Christmas Photo Extravaganza!

 

Merry Christmas!

 

 

Emma Clare-The Little Angel!

 

 

Daddy wanted to by this for EC...Mommy was mean and said no (where in the world we would we put that thing in our house?!)

 

 

Emma Clare's old day care teacher made her this hat for the move to Cleveland!

 

 

EC loves her dog from Grandma Pat!

 

 

Look at that belly!!

 

 

No big deal, just eating ice cream. Thank you Aunt Ali! (EC also ate the most at the dinner table...which is why she got dessert. She tried everything-and like it!)

 

 

Loving her new elephant from great-godmother Joanne!

 

 

Emma Clare's friend Paige let her borrow her princess crown!

 

 

Grocery Shopping-a Christmas Eve tradition!

 

 

Who turned out the lights?

 

 

To say that we were blessed this Christmas would be an understatement. We were so happy to have Chris' mom here and be able to spend Christmas with our friends Dan and Ali and their kids. We wished that we got to see all of our family and friends! Emma Clare had a great Christmas. She had so much fun opening presents and playing with all of her new toys. She was all smiles all day. She had lots of yummy foods at Christmas Dinner (yams with maple glaze, green beans, mac and cheese...oh and ice cream). She was a great dinner guest and sat quietly and ate everything on her plate. What a little doll!

 

We look forward to see everyone as we head back to Cleveland in the new year! :) 

Merry Christmas (a little early!)

 Just Chilling in my blue jeans!

Getting ready to get my Christmas photos taken!

 

 

 

Have I mentioned lately how cute Emma Clare is. She just makes me smile more and more each day. This weekend we had her Christmas photos taken (if you are really interested, you can check them out at searsphoto.com session #125213 password CJPGZ). She did such a good job, she is such a ham.

 

In other exciting news...we are headed back to Cleveland! I will be starting a new position at BW as a housing coordinator. I start on January 3rd. Chris will be joining us at the end of his school year (maybe before, we'll see.).

 

Lots of changes, but we are very blessed! 



Park!

This weekend we got to see our dear friends Nichole and August (and daughter Sophia). We all spent some time at the park. EC loves the swing and she went down the slide for the first time (with mom). Please try to ignore the scratch and bruise on her face...she is learning how to stand and took a bit of a tumble earlier. She is so stinking cute!

Feeding Myself!

Aww look at my little baby! This morning while I was getting ready, EC decided that she was ready to be awake. Daycare keeps telling me that EC feeds herself all the time (but she is just my little baby, so I never just give her the bottle at home). We'll I thought I'd give it a whirl. And she did it! Made my morning routine a lot easier, but I still don't know if I like it! This little girl is just growing up too fast! She's crawling, pulling up, feeding herself cheerios and other table foods and bottles! Where is my little baby!! I just love her to pieces though! :)

Happy Monday

Just Chillin', eating some Cheerios.

 

Man, this is hard work!

 

Oh, hey Lou, why are you all the way up there?

 

Don't you want to play?

 

Got ya!!

 

 

We had a fun weekend! We went to Paige's 4th birthday party-and there was a ball pit, EC was in love! I'm so glad our little girl is feeling better! We are on another round of antibiotics for her ear infections, and she is scheduled to get tubes in her ears on December 27th (Merry Christmas!)

 

 

As you can see from the pictures, Emma Clare is loving Cheerios and Lou Lou. Now that she can pull her self up, poor Lou has no place to hide. Emma Clare just loves pulling on this floppy ears! Good thing Lou Lou is a good sport about it! 









Happy Thanksgiving!

Baby girl LOVES the Christmas Tree (oh, and Lou Lou).

Uncle Adam and Emma Clare on a train ride!

Christmas card? Yes, that is Chris and I in the same pair of shorts...

 

 

 

So much to be thankful for this year! Look at our beautiful little girl, what is not to love! We had a great Thanksgiving with Grandma Claudia and Uncle Adam. Chris made bacon wrapped Turkey-it was to die for! And now that Thanksgiving is finally over (not to knock the holiday-but it is just no my fav-everything you make for dinner is like half eaten already-mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce. When can we get a holiday where we can just eat pizza and pasta and egg rolls? That would be my kind of holiday...) Christmas is in full bloom! Our tree is up, Emma Clare has seen Santa-and LOVED him (I'll scan the picture in soon) and you better believe that we are listening to nonstop Christmas music in the Mullen's house! WAHOOOO!

In other news-Emma Clare has another tooth! Yay! Now that it has finally popped through, we are all hoping for a little more sleep. I can't remember when she slept for more than 3 hours in a row...momma needs so sleep BAD. Good think she is such a love bug!!

Oh, and for your viewing pleasure...I think Uncle Adam may enjoyed it more than Emma Clare!

 

 



Snack Time!

She is just the cutest! Here is Emma Clare enjoying snack time (who wouldn't want baby mum mums and water?) She is still trying to figure out the sippy cup, I think maybe 1 or 2 drops of water actually got into her mouth.

Emma Clare had a little bit of a rough weekend-we think teething-and did not sleep well Friday or Saturday night (so mommy and daddy are a little bit sleepy...). We are all getting so excited for Thanksgiving and Emma Clare cannot wait to see Grandma Claudia and Uncle Adam on Wednesday!