Mammaw's 75th Birthday

We got together at Dan's parents' house for Mammaw's birthday. Here is Emma and her cousin Macy playing, and them with their Great Grandma (Mammaw).
They had a blast together & also with another little girl that was there.

Emma Enjoying School

Emma's teacher sent me some pictures of her at school...
Looks like she's loving it!

Emma's first field trip

We met some of Emma's class at Cranbrook to go through the museum and see One World, One Sky: Big Bird's adventure in the Planetarium. Emma was pretty tired through the whole thing (no nap), but she did enjoy herself. I hadn't been there since I was a kid on a field trip... things sure do look different as an adult.

Enjoy the pictures!

Excited & ready to go!

She wrote her name (perfectly, might I add) on paper with lemon juice... we were supposed to bake it it the oven for it to show up (invisible ink)... but it didn't really turn out. 

She's got the whole world in her hands... 

Grrrr

Our little scientist

Scary dinosaur!

First Day of Preschool

Today was Emma's first day of Preschool. We put her in a Christian based Preschool/Daycare facility in Auburn Hills... Riverkids: http://www.riverkids.org/

She was a little shy when we dropped her off, but after about an hour, her teacher, Francie, said she was acting as if she's been there for a while.

The kids have been learning about the stars, so Emma has her first field trip this Saturday to see One World, One Sky; Big Bird's Adventure at the planetarium.
 http://science.cranbrook.edu/explore-the-institute/planetarium/educational/big-bird 
We're excited and can't wait to share how it went!

 There goes my little girl...

She also got her big girl bed this past weekend. She LOVES it. A lot of growing up all in one week.

More Christmas pictures

More Christmas photos!!

Chicago

This past weekend we went to Chicago with Dan's parents. We spent the weekend hanging out with his sister Anna & some other family for his cousin Joan's wedding reception. We had a BLAST! Friday we drove down and spent the afternoon/evening at Christkindlemarket. The weather was perfect & we had lots of laughs & enjoyed walking around downtown for a while.
Saturday Dan, his parents & I went to the Frank Lloyd Wright tour while Emma hung out with Aunt Anna at the library. We enjoyed the FLW tour very much - this guy was a brilliant architect. Next time we go to Chicago we hope the weather will be better to do the walking tour (it rained, otherwise we would've done it while we were there). After that, we went back to the hotel for Emma to nap and for us to have some down time. Then we headed over to Joan's in-laws place for their party. After the party we went back to the hotel and watched tv, played cards & Emma colored with Grandpa.
Sunday we dropped Anna back off at home and headed back to the mitten.
The more time I spend with my in-laws the more convinced I am that I have the best :-)

                                                                 First train ride!

                                                                    Macy's window display

                                  The city in a scaled model at the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

                                                              Our little monkeys!