Gramps and Grams came to visit this weekend!

My mom and dad came to hang out with us for the weekend. We spent most of the day playing in the living room floor today... except for a lunch trip to Leatherby's Family Creamery.
Gramps let Em play with his cell phone. Lots of fun, but then alligator tears when he took it away. Oh the emotional highs and lows of toddler life.
Grams brought her this blue sparkly glitter bouncy ball. The blue glittery liquid is on the inside. It's hard to put into words how very cool it is! You'd have to see it to believe it! :)

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

Emily likes to read Dr. Seuss to Bridger while he's curled up in his bed.
If he gets sleepy before she is done, she helps him hold his eyes open.
Emily says if you read it upside down and backwards there are secret messages.
Here she shows us her favorite page.

15 months old today!

Do you ever take 50 pictures in one evening... hoping to get few good ones, and then love them all so much that you can't bear to erase any of them??

She's very into climbing these days. And boxes abound around these parts.
Toothy grin

Any time Scott sits on the floor Emily comes right over and sits with him. Bridger saw an opportunity to taste Scott's white grape juice, and went for it before anyone noticed. But the camera doesn't lie.
Emily is enjoying being tall enough to scope out what is on the table and the coutertops and then choose something that looks fun.... in this case, Daddy's sunglasses.

Apple Hill, fun in the orchards

We had a great time at Apple Hill on Saturday, eating caramel apples, picking apples, and smelling yummy apple treats baking. It was COLD, but beautiful and fun! Elly helped Emily pick apples, and Katie and Elly helped her walk a bit.
The husband of our lovely photographer decided to stick an apple picker pole into our family picture. :)
She got the wild man under control and took another one.
It was a nice crisp day with nice crisp apples!

Last week we went for a walk and got to enjoy this beautiful rainbow. Of course it was more vivid in person, but you can imagine the scope of it from this pic. We didn't even have to walk in rain to enjoy it!
Some friends came over this weekend and Emily got to watch CARS with them. I was surprised to see her quit playing with her toys and going to join them on her own initiative.