Swim Lessons

Emmie started her ISR refresh swim lessons last week and has been doing really good. She's learning how to swim to the side and pull herself up vs. just floating. We will get some video this Friday to share but for now you get a post swimming picture...

Want free prints and photo books?

I just joined a site called ArtsCow (www.ArtsCow.com) and new members get a ton of free prints and like 3 - 8x8 photo books. I'm addicted to photo books, they make great gifts for the grandparents and even great-grandparents. I also read they are a great way to store you kids art projects, take a digital picture of the art and then have it printed in the book, that way you can keep their master pieces on display without all the originals :-)
Anyway if you are interested here's a referral link that will get you started http://www.artscow.com/?Ref=582383
Also if you entered "FREE5BOOK" you get 5 more free photo books.
You do have to pay shipping but it seems reasonable.
I haven't ordered anything yet, once I do I'll let you know how they compare to Shutterfly (my favorite site for photo books to date).

Happy Birthday Great Grandma

Last week was Great Grandma's 92nd Birthday. We all went to Austin to celebrate. We also went to the Zilker Kite Festival. We had a great time, here are a few pictures of everyone enjoying the party and festival.

Emmie's New Wheels

Today I splurged and got Emmie a battery powered riding toy. I guess I’m living vicariously through her but I think it’s a cool toy. She doesn’t seem to get the grasp of it as she keeps pushing it instead of riding it. Here’s some video of her on it (we had to tape down the go button). Her Uncle Austin and Auntie Dani stopped by on their way back to Austin and helped put it together.

Catching Up

January was a busy month; we are way behind on our blog updates. So here's the January recap...We celebrated Pamma and Auntie Erin's Birthdays, Pamma & Grandpa Larry's and Granny & G-daddy's Anniversary's (43 & 38 years). Our nanny Maria had her little boy (Ian) and both mom & baby are doing well. Emmie’s walking like a pro and getting into everything. She’s so fast too!!! She’s not really saying any words but understands bye, ball & dog. Works been busy with the additional role but I'll try to be better about staying up to date after this week.

Playing with a purple frog that's always by Lala's front door.

Emmie & Pepper looking out her bedroom window.

Sharing snacks with Pepper.

Bath time is still one of Emmie's favorite times. She especially likes running & dancing around in her birthday suit after her bath.

Emmie loves running off into our room to play on our bed and loves to try to type on the computer.

...and here she's just being silly!!