doing weird things in your sleep....

Derek says I look like this in my sleep sometimes....Minus the fifth leg at the end :)   (or is that his tail?)

These are a few of her favorite things...

Our little Emma girl is now 19 months! Are you kidding me? This little girl is SO much fun, we can't get enough of her. Here are a few things she loves to do.

She loves to dance around. I caught her dancing around in her new bathing suit. Can't wait to use it:)

She loves climbing onto her chair in her room and read her books and cuddle with monkey.

She LOVES talking on the phone now. Like gab gab gab on the phone in her own language. Once in a while she'll throw in the word "daddy" or "dink"=drink. She's so sweet.

She also looks forward to putting away clean dishes out of the dishwasher with daddy. She's such a good little helper.

Emma loves her Oma. Anytime she see's her she goes right up to Oma and wants her to hold her and sing, read, and play with her. It's so cute to watch them, especially when Oma is gently singing a song to Emma in German, Emma listens so intently.

Emma also loves to play with her friends Ava, Brooke, and Ethan.

*Some of Emma's NEW words are..
"owey"-ouchy
"wawy"- sorry
"tair"- chair
"dywa"- diaper
"cacku"- cracker
"Boo"
"Bwoo"- blue and moon
"wowa"- flower

Those are the only ones I can think of right now

Psyche!!!

Yes...many of you suspected that it was an April Fool's joke...that it is my friends...that it is! It was fun playing the game though. Thanks for playing along!
love, Derek, Mandy and Emma

couldn't keep it from you much longer....

YES! You guessed it, we are pregnant again!! We are SO excited!! Emma's going to be a wonderful big sister!!

Dinosaurs!!

We went to the Dinosaur park in Ogden a little over a week ago. It was fun to have a little outing with the family during my spring break. I've been meaning to post some pictures but haven't gotten around to it until now. Emma had LOTS of fun and we have lots of pictures...of course!

In contact with the beast!! Lots of growling going on between the both of them :)

Emma had lots of fun in the playground

Emma giving Daddy kisses

I think this was Emma's favorite part of the park. There were a few operated dinosaurs making very realistic sounds and movements. Emma was pretty nervous at first but then warmed up and had a hard time leaving the room. I thought it was scary,

Once again, Emma meets with her ancestors!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

If you use the internet very much, you've undoubtedly noticed that Google occasionally has a unique logo to celebrate special events. I just barely saw today's version and I think it's my favorite so far.


Apparently today is the 40th anniversary of the publication of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I grew up with many of his books and Emma loves them too. I think this book is in her diaper bag right now.

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!