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 :-).

I can't get no satisfaction........

So, Mom dressed me today in this cool Rolling Stones T-Shirt. All the girls at daycare thought I was cool too.

Today before leaving for Pasai's Mom tricked me into crawling (really it's more like doing the worm than an actual crawl...just ask my Dad) by putting the remote control for me to reach..... I definitely am all male!

Love,
Emerson

Moving on up.......

Hello everyone, today Mom and Dad took me to see Dr. Sideridis at 7 am for my 6 month wellness check. We almost didn't get to see Dr. Sideridis since the front office messed up my appointment and didn't show me at all. The lady up front said that she would put us with another doctor but you know Dad.... consistency is key and besides he really likes Dr. Sideridis. Dad asked if they would reimburse them $10 since if the shoe was on the other foot they would have no problem charging us. In the end, it came down to Mom's bribery with the brownies that she had made for Dr. Sideridis's sweet tooth. The brownies encouraged the front lady feel sorry for us and squeezed us in (Mom's sales skills really helped us out here... either that or it was a good game of "good cop, bad cop" that helped). Dr. Sideridis was so nice when he came into our patient room and Mom and Dad were very thankful to him.

SO.... I'm moving on up.... in weight class and percentiles that is! My stats now show that I have a 17 1/4 inch head (48 percentile), 27 1/2 inches tall (75 percentile) and a weight of 18 lbs 12.8 ounces (70 percentile).

As always, I love hanging out with Dr. Sideridis.... he even let me play with his stethoscope so this time I decided not to pee on him :-). Of course the nurse came in with five shots and while I didn't feel the first one, I sure felt the last four!

I hope that none of you have to get any shots anytime soon and have a doctor as cool as mine!

Love,
Emerson