Zachary's Birthday

We made a weekend trip to Atlanta for Zachary's birthday at the end of January--Em had a great time playing with her cousins and seeing her grandparents and uncles. 

She had some piano practice time with Grandma.

And enjoyed a "second Christmas" since we didn't all get together for Christmas this year.  The age difference between Zachary, Landon and Em is becoming a little more apparent as they get more and more into video games and big boy things--she still wants to play kids' games, but they're pretty patient with her, and can always find compromises with wrestling or pillow fights :).

Games! Games! Games!

On the weekends, Em starts asking if we can play games almost the minute she gets up in the morning.  I found some clearance games at Target after Christmas including this one called Who Shook Hook?  We have played it probably 200 times now, and Em was excited to show it to Grandma and Papa when they were here.

It's actually a pretty fun game--I much prefer it over some of her other favorites :).

 Em has gotten pretty skillful at it too!

 Puzzles are another favorite, and I'm always happy to do these with her because I love them too!

Time Off

We really enjoyed our down time over the holidays--I was off for a 5-day weekend at Christmas and then another 4-day weekend for the New Year, so we got productive.  I've been wanting to paint the dining room, and Em of course wanted to help, tiara and all!

She did a pretty good job until she got bored with it, and then I was left with the rest while she went off to play :).

Later that day, we decided we had worked hard enough, and went for pedicures!

Em loved that the water was her favorite color (blue) and she felt like such a big girl!  At one point, the lady told her to just sit back and relax, and Em said "I could just stay here forever!"  This is only the second time I've ever taken her, so I'm not too worried about starting a bad habit :).