TODAY is a great day.

Emily is 7 today.
So 7 facts or things I love about Emily.

She has got the blondest hair of all the kids.  It was whitish for a while.
She plays with her ears when she is tired.  She has done this since she was a baby and still does it as she is falling asleep.  She even has a little bend in her ear where she loves to rub it best.

She has a great imagination and loves to pretend still (although at less degrees) with her little sister.

She is the only one of my 5 that I went into labor on my own with.  I had this dream of the "perfect birth" without any drugs, but the first two were started with and not quite what I had imagined.  With Emily I walked into the hospital at abo pitocin ut 5:30 at 6cm.  I walked around the room for as long as I could and at 9cm I laid down and had her within 20 minutes.  They immediately placed her on my chest and covered us with warm blankets.  She looked up at me for the longest time, like she was trying to take me in.  It was an instant bond.

She is very observant and will often stare at something when she is trying to figure it out (including people.)

She has a shoe fetish and loves dress up walk walks.

But she is very picky about how things fit and when she was younger we would have to duck tape the velcro shoes closed because they didn't close tight enough for her.

  

Happy Birthday Emily. 

I love you!

G*ogle Calendar

I have been trying several different calendars(cozi, ical and google) to become a better CEO of my family.  And the winner is Google.  It is so easy to add things.  I have different calendars for each family member that show up on one calendar (that way each person is a different color).  It emails me however long before the calendared item I want it to, to remind me.  I can share it with Grandma's etc so they know when and where all the activities are. And I can easily print each week and stick it in my binder.  It works great for me.

HOLY COW

I still get a little freaked out by people talking to themselves at the grocery store (phones in ears).  Imagine this!

Neglected

The title for this post does not refer to this blog...although it certainly could, nor does it refer to the boy above, my tooth growing, sweet little side appendage.

Instead it refers to this:

You may be neglecting your iron if when you go to use it you smear a spider across the first item you iron, because he has taken up residency inside.

Sea of Blue

My Grandma's Favorite color was a turquoise/aqua blue color.  She was rarely seen without wearing some shade of it.  Her closet was painted that color and her home was furnished in it.  In honor of her we wore that color to her funeral.  The men all wore ties that color and some even took them off and laid them on the coffin in her honor.  My uncle found this coffin in absolutely the perfect color. It was beautiful.  There was seriously a sea of blue as we gathered around.

Quick.

He got a hold of the brownie before I could stop him.