Time to purge again

Emerson's first shaved ice at Big T's on Hope Mills lake.

Riding with spidey man

A visit from her bestie Mace moo

So maybe I didn't really think this through....

3 kids with finger paint...a fun crafty project to keep them entertained right?!!

Wrong. I'm so guilty of not really thinking my project through....It was really a disaster of epic proportions.

Dear daddy

I had a blast with you this weekend. I hoped the days were so long that it felt like you were here a while. I love having you home and already can't wait to see you again..I wanted to thank you for taking me to the Dogwood festival and the fair....it was the most fun I've ever had. I'll never forget being able to hold your hand, share your popcorn and nachos, going on the rides and helping me win some stuffed animals mom warned us she didn't want us to bring home!
I want to wake up to you every morning and fall asleep with you every night. Come home soon Daddy.
Love,
Em-boogie

Our first ER visit

Yes. It was bound to happen, and if we are trying to find some positive..I should be appreciative that we were able to go 2 + years with a clean record!
Basically...I had a bottle of hydroxycut in a suitcase a friend had given me on a trip to visit her over 6 months ago. She tried it, felt like crap and asked if I wanted to give it a whirl...maybe?!! So I stuck it in the bag and there it stayed. While I was getting dressed to run to the store, Emerson was in my closet. I heard the shake of the pill bottle.... but at that time her annoyingly chirpy plastic chick with hard candy inside came to mind. See this chicks head bobbles and it chirps incessantly for 3 minutes at a time...enough to make you want to drop kick it off a bridge like baxter...and the candy also comes out his little rear(cute yet sick). Anyways I stuck said Easter mistake onto a shelf in my closet, and assumed she found it. I had detached his poor head to prevent creepy late night outbursts, and thought that's why he wasn't making noises. I told her she could bring him out and he could ride in the car with us. She pops out with the hydroxycut bottle in hand...the lid is MIA an she has pill chunks in her mouth.
I dropped to my knees jammed my finger in her mouth..made her spit..washed out her mouth..then dumped the remaining pills...Counted them, then read the label on the bottle conforming that it came with 60 annnnnd we only had 43!
I rang my girlfriend to see if she remembered how many she would have taken...and she couldn't. Next call was to poison control, they didn't seem too worried just advised I monitor her till bed time.
My mom-dar wouldn't turn off...so we went to Womack. Her heart rate was 122BPM...and she was all over the place, it was now 11PM. How do you control a toddler who ate caffeine pills designed for adults?! At least she entertained the night staff as she peeked under and around the curtains..sometimes while doing a headstand other times with gloves on.
I let her run amuck. Whatever! Dr. Saw us and checked her heart rate again..gave another call to poison control to confirm the time for I'll effects had passed and we were discharged at 1AM...Emerson was still awake......but finally fell asleep on the ride home :)

Em bunny!

We had a pretty Easter day complete with candy...egg hunts..pretty dresses and I may have mentioned this one already, candy.
Em ended up joining me in bed the night before so she woke up and found her basket at 6AM, before I was even awake! She's pretty stealthy...
I did however wake up to my two year old holding a giant lollipop screaming "candy mama!" beside my bed. So that was pretty cute.
We did all the usual Easter festivities, and made it through the day without daddy.

7 days of iphone pics

Reading her St.Patricks day card from Great Aunt Ann-Mo!

Here we go again. I admitted previously to taking a copious amount of pictures...I have an obsession, her name is Emerson, and  my life is just what happens around her.

Playing in the bradford pear tree flowers that have taken over my  driveway life.

Spreading more weeds for mom! I'm pretty sure
the picture proves I have plenty already.

Morning Daddy!! Breakfast time.



Play time with her cousins. She LOVES these boys.



She works hard for the money.



Roasting marshmellows with Papa...one of their
"things".



What daddy is REALLY up to while
he is away.

Seeeeee daddy!!

Bathtime for my silly face.

No words needed!

This just about sums it up!

A wee bit Irish

It was another St.Paddy's day spent together for our little Irish family. We headed out to lunch with my parents, and Shane's Aunt Donna. It was nice to spend some time with them, since I like to hoard my hubby when he's home for a limited time. We headed to the park afterwards but it was so hot we only stayed for about 20 minutes... but it was plenty of time for Emerson to do her most favorite thing..swing :)

And of course lets not forget our comparison photos from previous St. Paddy's Day's!





2010



2011

A completely random post

So I'm guilty of taking tons of iPhone pictures. I seldom whip out my digital camera or even my video camera..(yes I said it..I still own one of those!) both relatively new too. I can always trust having my phone within arms reach to capture those moments so why bother remembering anything else?! Problem is..I have all of these pictures and nothing to do with them..some make it to FB..some make it in messages to my husband..but for the most part they sit in my camera roll unseen by anyone but me. So today I'm going to spew them all over my blog. I should really do the "My week in iPhone pics" but I ALWAYS forget. I want Emerson to be able to look back at this blog one day and say "HEY! I've never seen that picture of me before"....so today mission accomplished.