Not Me! Monday and the Night-time Librarian

• I did not read an entire James Patterson book in one day. You know, I have way too much to do around the house to read over 300 pages in a day. And it was not a great book that I thoroughly did not enjoy.

• We did not spend the weekend driving around town looking for The Wizard of Oz on DVD. Of course, we did not find it at a store in the mall 45 minutes away. And while we were up there, we did not stop by a great Italian restaurant and eat waaaay too much pasta and bread and mozzarella sticks.

• And we, of course, did not watch the Wizard of Oz after Emily's nap this afternoon. She wasn't so sure about the Wicked Witch and hopped into her Daddy's lap a couple times, but it was all good by the end of the movie.

• I did not win my first Blogger award this week from Lisa. I'm totally honored that she loves my blog and I loves hers too.
  

The Night-Time Librarian

After we put Emily to bed at night, she's been getting out of her bed and getting some books to "read" in bed. She drags her Cinderella light over into the bed with her and pages through all the books one at a time. Sometimes we can hear her in there reading to her dolls. So cute!

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Girls Weekend - Playing at the Park

Sunday morning, we went to the park for a walk and some play time.

Emily was getting leaves for everybody, one person at a time.
Here's a picture of Emily giving Stephen his leaf. We missed most of the other pictures because she kept going to the person who was trying to take pictures of her.
Stephen rode his bike over to the park.
Acting like a dork. Heather says I always have a stupid look on my face. Emily and Grandmother on the top of the jungle gym.Emily wanted to do all the activities at the play park.
What kid doesn't like to drive the steering wheel?And "hanging out"
And crawling on this ....
Seriously ... keep checking back. You are going to love some of the other pictures I have to post.

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Pictures from Girls Weekend

As I mentioned before, Emily and I spent the weekend with Heather (my sister), Stephen (my brother-in-law) and my Mom. I have so many pictures that I want to share, but it's going to take me a while to get them all posted. I'll try to post a few each night.

Here are a few for tonight ...

Heather and Emily on our shopping trip

Emily waiting outside the store. She rode in the stroller between stores, but got to get out and walk around inside the stores.
We ate lunch at Chick-fil-a. This is Emily licking one of the honey packets. :) Lovely parenting skills, right?

Stephen met us at the mall one evening for some shopping fun. He got some pennies from Heather so that he and Emily could throw them into the fountain. We were sure glad that Stephen showed up at the mall. He carried Emily all the way through the mall on the way out. Such a big help!

I asked Emily what was in the water and she said "Money!"Emily got to sleep on a Princess cot at the hotel. It was very cute and she liked sleeping there. The first night, she kept zipping and unzipping the sides. The second night, she was too tired to mess with it much.

Keep checking back for more pictures. I have lots more to share!!! You will not want to miss them!

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Not Me! Monday

I really can not believe that it's Monday again ... and you know what that means ... "Not Me!" Monday.

And just so you know, I certainly did not do these things even thought it may appear as if I did on this illustrated version of Not Me! Monday.

• I did not let my small child climb and spin around on my sister's coffee table. That would be just plain rude. Small children are NOT allowed to climb on the furniture and especially not in a loved one's home.

These photos are obviously just for demonstration purposes since this never happened. (And bonus points if you can see which football team we're rooting for in the photos below.)

• I also did NOT let my child eat Smarties practically all the way home from my sister's house yesterday. That's a 3 1/2 hour trip and that would be waaaaay too many Smarties for a child to eat. That would probably cause tummy aches and rotten teeth and who knows what else. I would never do something like that just to get a little peace and quiet in the car.

This photo is a representation of the amount of candy that was NOT eaten in my car yesterday.

• My husband did not clean the kitchen and fold three loads of laundry while we were gone this weekend! That would just be unbelievable so I'm sure it didn't really happen. Would that be super cool if it did happen?? Yes! (Thanks honey for doing all that work.)

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In case you were wondering, we had an awesome time this weekend. More details to come in this next post.

Happy Monday everyone!

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