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Here is Emma on December 1st. We had bought her this Fisher Price nativity last year, after Christmas. It has been hiding under HER OWN BED all year long! Waiting for this day to arrive. It celebrates her 18 months of life and kicks off the Christmas season. (she was 24.5 pounds and 33.5 inches)
You can press down on the angel and it plays a Christmas carol. She likes that!
Think she likes it??? Or is just a ham? Probably a bit of both!
Nana had also given her an Advent calendar filled with little pcs. of chocolate. She has had very little candy of any kind, so this was something new and special!
Let em tell you, she has her Daddy's sweet tooth for sure! She very quickly caught on to the opening of a new window each day and remembered to ask for "chockie"!! I removed a picture from her wall and hung it on the wall. Easy to see, for us to get to but not at her reach.
It didn't take her too long to figure out which one was the "mama" and the baby ("de-de", as she can't pronounce a B sound yet)
Her Nativity all set up. Such a cute little thing! Although it was not created by a Jewish designer. How do I know that, you ask? It has a pink pig!! What in the world does a pig have to do with the Nativity story? Or with Jewish life and culture??? Odd.
Later that morning we went out to water the garden and Miss Emma decided to water herself! Funny isn't it that it is warm enough here to wear shorts and not worry about getting soaking wet in December??? (But then a month later we were at freezing temps!!)
She's trying to be helpful! But, mostly just getting into the water...
My Sugar Snap Peas. I planted them in late October maybe, not realizing that they didn't really like to be transplanted... So, I had to replant most of them and they are just now beginning to produce.
I have 3 rows of radishes planted! More than I can use probably! We have given some to Mom & Dad. Offered them to the neighbors but they didn't seem too interested. I don't care to just bite into one, but I do enjoy them in a salad. They have all come form one packet of seeds, but they are red, pinkish red and even some purple ones. Round, oval, oblong... Weird. Tasty, but odd.
Thanksgiving 2009- at Mom & Dad's. We were ready early to make sure we got some family photos.... Well, at least we got some group shots that included the grandparents.. Sometime later we realized that we didn't finish them photo taking!!
We were all so happy to have another Thanksgiving with Grandma AND Grandpa Delamarter! He certainly gave us a scare the month or so prior to this!
Grandpa & Grandma with 2 of their kids. Ruth and Philip. Like Dad's beard???
Grandma was just so thrilled to have him home with her!
We brought Emma's table with us, so the girls could have their own place to sit. They had more fun playing than eating.
The whole clan gathered around Mom & Dad's table. We each made a dish or two, of course and dinner was soooo good! Mom had her dining room decorated so lovely.
Halie having a bite of 'birt-day" cake. Any cake is birthday cake and her Meemaw made this one.
The desserts: custard pie-Grandma, Oreo Cake- Gina, Caramel Apple Pie- Gina, Pumpkin Pie & Tart Cherry Pie- Mom, Pumpkin Cheesecake- Dee Dee.
Playing Corn Hole. This is Bob & Gina's set. Robert & Steph have their won and Martin also has his own. Someone brings at least one set to about any big family function.
HA HA!! This "looks" like she is lifting her leg to do something very unladylike... BUT, really it was a re-do of her happy dance after winning! :)
The girls had a great time playing in the yard during Corn Hole.
Here we are, the Lovejoy's. Emma is such a doll!
We forgot to take the rest of the family photos until the end of the evening!
Mom and Dad. Dad is looking a bit like Santa's brother. He has never had a full beard! He started a goatee/mustache, but Mom told him "no way! All or nothing. No Colonel Sanders". 
Papaw & Nana with 2 of the cutest granddaughters ever! OK, the other two are cute too. :)
The Cantrell's: Bob & Gina, Robert, Stephanie & Halie.
We spent the night at Nana & Papaw's, so that we could stay up late and play games. AND so we could get up kinda early and got shopping on Black Friday! Nana was reading books to Emma before bedtime.
Here is the academy marching band doing their thing in those heavy soaking wet uniforms!
Their float. Not sure what it was supposed to mean....
Kids Kickin' For Christ carried on .doing their thing in the rain as well.
The water soaked Emma.... They got a free shirt, beach ball and lots of soggy candy, which had to be pitched. We were spending the evening, so she had jammies in her bag to change into at Nana's.
After the parade, the girls got dry clothes and had a nap at Nana's. Nana had a gift for each for them. She had bought them snowglobes. They were plastic and had a little fan in the back that made the fake snow blow around. The girls loved them!
Emma played with hers all during December! It had an easy button to push so that the lights came on, the snow blew around and it played a Christmas carol.
We all went to the Singing Christmas Tree that evening to end our very full day together. Whew!
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