The Birkeland Family Blog

So do you think to yourself often, "I should have never taught you that"? I am kicking myself for teaching Emmi that GREEN means "GO", and RED means "STOP". Emmi is now in the backseat yelling at me "GO mama, GO, it's GREEN" or "STOP mama it's RED". At first it was considered cute, but now I find myself thinking it is rather annoying. Crap.....I created my own personal back seat driver.

Here is my little Easter Bunny. What a fun Easter weekend. Saturday we hit two egg hunts. Emmi was pretty reluctant to fight for her eggs. She would just stand and watch the other kids take them right from beneath her. I couldn't allow her to come home with nothing in her basket, so I would shove her in front of the eggs so no other kids could get to them. She came home with a smile and some eggs. On the other hand Brian took her out to find eggs at our neighborhood hunt. She came back from the pouring rain with one....yes....uno egg. He didn't help her or fight for her to come back with anything. Then, she opened the one egg to find a piece of hard bubble gum. She looked at me like..."where is the chocolate mom?" Yeah....daddy didn't care if she had nothing in her basket. His words, "she's two she doesn't care". That evening we went up to Grammy Jill's and dyed easter eggs. This year was probably the best eggs we ever dyed. Grandpa Ric got s...

Since the weather has been so crappy and now that that I feel like a beached whale I feel like we have camped out at home ALOT. Yeah.....I know poor Emmi. But I can say Emmi has improved tremendously on her independent play. Sometimes an hour has passed and she is still quietly playing. Her new things......"cooking", and playing "rock-a-bye-baby" with her babies. She learned this one from her dance class. She gets her baby in a blanket and she swings the baby back and forth and sings the whole song. Her little voice couldn't be any cuter and what's even more impressive is that she can carry the melody perfect. She loves to read her books by "self". And she LOVES playing in the bathroom sink water. She supposedly is "washing dishes" We have complete meltdowns when that game has to end. She loves listening to the Mama Mia soundtrack and playing the "color game". My homemade game that has been a favorite of hers. The potty is a ne...