February 21

Well, today we had an appointment for Emma to get her first birthday pictures made. She had other plans. We got up and went out to the studio for her 9:00 appointment. As soon as she woke up, we got her dressed and out the door. Mistake number 1. She is getting over croop. Mistake number 2. We got out there and she would not let me put her down, under any circumstances. We even broke out the cake. She cried as soon as I sat her down. It was awful. Needless to say, no pictures today. We rescheduled for Friday morning, not quite as early though. She is not a morning princess. We just came home and decided to play at the house today. We all (Ethan, Emma, and Daddy) are trying really hard NOT to be sick next weekend for the big celebration.

And of course, as soon as we got home from pictures, Emma was fine and got into Mommy's gym bag, got out her water bottle, and decided it was play time. She got down and was running around and even smiling. Now she is napping and Ethan and Daddy are playing Mario Cart (a new fav at our house! Mommy is even getting halfway decent at it!)

This video, if it uploads is from a hard lesson that Ethan learned at Toys R Us the other night. He wanted a car and stood in the car aisle for about 15-20 minutes and couldn't pick one out. Finally after much debate (and many staring people) Mommy picked up a screaming Ethan and took him out of the store with nothing. We are trying to teach him that if we say if you don't pick out a car right now we are leaving we will actually leave. Well then matters got even worse. He was screaming the whole ride home. Daddy told him that if he didn't stop screaming, he would go straight to bed when we got home. Again, trying to teach a point here, he didn't stop screaming until the car was in park so...you see the video!