In July, we purchased Emerson's first groupon! Dan landed-on an AMAZING groupon for Emerson's first cake-eating experience for her birthday. e&bphotography {website: enbphotos.com} photographed the event and we had a great time! They were amazing to work with.
August was filled with swimming in Grandpa's pool. It brought back great memories for Grandpa of when Dan was little and swimming in their pool. Emme has grandpa wrapped around her finger. Tim {Grandpa/Papa} often invites Grandma Lynch {Great Grandma Lynch to Emme} when we come over and it is fun to see the generations of the Lynch family together and see them interact.
In September, we discovered that Emerson LOVES make-up!!!! She will turn almost everything into a make-up brush and search frantically for an available cheek to rub said "make-up brush" on. She is such a girly-girl! She loves sparkles and jewels, and she doesn't particularly like any texture on her hands that "shouldn't be there" according her her larger than life personality that is stuffed into a tiny body. She LOVES to dig in the dirt and the sand, she rivals most geologists with her love of rocks and could possibly become a dentist with her fascination of teeth {sometimes I feel like a monkey with her no-back-down policy on touching my teeth and making sure they are all accounted for}
Halloween started-out a no-brainer "Olivia the pig" Emerson's favorite books! We read them daily, we have a plush Olivia doll who receives more hugs per day from Emerson than I do, I have a fabric panel with a roughly 3ft. drawing of Olivia on it that Emme forcefully requests that I hang over the back of her highchair so she can give Olivia a hug {which, bytheway, I am turning into a 3ft. pillow shaped like Olivia for Emme for Christmas so she can hug something with more depth}. Then I hummed and hawed over whether or not I should make something more clever and less predictable, so 2 days before Halloween, Emme's Olivia costume was created and she was so happy to wear an 'Olivia' dress that I knew I made the right choice.
For November, "Whit's-notes" brings us Aunt Mallory and Uncle Jordan's wedding. Emme was so excited to have family around that she couldn't contain herself. Every time family members {other than her parents} walked through the front door, she ran screaming for a few steps, stopped abruptly and began to 'break-dance'...it was entertaining. She literally spun to the ground because she couldn't contain her emotions. After the reception, Emme began playing with the cake-toppers I made of Mallory and Jordan {we refer to them as baby Mallory and baby Jordan because of their size}. So Emme carries around 'baby Mallory' and 'baby Jordan' around the house. The figurines made it into her crib at one point. So, being that I strive for complete and total 'Martha-ness', I went back to the Etsy shop that I bought the blank wooden cake-toppers from and purchased enough to paint baby: Nana {my mom}, Gigi {Dan's mom}, Papa {Dan's dad), mama {me}, daddy {Dan}, Matt, and Sarah to add to our collection of painted baby family members. I don't have them finished yet. Hopefully soon.
I've caught up! and this post only took me...longer than I want to admit. So, hopefully I'll keep on top of things hahahahahahahahahahaha and I'll post Christmas pictures within one month of taking them hahahahahahahahahaha! We'll see.
