Is the video quality poor? Yes. I shot it with a blackberry. But, this evening as I was searching for a replacement size shirt my 2-1/2 year old daughter at Macy's, I caught the beginning of the end on film. I guess "mall time" with GiGi and Mommy is going to have to be strictly limited going forward.
I think the best thing is watching her check the tags to see if its a) her size or b) in her price range (which without Daddy is $0)... As the random lady that caught the tail end of this live in the store said to me, "Aren't you in trouble." Yes I am...Oh yes, I am...
Maybe next week I can catch a video of her swiping a credit card for payment which she mysteriously knows how to do and why to do it. I'm not laying blame, but I have my hunches...
And then did some party cruisin on Lannie and Boppa's boat. Sippy cups for everyone.
This is how she looked when we got her back...
She pulled through for a pool party with Gigi and Pops the next day. This year she is pretty much scared of NOTHING. She did the water slide by herself about 425 times and wanted to "let me do it myself" in her floaty. She tired in jump in and do the gigantic water slide. Mom had to take her to meet the lifeguard so that she would understand WHY she had to get out of the pool when they blow the whistle. She wasn't buying the Gigi explanation.
After a waterfight with Pops,
She climbed in a lawnchair, snapped her fingers for a juicebox and sighed "I need my bit bit."
The Memorial Day Princess was officially pooped! 
It was all a little too much for Sam. She got a full belly and took a little snooze.
The most interesting thing that happened is that Abby taught Emmy how to "properly" pee in a swimsuit (according to Abby.) Lovely. I almost got a picture of it, but figured that might be a little too graphic. Forget the casual, low key approach, we now have a stance that leaves little to the imagination! Should make for an interesting summer at the pool!
Evidence of a REALLY fun party- mouth WIDE open. 
Happy Birthday Jackson!
They couldn't get enough of the water and the sand. Caroline decided to weat this tiara the entire day at the beach. It didn't come off her head.
Kim's husband Scott is a doctor, so we told Emmy that Dr. Watson was coming. Since our dogs names are Watson and Bogey she said" Yes and Dr. Bogey is coming too." 
The only breaks Emmy took were to make Collin push them around on the four wheeler
and to harass Lauren's poor great dane Jandy. She would get up in her face and ask him if he wanted to bounce. You can guess that she, of course, did not want to. She politely tried to just walk away, but Emmy followed her whereever she went. Another person that just didn't want to bounce was Kate. She just wasn't feeling it. 
Here's the big birthday girl with her Mommy and Daddy.
We had a great time relaxing at Laruen's house and getting the chance to chat 
while we made the boys watch the girls. AH... so nice. =) (But see they were still happy!)
and Mother's day. Sadly, these are the only pictures at any of the mother's day celebrations. 
Well let me rephrase that. She was VERY excited about the jelly beans, and that's about it. I don't want to think about how much candy she ate in the past two days.
After our late night return for the Beach we vowed to get up and get to the 8:30 service at church and we TOTALLY did it! Awesome that the service started at 8. grrr. We sat through the sermon and one hymn and it was over. I personally need to sing "Christ the Lord has Risen Today" at chruch to make it "ofically" Easter, so we decided to wait for the next service at 9:30. Megan, Keith, and the kids came to that service as well, so we had time to grab a few pics before it started.
and the kids busted a few confetti eggs
Emmy's new thing is jumping off things. We have to count to three and she jumps. And then we repeat 57 times.
She also has her first "zuchinni" as we call it. toooooo hollywood. 
We had a ton of leftover shrimp and french fries left over from lunch so we decided to take them to the birds. Usually there's one or two. The entire flock showed up! They were almost swooping low enough to take fries out of Emmy's hand. She was having so much fun her mouth was WIDE open the entire time. Life lesson #1: When feeding seagulls, keep your MOUTH SHUT! Thank goodness we didn't have to go for the mouthwash.
An Easter Egg hunt.
And we even managed to squeeze in some Easter Egg Dying. Emmy was about to fall asleep in the eggs, but she managed to dye them, decorate them, and even randomly smash one with her head before she dozed off .
