Emily's Visit

Dear Abigial,

I am pretty sure we've had more visitors than not since we've moved into our new house. But all the more fun, right?! On Thursday afternoon, Mimi came to visit and surprised you with Emily and Katie! And I do mean surprise. When she got here, you actually were asleep on the couch (yes, we'll take a nap anywhere at this point!) but were just waking up. Mimi asked you to help her with her bags upstairs as Emily came and sat on the couch. When you walked down the stairs, there she was, sitting there. You just stopped and sat on the bottom stair. Didn't say anything. Didn't do anything. Just sat. Finally Daddy called you over and you became VERY shy and cuddled with Daddy. It was all very odd, indeed, but I'd say within, oh, 5 minutes, you were bouncing (literally) off the walls showing Em your new house! You guys played, and actually played "clean up". Em can come whenever she wants if she keeps playing that game!! We all ate dinner and it was time for bed. You are having issues with what bed you want to sleep in, so after a bit of a battle, you crashed in Mimi's bed. Mean Mommy made you get up and go to school on Friday, but that was because Mimi was going to get her hair done and we were having a party on Saturday morning (and evening!) and I had to finish cleaning the house, even though Emily did an excellent job on the playroom. But, good news is Mimi and Em picked you up from school! Bad news was it was right when you guys were celebrating Miss Whitney's birthday, more importantly right when you were given a cupcake with a cookie on top of it!!! So your teachers were nice enough to send you home with it. I don't know why, because the second you got home you and Mimi and Em made more cupcakes in her cupcake maker!!! However, you apparently snatched that cookie off the top of the cupcake before Mimi could see. She even yelled at Emily for eating it but it was you! Man alive you've turned into nothing but a sweet tooth!!! Such a contrast from a year ago! After making cupcakes, the 2 of you burned some energy (i.e. sugar overload) on the trampoline and even played hide and seek. At one point Emily ran into the house and said "Has anyone seen Abby?" and Mimi and Mommy COMPLETELY flipped out! We didn't realize y'all were playing hide and seek, and apparently you were just right in the back yard but we immediately put some major ground rules for playing outside with Emily! Shhheez, that scared us! It is nothing for you to just run off, hide a mile down the street, laughing the whole time!

After a few more minutes outside, we brought you in and got ready for Mexican. Mexican was a whole other experience because you and Ellie were on the end with no adult on either side of you. Made for an interesting night, no doubt, including your entire glass of milk falling on the ground underneath you. Thankfully there were 2 random ladies sitting behind y'all that were more than willing to help when you threw something, or spilled your milk! We all assumed they must work at a day care. I'm pretty sure I would have left! The 2 of you were pretty entertained for a while though because Ellie brought you a stuffed animal to play with. All this time we thought we needed to stick electronics in your face (i.e. iphones/ipads) to keep you entertained, but nope, just a giraffe for you and a bunny for Ellie! We'll see if that works next time! Em was being entertained by the phone, but we let her because she just got her braces on Monday and poor Em couldn't eat chips at dip at Mexican! Ugh, that's tough. She did let her chips soak a while in the dip, but it still didn't do the trick. I think the peanut butter cups i bought her seemed to make up for it!

On Saturday morning, we woke up and immediately started getting ready for Mommy's clothing party. Mommy decided to host a party for little kids clothes so all her friends came over AND most of their children, so you had a BLAST playing with all of them, including Ryan and Ellie! Miss Auburn came and you were immediately disappointed that Chloe wasn't here but Ryan was quick to point out that there WAS a Chloe here, just not the one you wanted to see!!! You guys played and played and played and DESTROYED the playroom but it sure was fun. After the party, you and Em continued to play and appeared downstairs as Buzz and Woody...

Later you appeared downstairs in a diaper!! Yes, a diaper. Apparently you guys were playing house and you were the baby and Emily found a size 5 diaper in Kate's closet (saved from when you were wearing them). It was quite the funny scene, you in a diaper, and you got a kick out of it too! You and Em and Mimi tried resting and watching the Chipmunks and Mommy and big Katie when to the store, and I'm pretty sure you were still in that diaper when I got home!!! And did not rest, to say the least. Who needs rest when your cousin's in town?! And who stops at just one cousin! That's right, around 5:30-6, Aunt Amy and Uncle Martin came over and brought Caroline! It was Uncle Martin's big 4-0 and all the adults were going to a nice dinner but first having appetizers at our house. Aunt Amy couldn't find a sitter for Caroline so Mimi again was a rock star and said she'd watch her. Keep in mind Mimi was ALSO watching you and Kate and Em AND Ellie!! That's right, again! Aunt Steph and Uncle Jaybee joined the adults and let Ellie stay with all the cousins! What a BLAST you guys had. We were here for most of it and we even put you youngins to bed before we left. Ellie didn't get to spend the night, but Caroline did and the next morning you and Em and Caro played and played and played AND all 3 of you appeared pantless with diapers on!!! Talk about a sight to see!!! A 9 year old, a 7 year old and a 3 year old in diapers. You girls are silly. And also destroyed your sisters closet, which I later found out... Everyone left later that morning after a yummy breakfast and when everyone left you immediately said "Who's going to play with me now?" You were VERY sad, so Mommy played with you. I bet it wasn't quite the same as all your cousins, though!

An AWESOME weekend for you, and now we're going to relax this week and get ready for the next one! No doubt we have a trend for 2012 - FUN FUN FUN! Love you!!!!