out yelling, "naked baby!"  in a superhero kind of way.  You must be thinking, How Cute!, it is, most of the time.  Until I try to dress her again and she screeches, "NO!  I do it!"
You get it, right?

On another note, we went to the airport yesterday to pick up a friend.  She has a toddler also.  He and Emily are bestest friends.  They have been gone for 15 whole days.  That's a long time and Emi has been asking about him.  So we say to her, "Do you want to wear something pretty to see Timo at the airport?" and she says, "Yes!  Timo's Mickey Mouse jammas!"  She had borrowed these pajamas a while ago and we never returned them yet.  It was very hot yesterday and these pajamas are flannel.  But I choose to pick my battles.  Cute, right.  We told her it was too hot so she put on her sun hat.  It's too small.  Then we left for the airport.  At least she's modest :)

July 4th, 2012

Anybody reading this has heard of Pinterest. I know you have.  I L O V E Pinterest. I will spend hours looking at Pins.  So we tried a lot of new things that we found there today. And needless to say, today was a day of firsts.

Alex's first 4th of July (actually, this had nothing to do with Pinterest :) 

Our first 4th of July ALL BY OURSELVES! (and neither did this one)

First time making fruit skewers

Just a cute kid

First time making red, white and blue yummy drinks

I even made one for Emily.  And yes, it was all over the kitchen floor.  But she had fun drinking her "soda".

I also made this Jello mold flag that we make every year.  It's not finished yet so I didn't get a photo, but it will look like this one.

We also made some fun decorations that I forgot to photograph.   And we are having lots of fun over here.  We were checking out some firework displays on YouTube to get Emi excited for the fireworks.  We watch the fireworks in the field right behind the school they are shot from so it gets very, very loud.  Emily was a little scared last year.  And that's it.  Happy 4th of July!!