Chanukkah

Last week was Emma's first festival of lights. Grandma was here celebrating with us for the first few nights. Emma kept trying to grab candles and she was not feeling the latkes. She liked playing with the wrapping paper and she is learning to get on the move with her new walker.

Mommy's Helper

When I am cooking in the kitchen, Emma often crawls in and gets into the cupboards. She thinks that she is helping, but she is usually just making a mess (a really cute mess)! Here she is caught in action.

1st Thanksgiving

Patrick's mother came to visit for Thanksgiving and we had a blast. She and Patrick attending a Pickling Class and they loved it! (I know its weird, but it was the only class being given this week and I decided they would have fun AND I was right.)

We went to my parents' for dinner and I milled up the turkey so Emma could eat some too. She loved smearing the feast around he tray and dropping it on the floor.


We saw three movies and played Yuker. Emma went to a Gymboree class and enjoyed her first, early morning, Black Friday shopping trip.

Snoopy

We decided to tour our own town and went to the Schultz museum last weekend - maybe because we had just watched The Great Pumpkin. There were some cool cartooning displays and Emma liked crawling around on the different Snoopy statues and beanbags. What I love about Peanuts is that most of the comics are timeless.

Up and About

So the day after halloween, Emma woke up from her nap and I came into the room to find this.....



and ever since, she has been pulling up on everything. She had only stood up once or twice before (video to come!) and now she is cruising along furniture. Look out, here she comes!

Party

Emma and I went to a Halloween party last night. Patrick was supposed to come as a farmer, but he's sick again (as usual he didn't get a flu shot.) We had a potluck dinner with my mommy group and then took the kids down the street to trick or treat at a few houses. Emma loved grabbing something out of the bowl and chewing on the wrappers. Her favorite house handed out little containers of playdoh - she liked biting the hard plastic.