Our Birthday Adventures...

You know those days you can look back at and just laugh at them?? Well, I can't quite laugh about this one yet :). I'm sure this post will make other people laugh, however.

Emma turned 2 years old yesterday! She has grown so much over the past year. She is starting to use sentences and definitely understands now that she has a choice in many things and voices that opinion. She is learning and soaking in so much around her and it's fun to be able to actually communicate with her. I love her so much!!!

Certain parts of her birthday, however, I didn't love so much :).

We woke up in the morning and took a video of her coming down the stairs to discover her new slide! I wanted to get something that we could put in the basement for the winter for her to play on and then take outside next summer. She LOVED it! Here is a video:



After she played on her slide, we opened lots of presents from mom and dad (books and a fake make-up kit- she's already such a girl!). And some presents from Grandma and Grandpa Close- a train set and a princess purse that had many items but her absolute favorite- a pink phone! She was a happy girl!







Then the real fun began...
Emma had been sick the couple days before and of course on her birthday (just like last year. I hope it's not an annual thing!). I had put off shopping the day before because she was sick, but I couldn't put it off any more. And after all Emma just had a cough and runny nose...what's the worse that could happen? So we shopped and after about 20 minutes she started coughing...and she wouldn't stop. I had water for her, but that didn't help. She coughed and coughed and I knew it wasn't going to be good. So I grabbed the little zip-lock baggie of cereal I had in my purse just in time to catch all the throw-up. She coughed so hard she threw up over and over everything she had eaten that morning. The best part is the way everyone looks at you while passing by. And then I didn't have anywhere to throw it away at the moment so I took it with me to checkout :). Shopping time was DEFINITELY finished!

The rest of the day went pretty good. Emma had lots of fun playing with her new slide and toys. And then when I was exhausted from the day (which I am most all the time nowadays) we watched a movie together on the couch. At night, we had pizza and then Cade had to leave. Before he left he asked if I would call back a good friend from Arizona who left birthday wishes for Emma. So I was talking to him in the front room while Emma was playing by herself. Unfortunately the call ended when I walked into the kitchen to discover Emma drawing ALL OVER our white fridge with PERMANENT marker!!! I was SOOO upset! But Mommy and Daddy write on a white board with black marker, so why was this any different? Needless to say, the birthday did not end very good.



Well, the ironic thing (Cade pointed out) is that this happened THE DAY of her 2nd birthday...does this mean the terrible 2's have officially begun?? I sure hope that's not the case :). Emma is a sweet, very happy little girl. I'm sure there will be moments in the future that I will want to pull my hair out and fall asleep crying, but for the most part, life with Emma is SO wonderful and happy and I don't know what I would do without her in my life! And here we are going again...baby girl #2 will be here any day or week now and we're excited to add more children to the Close family!

Happy Birthday Emma! Your dad and I love you very much!