Sesame Street, Cake, Smiling and Crying

Yay Sesame Street! So last Thursday my cousin Taylor calls me really excited with some news that she had won tickets to Sesame Street Live by listening to the radio and guessing "Matt Damon's" voice correctly. Since she has no kids she thought of Emma and I. she goes Thursday evening to pick up the tickets and come to find out a Meet and Greet the characters came along with it. I told Emma what we were going to do right before we left. she thought we were going to see a movie with Elmo in it. She was excited. When we walked into the room to meet Elmo and Zoe you should have seen the look on her face. She was a little shocked at first, but excited non the less. this is what the stage looked like. The show was called Elmo's Healthy Heroes. Of course Cookie Monster was promoting eating vegetables. It was a good little show. Long, but good.

Emma is such a cute little girl. Everett was chilling with Elmo. They pretty much became good friends after that.

We invited Peter and his mom Suzie Harrison to come with us. Peter is so cute. He was so excited to go. we went to pick them up and he kept running to the door to see if we were there yet Suzie said. I am glad they got to go with us on such short notice.

Everett totally cheezin' it up. You can see his bottom teeth a little bit. He is now SEVEN months old. what a big boy. Oh, and he started crawling today. Not a whole lot. He is still getting the hang of it. It is so cute. He is so happy now that he can move.

This is how we normally see Emma with her arms loaded with stuffed animals. She calls them her babies.

So, today was such a beautiful day. The sun was shining, it was 84 degrees and I decided to get the pool out for Emma to play in. She gets in and all of a sudden she starts crying. For some reason she has decided to be scared of bugs. I am afraid that camping with this girl might be out. She is always asking me to shoo a fly away. Flys bite, but only when it is going to rain. Well, thise little tiny gnats kept getting in the pool and Emma was crying and making a big scene wanting me to pull them all out. No way was I going to do that. I tried to explain to her that the bugs wanted to play with her in the water and that it was okay. She wouldn't understand that they were dead. I eventually had enough of her freaking out and crying because the pool was getting more bugs in it, that i made her go inside and go to bed. I know I am a mean mom...

Oh well! Such is life. She is cute though. Her swimmin suit is definitely way too small for her now.

This is the kind of face I want to see. The other day she wanted to put a blanket on Zeke. She loves to torture him. He tolerates her. He just recently discovered that he can actually run away from her, even hide from her if he wants to. He is a silly cat. It is a love hate relationship with Zeke. There are times when he will crawl into bed with her and sleep at her feet, or he'll sprawl out and let her love on him until she starts pulling on his tail. I make Emma give him his treats so he has to love her. Ha ha!

So the other day word got out that I made a delicious cake for the cake auction. I received a call from a sister in the Relief Society Presidency asking me if I could make the cake for the Relief Society Birthday Party. I agreed and this is what I came up with. I know it doesn't look professional and by the time it got to the church building it started to sag. How lame is that. I wanted to put it in my fridge but there was no room. It was still good and people kept coming up to me and saying that it was the best cake they had ever had. I am glad that it turned out.