Emmie Is 4

Emmie turned 4 on Saturday! I think she had a great day.  She woke up to Ainsley and Owen decorating the house for her.   They worked magic with the streamers this year!

 

That after noon we went to see Despicable Me 2.  It was the first time we had been to the movies as a family in a long time. Usually I take the kids when John is working.  It was a fun outing, and I love that our kids are old enough to do that! 

Then we came home and Emmie played just dance.  One of her few birthday requests.  We made pizza for dinner and then Family came over that night for cake and ice cream. 

If this next picture were a video you would see that after I lit Emmie's candles, I immediately blew them out as I was trying to blow out the match.  Emmie took it like a champ and patiently waited for me to light the candles again. Such a pleasant girl :) 

She waited so patiently to open her gifts all day.  And when the moment finally arrived she was a bit like a sugar deprived kid given an entire bag of Halloween candy. She went crazy! There was paper flying as she tore in to them, and I'm pleased to say she loved every one.  She was so excited it just made us all laugh.

She wore her new Tangled dress all night, and wanted to wear it to church.  We managed to convince her that it might be best to just wear it after church. Don't want to make everyone jealous after all!

Emmie is such a fun member of our family. 
She is silly and happy and tender hearted. 
She loves princesses, and candy.
Lately she's really into coloring and drawing.  And she is actually good quite good at it. 
She can write her name (although she still can't tell you a single letter!)
She also can't tell you how old she is if you ask her, she just asks me in a whisper voice and then she can tell you.
She loves cold cereal for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  (Rice Krispies, Honey Nut Cheerios, or rainbow cheerios-Fruit Loops, are her favorite.)
She wants to be a dragon when she grows up.
She loves to play barbies and Polly's.
Her best friends are Elsie, Susie, Molly, Brycen and Deacon.
She loves to sing.  She has several primary songs she sings loud and proud but my personal favorite is when the Cup Song comes on the radio and she is singing, "When I'm gone"  at the top of her lungs. 

Halloween!

Halloween this year was full of all kinds of crazy!  The cast of characters included....

A Ninja (Coal the black ninja from Ninjago to be exact)

A Witch

And a Fairy

We carved pumpkins like crazy knife carver people...

We trunk-or-treated (lame if you ask me, but the kids love it. Probably just because they love candy.)

 

We also partied in our respective classrooms...

And like any good mother of three I only took pictures of my youngest in her class party.  Ya, I'm cool like that.  The kids Halloween was full of candy parties, trick-or-treating (at John's work and around the neighborhood).  They got sooooo much candy.  Ains and Owen trick-or-treated for hours!  They even went out with the cool parents that drove their kids around after everyone was cold and tired.  I think they got a solid 3 hours of knocking on doors and getting candy.  We have candy that will last us until next Halloween for sure.  I've taken a lot of it away and put it in the freezer.  Mostly because I had to wash Owen's sheets due to the fact that they were covered in chocolate.  And that's when I said, "Enough is enough!!!"

Despicable ME

John and I went to a costume party this Halloween season.  Syd let me borrow her costume.  Can you guess who we were?  I thought it was pretty apparent that we were Gru and his minion....but one person thought I was a scarecrow.  Really?! 

Ainsley's Award

Ainsley recently won an award for her artwork.  Elementary school students in Meridian competed in an artwork competition put on by the fireman.  The kids were supposed to draw something that showed fire safety.  Ainsley worked on hers for one night at home...and then we promptly forgot about it.  And then we got an email.  She won first place in the fourth grade division.  Way to go Ains!

One of her best friends, Katherine, won second place.  It was quite the occasion.

And here is Ainsley with her teacher Mrs. Walker.