she likes to move it move it

E loves to dance and while we were in Tampa I took her the new children's museum. On the second floor they have a mini disco where you can select songs and go crazy, as she likes to say. They have a very limited selection of songs but Emma really enjoyed MC Hammer's Cant Touch This and the Safety Dance.
She went b a n a n a s!

Book of the week-Where's Walrus

Where's Walrus by Stephen Savage is another brilliant wordless book that I feel children and adults will love. Its simple, yet bold and retro illustrations will surely engage the smallest of readers as they try to find a walrus that has escaped from the zoo. A fun play with the Where's Waldo books, here the Walrus is easy to find; but children will be amused as they watch the walrus try and elude the zoo keeper by attempting to blend into each situation with a mere change of his hat. Hilarious and highly interactive, this story is sweet and sure to entertain all.
Side note, E loves Say Hello to Zorro and has given it her stamp of approval.

M.I.A

Yes Ive been slacking but not because i want to. I have been sick and still am. I have a terrible head cold/allergies? I will probably go to doctor tomorrow to figure out what is going on. Anyway, I will post my book of the week later today. Sorry for the delay.

Easter push pops

These are just too cute and easy to make, I guess the main thing would be finding the push pop containers. You could just clean out ones that you buy at the supermarket. When I find a link to the containers I will post but for now check the how to at Love from the Oven.

disc a what?

Emma strikes her blue steel pose as she works the scale

yep, this was my morning. I'm sick, my throat, nose and ears are killing me and I was up every two hours in pain. But I woke up at 630 and managed to get myself out of bed and on the 8 o'clock train into the city for her 2.5 year checkup. E was a nut at the doctors, I mean she was probably on her worst behavior ever! She had been up since 5am and just went all crazy chimp on me. Shaking her head, ripping the paper, jumping up and down. It is embarrassing when your doctor makes "those" eyes at your child, and we all know what "those" eyes are. I kept hearing the word discipline this morning and I feel as if it seems that I let Emma run a muck. I have tried disciplining her, spanking, threats, taking her favorite things aways but nothing instills fear in her. So I need to read more books and try a chart and promise her rewards such as stickers or tatoos, as if that will help. I wish someone would listen to me but apparently she is too young to diagnose anything and I just have to keep disciplining her, as well as socialize her and put her in dance classes. MMM, sounds so easy, right?!

sing a song a six pence

Emma really loves to sing. I mean she will sing with so much passion you can't help but laugh. She gets so physical and emotional. I fear I see a little budding artist in her. (Must steer her towards medicine and/or law.) Anyway, she loves to sing these songs in Spanish that I pretty much had to memorize in one night so I could sing her to sleep. She would request these songs and I had no idea what she was talking about until Connie showed me all the songs she had been singing with Emma during the day. In a way I feel cheated and bummed that someone else ignited the love of music in Emma, but I'm really grateful she did because I am not a singer. I don't even know the lyrics to Twinkle Twinkle, (well, now I do) so to have someone open my eyes to how important music is to a child, I am grateful.Emma's favorites are Pin Pon, Cucu, Sol Solicito,Rain Rain and Twinkle Little Star. She is too much and made my mom and dad really happy. Funny how one little being can inject life back into someone who has almost given up. Emma is handful but I'm madly in love with her.

Logan and Emma

this is my favorite pic of the two of them

matching shoes

They are like siblings, one minute they cant stand each other, the next they only want to be with one another. She misses him and I miss having family so close. Easter is coming soon and we are all ready for a week back home!