a sick couple of weeks...

Well as you may have learned from Derek's last post, we all had our fair share of sickness going on. Little miss Emma was so sad the first few days of her sickness. Something she had been doing when Daddy was gone, was grab one of Daddy's shirts and drag it around calling out for "daddy....daddy.....daddy." She would go stand at the door just calling for him. It was just too cute. She wanted her Daddy.

She has definitely become more of a Daddy's girl the last couple months since I have gone back to school. It's neat to see them bond more. It's also sad for me sometimes because I was used to having her want Mommy, when I was home with her more. But it's great to see them build that bonding relationship.

You knew she was so sick when she didn't want to play, only wanted to watch "Spot" and cuddle.

Dino and Monkey have been a huge support and comfort for her.They have been by her side 100%, even while sleeping and eating. I was just happy to see she got her appetite back.
Still so cute even though not feeling so hot.

Now you might ask..."how is Emma feeling now?" She's back to her fun and healthy self again. Derek...well he's still got a lingering cough. And me?, I'm healthy again as well.

Just love her to pieces!

The "Man Cold"

So all three of us have been sharing this cold for the past couple weeks. Emma and Mandy got it first and I was lucky to avoid it for quite a while. It finally caught up with me this week.

The result looked something like this:

The continuing saga of Floyd the fish. . .

As was noted in the comments of the previous post, Petsmart does indeed have a 2 week lifespan guarantee on their fish.
So Saturday night we came home with Floyd the Second. He's been with us three days so far and we haven't managed to kill him yet.


Of course Emma loves him. She looks for her fish every morning and during every meal.




This betta swims around much more than the other one which just lay on the bottom of the bowl most of the time. I think our first one was a lemon.

Goodbye Floyd...

Soooo... we did everything that the girl at Petsmart told us to do, yet Floyd departed with this earthly realm today.
We were sad :(
Will Petsmart give us another fish?

Meet Floyd...

We got a new pet fish. His name is Floyd. He is a Beta fish and we thought he was a pretty color. Emma loves him.
The end!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!

So, I wake up this morning and I found this......and the whole house was cleaned as well. Derek you are so wonderful, I am so lucky to have you! I LOVE you sweetie and HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!

Emma meets her ancestors....

hahaha, as many of you know..our little Emma LOVES dinosaurs! Ever since she was about 5 months, she has had the talent of growling :) We have called her our little dinosaur most of her life thus far. Daddy and Emma have been pretty much home bound for about a week because Emma has been sick with a virus but is getting better. Yesterday we got out of the house and went to the 'Earth Science' museum at BYU. She LOVED it!! Right when we walked in, she started growling like crazy and pointing to all the cool dinosaur pictures and fossil skeletons. It was so fun watching her.

She kept saying, "teeth" pointing to their teeth.

Here she is growling.

looking at the display cases

They had a mural of dinosaurs. This one was kind of grusome if you look closely. hhmmmppphhh!