Happy Halloween Everyone!

This morning I started off on a good foot by making Mommy happy wearing a shirt expressing my love for her. Nana had bought it for me when she was in town last and told me to save for when I needed brownie points.

For my first Halloween, my Mommy thought it would be funny to dress me up like a hot dog and as you can see from the photos below my Daddy thought it would be funny to pretend like he was eating me (see photo # 3). Needless-to-say, Daddy needs help :-). At 6 pm tonight our subdivision had a parade of costumes. This parade involves all the children from our neighborhood, grilled hot dogs (no I didn't know this advance otherwise I would have selected another costume), a graveyard with fog, and lots of candy. It was a great time and a chance to meet our neighbors. I thought for sure that I would be the only hot dog but as it turns out, there was a dog that was dressed in a hot dog costume too. Great minds think alike I guess! We didn't stay that long because I started to get tired and was ready for my bath, book, bed and bottle. However, while Daddy helped me get ready for bed, I could hear all of my neighbor friends come to our door yelling "trick or treat". Mommy handed out handfuls of candy while admiring all of the fun and unique costumes. Boy, I can't wait until I'm big enough to go trick or treating.... FREE CANDY, what a great gig!

Well, that's all for now. I've got to get my beauty rest as tomorrow we're heading for a nice drive along Skyline drive in the Shenandoah National Park. I'm sure I'll have photos of the beautiful fall foliage so be sure to check my blog later this weekend.

Love,
Emerson

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

Every year in the first week of December since 2004, my parents have been schlepping out to Germantown,MD for their Christmas tree at Butler's Orchard. This year was the first year that we went to visit their pumpkin patch. My Mom bribed my Aunt Anne into coming as well and we had a blast. There were sooooo many pumpkins.... big ones, little ones, white ones, green ones and of course orange ones. My Mom just loves this time of year and in fact Aunt Cookie and Nana Banana will tell you that the first sign of the weather changing from Summer to Fall, my Mom calls and sings "It's the most wonderful time of the year". It's no secret that Mom's a little nutty but I'll keep her around for entertainment purposes.

Halloween will be here soon and I can't wait! I'm already starting to prepare by watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown".

Love,
Emerson

A Day to Remember!

On Sunday, October 12th I went before the Episcopal church for my baptism. I was dressed in white and my Mom said that since I am such a pretty boy, it's hard to tell whether I'm a girl or boy. Luckily, the dress only lasted an hour and then I was back to my overalls! Again my folks forgot their camera so thank goodness for Aunt Cheeks and Aunt Cookie (Aunt Cookie is the Godmother) for sending along their photos. My Godfather was my uncle Scott, whom by the way is really cool and like my Aunt Cheeks, has great fingers to chew on. I'll have to send more photos of my Godfather and Godmother along later once my parents get their act together with the camera :-).

Anyways, the ceremony was really nice except that I was a little uncomfortable and tried to squirm my way out of The Reverend Judith Harris Proctor arms but all was good. Afterwards, we all headed back to my house for a brunch and more of the "pass the baby" game. It was lots of fun and I'm so excited to be a new member of our church!

Love,
Emerson

We are Family

It's no secret that this weekend I had lots of visitors from Oklahoma, Texas and North Carolina. Most of my family came not just to visit but to see me get baptized this past Sunday. Many of my family members that came, I got to meet for the very first time. I wish that I could have more pictures below but my Mom and Dad were so excited to see our extended family that they forgot to take photos so what you see below are from photos that my Mom begged them to send from their cameras :-).

The first picture below is of my Aunt Mandy but I call her Aunt Cheeks.... they are great to slobber and bite on. The next photo is of my cool cousin Isaac although you might confuse him for a girl below...lol. The last photo is of my Nana Banana... she's really cool and funny too.

I got lots of attention and at one time I thought for sure the name of the game was "pass the baby". I sure hope that they come back real soon so that we can play some more.

Love,
Emerson

Daddy's not allowed to play with me anymore..........

because if he does, I may turn out to be an alcoholic by age 2. Here I am below determined to get my Dad's beer! Check me out.

A Real Ladies Man!

Oh how I love the ladies! Everywhere I go it seems that there are so many pretty women that it makes it hard to choose which one I favor the most. Mom had taken me shopping along with Auntie Michelle to Loehmann's a while back. For those of you that don't know about Loehmann's, it is where my Mom says that she could live and survive if ever a natural disaster were to strike. I personally didn't see what all the fuss is about. HOWEVER, there is one perk for little guys such as myself. You see, Loehmann's does not have individual dressing rooms, just one large room for the ladies to try on clothes. Well, let's just say, it was the happiest that I had been that entire day. All I had to do was smile really big, laugh and wink and all the ladies in the community dressing room ate it up. That's right folks, I know how to work it! Mom and Auntie Michelle laughed and Auntie Michelle leaned over and said, "live it up kid, because you could probably ride this gravy train until you're about 3 years old". A few shops later, I was still going strong. I had seven (yes, that's right seven) ladies surrounding my stroller taking turns at playing with my cheeks. Dad agrees with Auntie Michelle, I have a limited window in which I can take advantage of all this female attention. It was a great day and I sure hope that future shopping trips are this much fun!

Love,
Emerson

P.S. I've got two bottom teeth coming which means that BBQ is not too far off :-).