Daddy's Little Girl

On the flip side of the previous post, Emma loves her girly things, but she is also attached to some of daddy's tools. We were recently working in her bedroom and she found his "bammer" and got a kick out of his drill:

She got frighteningly good at it:

Our little handy helper!

In my world...

I have officially decided that pregnant women should not have to A: get colds and B: drop things. I mean, whose idea was that? Make a woman clumsy during the time when her bulging belly makes it near impossible to bend down without hurting herself!? No fair. And after spending the last four days with a cold, I think pregnant women should be immune since we are already sacrificing so much to bring a baby into the world and we can't take cold medicine. Gip.

My poor child has suffered this week as well. Not only has she not felt well, but her mother hasn't felt well. Poor thing. I have been a little neglectful as most of the time I have simply been trying to make it through the day without passing out lacking the ability to breathe! It was lucky she had her wings to pacify her. She wore them from the time she woke up to the time she went to bed for the two days I was down. My little orphan angel!

"Mom, I'm a beautiful butterfly."

"Mom, I'm a beautiful fairy."

"Mom, I'm a beautiful princesses (she always pluralizes that one)."

Now that I am feeling somewhat better, I have had enough coherence to take the winter boots away. "Boots are for winter, when it is cold." I tell her. Now she talks about bundling up: "When the trees are cold they need to put their boots on, their jacket on and zip it up."

Not a sound from the pavement...

I got this fun idea off of my friend Tara's blog. I left a memory on hers, so I guess I better participate:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you have of either Matt, Sarah or Emma. It doesn't matter how well you know us, anything you remember will be fun!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

Stay-cationing

Stay-cationing: noun (American The Travel Channel) a period of time devoted to pleasure all within the same vicinity in which a person resides.

So, a couple of Tuesdays ago, we decided to finally use our get in free cards to Lagoon (thank you Miss Farmington Pageant) and spend a day at the local theme park. We did have to pay for Emma, so as you would guess, the majority of the day was spent making sure we got our money's worth for her. And, boy, did she ever. Her first ride was the Merry-Go-Round, because she has has some experience with that one (note in the picture above it was also baby female fetus' first ride on a Merry-Go-Round!). We were a little apprehensive about the other rides because the last time we put her on something (the blue slides at Cherry Hill) she did a classic Gunn anxiety freak out and we didn't want that happening again. However, elation was the emotion of the day as she rode every single kiddie ride in the park, even the ones that made her a little nervous. She was very grateful for Daddy's arm on the Ladybug Drop (she is slightly scared of heights) and she wasn't so thrilled with the Odysea ride (turns out the anxiety is over getting splashed with water more than rides and slides), but overall I am pretty sure Lagoon Day was the best day of her little life so far.

As for the parents, well, we were honestly just thrilled making Emma happy and mommy couldn't ride much anyway due to the bun in the oven. Daddy got his kicks on the Skycoaster (thank you Dan) and Wicked. That was about it. Overall it was a great day and we will be sure to continue to annual Lagoon Day tradition until our kids grow out of it!!

Na na

Guess what....didn't post because I lost the camera cord - now I am posting because I found the camera cord. Familiar story. Just assume that every time I go forever without posting it has something to do with losing something related to the camera.

So, post one:

Emma's new trick has been to sing to her toys that play music. Here is a sampling:

I find it absolutely hilarious. Hope you enjoyed it too!

Sarah

"It was fast..."

Hey everyone it's Matt, I'm a virgin blogger, but I wanted to talk about my cool Father's Day present from Sarah. I was enrolled in the Miller Sports Park racing school. We spent all morning fighting traffic and construction to get out there. We got there just as they were finishing the classroom racing instruction in time to hear the instructor say "Alright let's go race". They took us out to the race-modified 300+ horse power Ford Mustangs. The cars were equipped with racing brakes, suspension, exhaust, intake, and some more go fast bits (lightwieght flywheels, short shifter, limited slip differential ect. R-compound tires). They were really loud and really torquey. I must admit that they were fastest cars I've ever driven or ridden in.

We all jumped in a 12 person econoliner van and went around the track twice in the van with a race instructor driving to show us our "lines" they also had cones set up at the "apex". The first lap was really slow, but the second lap was the fastest cornering I hope I ever experience in a van filled with ELEVEN people. The spectators were pretty surprised when we whipped down the front straight faster than freeway speed and hit the corner with the tires squeeling in objection. In the back seat we were whispering things like "shouldn't we be wearing helmets?" or "shouldn't there be a roll bar in this van?" I'm not usually one to get scared about speed, but I was a little uncomfortable driving that fast in a econo-van.

So after that, we threw on our helmets and got buckled into the race cars. The group split into two and we raced on the east track (the fun side). Everyone keeps asking "how fast did you go?" it's not about straight line speed, it's about cornering speed. We were going 100+ mph, but it's how fast we ripped around the corners that was impressive. The mustangs handled really well with the super grippy tires and the extra stiff suspension, and they were so torque we rarely had to shift.

The racing was set up as follow the leader, no passing, we took turns being number two in line. The instructor said "if you can keep up I'll speed up" so when it was my turn in the number two spot I decided to get on the instructors tail and push him to go faster. We were ripping around the course at probably 90%. Sarah watched from the tower and overheard them radio in "you better slow it down everyone else is three turns behind you". After it was over I was thinking I would have liked to go "all out" for a couple laps, which is what they did next. We did two "hot laps" with the race instructors driving and holding on for dear life in the passenger seat racing against the other instructor. It was a blast. Life long dream of going to race school - "check." Next on the list: drift school ;)

We went to the zoo zoo zoo.

We have been very lucky to do some exciting things this summer! Yesterday, Matt took us to the zoo! It was fun to take Emma when she could name the animals correctly instead of calling everything a dog, which drew a lot of laughs on her last visit. We went pretty early in the day, so we saw some exciting action - Emma almost being attacked by a gorilla three times her size:

And we got to see some crazy animal hatching from an egg:

We wore ourselves out pretty quick, but we were lucky in beating the crowds and getting our money's worth. Emma would tell you that her favorite part was riding the new merry-go-round and playing in the playground. Mom and Dad's favorite part was the big long nap they took when they got home!