This is a blog following primarily the events and happenings of our most precious daughters Emma Marget and Olive Grace Patterson. Much love to our friends and family and extra hugs to those that we cant see daily.
She's a beauty... One in a million girls...
Emma is OBSESSED with airplanes. We have an airfield behind our house, so she always hears them. Well, when she hears a plane she stops what she is doing and reaches, and looks. When we were at the park today she started chasing after the planes, running with her arms in the air. When I came home and told El he said "we have to go to the airfield". 
Ok, so she goes running over to the pantry, pulls on the handle and makes noises that one might relate to a monkey! She wants a cookie..... They are organic and all natural, naturla sugar (still sugar, I know!), so we feel a little better, and we don't have any for breakfast:)
Little Ms. Emma decided she didn't need more than a 1/2 hour nap today!!!! Poor girl was CRAZY tired by 5:45 tonight. But earlier today she was a dancing queen - with the shakers that JEssica gave her - she just shook them as hard as she could and took off dancing. Notice the red Crystal Light mustache?
Ema was a disaster after breakfast the other morning, so I had her running around in just her diaper. Well, as I was folding clothes she was investigating them (As usual) and got my shirt on. I took a hair binder and tied a little knot in the back so she could wear it without tripping. 
Just a quick note as it's late.... Em's face is a little dirty in this picture from this evening - it is from the dirt she tasted. No good, I guess:) Another favorite past time is jumping on Cooper!
She was so dang cute! I KNOW I am biased, but she got a couple of "looks", and her instructor thought she was cute too. Em was being goofy, so I get it. In these pictures she just noticed that there was a whale on her swimsuit.
Em and I went to the Farmer's MArket in Everett yesterday. Wow! It was beautiful... On the marina, with a nice breeze blowing, a band playing, and lots of dogs for Emma to see:) She was so dang cute, I thought:) She had to see every dog first of all. Then when we were through the market we stopped to listen to the band playing. Well, of course Emma had to dance and she put on QUITE the show for her audience of strangers. Then she went over to this lady, I thought becasue she wanted to see her dog.... Well, no, Emma wanted one of her DORITO'S!!!!!!!! And of course the lady melted and gave Emma one! Good lord, she isn't shy. Then we were dancing some more and she went to give another lady (thank goodness she was a grandma too) her spit out, chewed up, Dorito pieces...... ANYWAY! We had a lovely time.
Em and I ventured to Snohomish yesterday (this adorabe little antiquing town about 5 minutes form us), and we found a toy store. Well, Emma found a stroller that she could push her baby in..... And Mom bought it (it had ballet shoes on it, how could I pass it up????). Well, we took it right out of the bag nad but her baby in it and she wheeled it right out of the store.
Today Emma and I were fortunate enough to get to visit with the Murphy's - Jessica, Ella, and Aliyah (Jess watched Emma this past year while I taught her daughter Ella at the Attic!). Jess suggested this beautiful park in Redmond (about 40 minutes south of here), with huge trees and trails, and horses, goats, pigs, bunnies, docks, and sheep. Oh good lord, the girls went crazy! It was such a wonderful visit as I just think the world of them. And it warmed my heart to see Emma go to Jessica and immediately want her to pick her up, and Aliyah was just as loving. Notice how tall and big Ms. Emma is? And Aliyah is two months older, with some height added in with that hair! 
so emma is seriously OBSESSED with the dog food (and the cat food for that matter). as soon as she hears the sound of the food being dumped into the food bowl, she comes running. thankfully Cooper is the least aggressive we've ever known - he is a teddy bear- so she can sit right there with him while he eats, and put her hands in the bowl to help herself. it is all natural dog food, but still. after she has started putting handfull sin her mouth, i have been shutting the door (he used to be in his kennel so she could only get a kernel or two! ). she just loves it so much! and loves the feeling of the food vs. the water. 
About 3pm today I was able to drag Elliott out of the house and head to the park with Cooper and Emma. We were all so glad we went (eve though it was HOT here). First you can see Emma walking with El and Cooper, and notice who is holding on to the leash - little Ms. Emma of course. She loves to walk Cooper and Roscoe. Inthe next picture you can see her reaching towards the sky (she does this whenever she hears an airplane now too - as we have an airfield behind out house so she hears them all the time) and there is a kite flying, and she was just dying to get to it! You can see her climbing up the slide with dad and swinging on the swings with me (it is often very hard to get her off the swing, and if you stop she with bounce her legs to tell you to keep going).
Well, if is official - our house is on the market! Now just send out all of your positive thoughts that it sells, and some time in the near future so we can all be together.
Em had her 15 month check-up today and she weighed in at 28 lbs. and 33 1/4 inches tall. She is literally off the charts, the percentile does not go that high, seriously......................
Little Ms. Emma was quite sassy tonight at Holly and JAson's annual 4th of July gathering! The poor girl was ready to falla sleep on our way over there, and then didn;t get to bed until 8:30. As a matter of fact, I left with her and she fell asleep not more than 2 minutes after we left thier house.
True happiness is riding in the car with dad!!!! How dang cute is that smile? El got that pic while they were on their way back from the dog park on saturday.
Dad jsut had to go get Emma pool! It was in the Upper 90's over the weekend and that is hot here with no air. Usually we can't keep her out of the water, but she only wanted to play in it for a little bit. She's gone in it a few times since, but just for a little bit (what is funny is that that first day the water was FREEZING and that is probably the day she spent the longest in there). The first day in the cold water she would sit down and just suck in her breath and then stand right back up - so funny!
