I'm a model...

I had the illustrious Melissa Baxter take Ember's pictures when we were visiting my family a few weeks ago. They turned out fantastic. Hope you enjoy them.

Another Update (Finally)

Ember has learned all sorts of things lately, like how to pose for the camera...
Where her tongue is...
What a tractor is (she also knows the difference between an excavator and a backhoe- but that is another story)...
How to climb in the laundry basket...
How to get what you want at any moment...
How to pop some wheel-ees...
How to ride a4-wheeler and look awesome while doing it...
How to sing some Beatles...
and how to ride a tricycle. Along with a myriad of other things that I can't remember. She is such a cute girl and we love having her around.

A Cornucopia of Pictures

This is what I got for Mother's day. Aren't they so pretty. I really do like tulips.
This is my resident ducky. Ember LOVES ducks lately. She carries her duck around with her and she had a dream last night about her ducky towel. She says quack quack quite well for a year and a half if I do say so myself.
She loves climbing on the rocks outside.
And loves getting into anything...trouble is her specialty. She has been singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star quite a bit lately, but she only gets about a third of the words. I don't usually let her eat and watch TV but I was trying to get her to hold still while she was singing so I could get it on camera. She will sing on her own too. She has been saying This little piggy... too, but the only words she gets are "Market...Home...Wee Wee Wee"

Happy Easter

We had a fun Easter weekend. On Saturday we met up with Ember's cousins and went to an Easter egg hunt at a nearby park. Despite them saying there were 6000 eggs, we only got three total. Ember didn't care one wit. It was much more fun to her to play on the slide. We did score this sweet picture with the Easter bunny though. Not one of us is looking at the camera. I think the woman in the background in the pink dress is hilarious. I couldn't look that bored if I tried.
The slides were a lot of fun. Ember loves the slides and swings.

On Easter morning she got a healthy breakfast of beans and chicken. Too bad they were Jelly beans and a chocolate chicken. Am I a bad Mom?
This is Ember's Easter dress. We didn't get a great picture of it so we might have to do a mock photo shoot later. She looked pretty cute, but then again, when doesn't she?
After so much excitement she had a nice long nap with her bum in the air. She was completely tuckered out. That afternoon we went to Josh's parents and played with some of her other cousins. I didn't get any pictures of that, but she had a great time.
The Easter bunny was good to us this year.

How does our garden grow...

This is mainly for Josh who wants to see how our garden is doing. We built some planter boxes and are growing tomatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, brussel sprouts, green onions, squash, zucchini, corn, peppers, carrots, spinach, lettuce, eggplant, various herbs, broccoli and cauliflower. We used the "Square Foot Gardening" book which has worked great for us beginners. It has been a lot of fun.We have something growing in our carrots and I don't know what it is. It looks like some sort of squash or maybe lettuce. It is on the far left in the second square back. I am just going to let it grow and see what becomes of it.