Been Busy: A story of hope and enduring memories

Prologue
As I am sure you can tell, Emma has been a busy little girl. Between the red carpet events, fashion debuts, and prune luncheons she has had little time to actually tell the world what she has been up to. There have been moments of fun and moments of boring but mainly the time has been awesome with happy sprinkles. So, now on to the story everyone has been waiting for!

Chapter 1
It all started a few weeks ago when Emma got to participate in one of those classic growing-up-but-you-hope-doesn't-turn-out-like-what-happened-to-Elizabeth-Shoe experiences of having a babysitter! Paige Trostel was happy to do the honors as she and Emma became bestest of friends on October 24th, the day of Christine and Karl's wedding....

Wedding you say? Yes it was awesome and mommy and daddy enjoyed themselves and there was much festivities with the rejoicing and dancing and much feasting on the fruits and fruitbats and sloths and orangoutangs and all that fancy stuff that kids do nowadays during that time of a wedding.

Emma cared not for these activities as she was having party time while her parents were away, yay! Daddy will worry more about these moments as Emma gets older. In fact he has prepared a graph to illustrate:

The evening went quite well and then we all fell asleep.

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Chapter 2
It was a dark and scary night and Emma decided to descend (in all of her cuteness) upon a group of unsuspecting (ok, they knew...) band of mommy and daddy's friends as Emma donned her awe-inspiring lady bug outfit. This was Emma's first Halloween!

The types of parties that Emma attends are top notch, ok folks? She did not settle to go to any ole party nay, she attended one of Tatiana's super-fun-over-the-top parties in downtown Austin. There were ghosts and goblins, Smara (from the Ring,....I know I was scared too), and Santa Claus! SPOOKY!

Yes, Emma knocked out her first pictures with Santa at the party as well so she would like everyone to know that she won't be sending any Santa photos this year and in return would like you to send money. Thanks!

The party was fun to say the least. There was even halloween sushi with colored rice. That's right, halloween sushi. Emma demands the best.

Chapter 3
The next day, BeBe and Grandaddy Jeff invited Emma and her parents to come see them in their B&B in Salado. High end shopping and down right kick-you-in-the-face good cooking were the order of the day. Emma enjoyed playing at the cabin and swinging on the porch. She even got a chance to play on a playground for the first time. Her granddaddy caught her playing.

Daddy did too:

Thinking back Emma would have to say that her favorite part was getting to play not with the new clothes that BeBe got her, but with the paper that they came in....

Chapter 4
Once Emma had had a chance to see her northern grand parents she figured that she might as well send daddy to California, to get him out of the way, and then get mommy to take a week vacation to Corpus Christi to see the southern grandparents. Now Emma is enjoying a relaxing week there.

You may contact her through her agent (aka mommy)

THE END

(Sing to the ending credits of Star Wars)
duh nah duh nah duh nah, DUH DUH DUH daaaaaa DAAAAA duh duh duh DAAAAA DA duh duh duh DAAAA DA duh duh duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

Prunes!!

Emma just ate her first container of prunes, I am surprised at how

much she likes them!!

EMMA PUMPKIN FALL LINE UP

Experience.

Wonder.

Like.

Never.

Before.


EMMA PUMPKIN FALL LINE UP

See what critics say is revolutionizing the pumpkin industry

"Viewing these photos changed my perspective"
"Beauty unimaginable"
"My God, that is a large flower"

Little Book Worm

Emma loves her Halloween book, especially all the fun noises it makes
thanks BeBe!!

Are we there yet?

Stephen got tired so Emma drove the last leg of the trip home!

Emma hearts technology

Like father like daughter

Special Delivery!

Today Emma got a package from her BeBe! It was very exciting, and Emma
was so thrilled she immediatley put an outfit on and insisted that mom
take her to the mall to show off. On the way home she fell asleep in
the car from all the excitement.

Emma's first doll!

Emma had dinner with her friend Madelyn last night.
Madelyn just turned one so Emma loves to see all that Madelyn can do!
Emma loved her tiny purse and cell phone, but when Madelyn showed Emma her baby doll Emma got so excited she was shaking!!

So of course after dinner was over GeGe went across the street to Toys R Us and bought Emma her first baby. As you can see Emma loves it!!

Lunch Time!

We tried baby food again today, here is Emma having her first taste of

bannanas

MMMMM?

Time of Sweet Potatoes

Better!

Emma recommends the following savory spirits to compliment these meals:

*Enfamil Formula, prepared medium to mildly warm

*Pedialite, chilled

Squash!

Emma had her first jar of squash tonight, needless to say she did not

finish it!

EWWWWWW

Peggy loves Emma

Check out her post from her visit last weekend. Quite the photographer:

STILL can't get enough of...Emma!

Stroller

It was finally a little cooler this morning so Emma, Maggie and I went
to get the mail. Look how big she is sitting in her stroller without
the carseat!

Re-living the early days

There are momentous videos out there in the world that capture a glimpse of events that truely change the course of humanity.


Emma has her own

I love hanging with my Grandparents

Look at how wonderful I am playing on my mat in Dallas. Thanks to Aunty Morgan's incredible skills of a photographer for my picture awesomeness!

I love playing

So there is no way that Emma was going to keep this a secret:

She's wears her socks to play

Stay classy Emma, stay classy

Eating like a big girl

Last week Emma decided that she wanted to try out this whole eating cereal bit just to see what the hype was all about.......

Needless to say she just doesn't understand why anyone would want to go through the extra effort of holding spoons and aiming for your mouth when she could easily sit back and get Mommy or Daddy to feed her a bottle.

She also doesn't understand why everything is so funny when the food was obviously SOOO bad!

Rock and Roll

Emma was in Corpus Christi this last week for those that didn't get the memo. Her father was away in California working on a project so she said that she wasn't going to just sit around the house and thus packed her mom up and headed south.

While down there she got a chance to catch up with a few of her favorite Grandparents and Uncle as well as many friends.

One of the coolest things that she did while away was nothing short of:

LEVEL UP!

That's right, Emma totally figured out the whole rolling to the stomach maneuver. Mommy was quick enough to catch it on video:

SHHHH Don't tell Emma she lost half of her hair in the process! That would just upset her. And you know what happens when Emma gets upset.......

Poker Face!

Read 'em and weep ladies!!

Swimming

After a good swim at the pool I like to retreat back to my cabana in style!

I get so tired in the pool I enjoy a little nap on the way back!

Bumbo!

Emma is sitting up so well she can finally use her bumbo chair!!