We're not in Texas anymore, that's for sure!!

Snow?  In late March?  A BLIZZARD?!!?!  "Thunder-snow?????"  (We think those silly KS weather guys just made that one up.  BUT, I must say....I DID hear thunder claps at one point during the blizzard....still, 

"thunder-snow?"  It all sounded a bit strange to us!)

Friday night (March 27th) was mostly an ice storm....see what happened to our trees in a pic below.  Then the snow came late that night and early in the day on Saturday.  It really was beautiful!!!  In the last pic, I was trying to capture how big the snowflakes were....never seen anything like it--flakes as big as quarters, at least!  It was amazing!  They predicted between 6 and 15 inches.  According to our ruler, we got between 7 and 8 inches in our part of town.

We had some fun family time making our snowman.  Well, actually, Emma mostly sat back and ate snow, & I was a bit limited in my bending over and rolling snow ability....so Brett actually did most of the hard work and I did the "decorating" afterwards.  Still, we all had fun outside together.  Then poor Brett got another work-out shoveling the sidewalk & driveway.  

Hoping warmer weather is coming real soon (& staying!!!)

I'm 29 weeks along now....and feeling very pregnant!!  Sleep has been rough lately.  Indigestion & heartburn appear to be my new best friend (same as with my pregnancy with Emma).  This little guy is sooooooo incredibly active!!!  It NEVER gets old watching my belly move around or feeling him do acrobats in there!  Poor Brett...several times a day still, I keep grabbing his hand so that he feels too.  I absolutely love feeling him move....can't help but smile thinking about it!

Here's a couple pics of Emma and I taken this weekend.  

And here's 3 pics of our little Emma:

1. Making a "nice" play-doh monster.
2. Getting some fun McDonald's playground time on a cold day.
3. All dressed up, "playing Princess"  

And a few funny Emma stories:

1. Last Thanksgiving, Nana (my mom) & Emma were playing outside with "tickle sticks" (a certain long & soft needle off a pine-type tree).  Well, apparently it's been a while since Emma has played with one...today she didn't remember exactly what her and Nana had called them.  She kept calling them "stickle ticks."
2. For some reason, Emma has a hard time remembering how to say "cantaloupe."  They've been really yummy lately so we've had them around a lot the past week or so.  Whenever Emma wants some she says, "Mommy, can I eat some buffalo?"  (you can imagine how tricky that was to figure out the first time!! :O)
3. Emma has become so very friendly to strangers (ie: people around us at the grocery store, servers at restaurants, etc.).  The slightest smile or wave from a stranger and she just takes off!!!  Her side of the conversation usually goes something like this: "I just got 'free' on my birfday (as she holds up 3 fingers).  I'm a big gurl now.  And we made a giant cookie wif lots of tangs on it.  I have a baby broder in my mommy's belly, but he is not ready to come out yet.  He is getting bigger and bigger and when he come out I will help him go down da slide and I will show him all da animals at da zoo and he can sit in my lap..." Depending on how friendly the stranger is this can go on & on & on, until either I stop her or the stranger ends it.  As we were leaving a restaurant recently, Emma waved at every single table between our table and the front door (about 10 or so tables).  It's been fun to watch!  Crazy how quickly kids can bring a smile to just about any stranger's face.

FUNNY STORY!!

Hey, so I have a funny story to tell...

Brett took Emma for a walk last night as I got dinner ready.  He stopped to talk with our neighbor that lives TWO DOORS DOWN.  In the midst of their conversation, our neighbor asks us if we still use a baby monitor.  Brett said, "Yes."  She said, "Yeah, I think y'all are using channel one, right?"  He said, "Yes, I think so..."  Apparently, they can pick up the signal from our monitor.  She went on to say, "Don't worry.  We changed ours to channel 2."  

YIKES!!! No telling what they've heard......the things that first came to my mind:  singing songs to her every night at bedtime, when she is in trouble/gets spankings, etc.  The even funnier thing is that this particular neighbor is a CPS worker....I guess we haven't done anything to cause concern.  :o)  

Pretty crazy, huh?  I would have never thought such a thing could happen.  It makes me wonder who (if anybody) else hears us around our neighborhood.  

Emma's 3rd Birthday

I've been wanting to blog for days.....I finally found the time (& energy) to do it!!

We celebrated Emma's 3rd birthday this past Monday, March 2nd. We decided not to have a party this year, but tried extra hard to make it a super special day for her. We had fun!!

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Bed-head & all...here's what she woke up to...

After opening presents, she ate pancakes (a favorite)...using her new place-mat, plate, and fork/spoon set that my Aunt Leslie & Uncle Jack got for her.
Then a birthday bath...she wanted to do this, I promise! She was in there for nearly an hour!!
Then we played with some of our new presents...
Here, she is showing off a little hummingbird that Aunt Mary sent for her. She loves it!
Emma had fun helping ice and decorate her birthday cake ("fruit pizza"- a giant sugar cookie with icing & all her favorite fruits).
and of course....
Putting on the finishing touches...
So very proud of herself...
For the middle part of day, we mostly stayed around the house & played with her new toys. Instead of napping, she watched Mary Poppins (her new favorite movie). We spent a chunk of time at McDonald's Play Place...it was too cold to go to the park, which is what she had asked to do. Later that night after dinner, we took her to Chucky Cheese to play for a while. She loves that place. I usually spend $2-3 dollars on tokens each time we go & she has a blast. It's another great indoors activity I've discovered for cold days.


After a long day of fun, she crashed early!!

I still can't believe my baby girl turned 3!! Her birthday was such a special day for me too....Being pregnant on her birthday really made me think back to the day I had her & what a special day it was for us.... knowing that I'll be doing this all over again very soon with little baby boy Spivey...it's exciting & super special!!

Just a fun little side-note:
Emma & I's birthdays are almost exactly 2 weeks apart.
If baby boy comes on his due date, then him & Brett's birthdays will be 2 weeks apart.
Kinda fun, huh? :O) At least I thought so...