Birdie Breeze....

After a half an hour of tossing and turning with excitedness, removal of all covers from his bed, and destroying his bedside shelf, Emerson has finally succumb to sleep.....I hope this position is really restful for him as it IS the night before his 1st day of kindergarten! (Notice that the fan is strategically placed to provide for maximum coolness.)

Meet the Teacher

Today I got to go to school to meet my new teacher for 2nd grade, Mrs. Suda. I even brought my Poppop Suter in to show him around. My new classroom is D-4 which is just before the kindergarten wing where Emerson will be. I brought in my school supplies and put them in my own desk! Mrs. Suda seems really nice and she is the teacher I was really hoping for so I think this is going to be a great year! Emerson's kindergarten teacher is Mrs. Gilman in room K-4. She wasn't in her classroom when we came to visit, but we dropped off his school supplies anyway. Em got to look around and he even found his cubby along the wall and his name on a froggy on the classroom door. He's so excited to ride the school bus with me on the 1st day, September 1st. Since Mom isn't sure if Emerson is going to let her drive him to school on the first day, she decided to take these pictures of us while she could.

Angels??

We may look like it, but we can certainly get into our fair share of trouble. These are great pics that Aunt Jessy had taken of us with our cousin Trey when we stayed with her over vacation.

National Air & Space Museum

On the way home from NC after vacation, we stopped overnight at Mommom Lois' house. She is always so good to us! She had so many yummy treats and little surprises for us. She gave us these little wooden airplanes that we got to (throw to each other)fly in her backyard. Can you believe Dad is actually the one that got one of the planes stuck on the roof?! Mr Moore even had to get the ladder out to rescue it!

In the morning, even though we didn't get enough of a visit, we headed home to CT with a pit stop in Washington, D.C. to see the National Air & Space Museum. It was pretty cool to see all of the airplanes and space stuff, but when I was looking in the bathroom of the 747, Emerson headbutted my nose and I was no longer a happy camper. Dad bought us tickets to see the movie about how stars are made in the planetarium theater. Em thought that was pretty cool, but I was still in a funk and the motion of the movie made me feel a little weird. The one thing that did pep me back up was leaving to get ice cream from the stand out front of the museum. Mom says maybe next time we'll try the Natural History Museum instead.

Mom & Dad's KID-FREE 10th Anniversary Vacation

This year is Mom & Dad's 10th Anniversary on 9-9-10 so they took a trip to celebrate to St. Barth's in the French West Indies. I'm not sure what the big deal is about going without me and Emerson, but I'm sure they had a good time anyway. Here are a few pics they wanted me to share from their trip.

3rd Time's a Charm??

This year is Mom & Dad's 10th wedding anniversary so they booked a special vacation to St. Barth's in the Caribbean and we weren't allowed to go. Em and I were ok with that though because we got to stay with Aunt Jessy, Uncle Carl, and Trey for a whole week! They even took us to a water park! Mom and Dad called us a couple of times while they were away and I talked a little, but Emerson didn't want to talk at all because he was too busy playing. What a relief that was to Mommy!

All was going according to plan during the week until I had a bike accident with Trey. We were down at Trey's Nana's house a couple houses down from his house. We were both riding bikes, but Trey was on one that he wasn't used to that had hand brakes that he didn't really know how to use. We both came flying around a corner straight into each other. I tried to swerve to miss him and so did he, but to no avail. I'm not sure what I hit my nose on (because, as I told my mom on the phone while she was still in St Barth's) because I closed my eyes as we collided. Anyway, Uncle Drew was there and he says he heard me start yelling "I'm BLEEDING!". As soon as they saw me they knew I'd be headed for the ER and my 3rd set of stitches. Aunt Jessy and Uncle Drew took me over to Onslow Memorial Hospital's new ER (mom thinks I just like trying out ER's every where I go) at around 9pm on Saturday night. It was pretty busy in there and we didn't end up leaving until after 7am! They paged the plastic surgeon who never answered and so the doctor in the ER decided to stitch me up himself. They gave me some medicine (propofol-- for conscious sedation) and I went to sleep. When I woke up I had 6 stitches in my nose. As we were leaving the hospital I called my mom in St. Barth's to tell her I was ok. I told her, "Mom...this was the best hospital visit and vacation EVER!" She said, "Really??? Why???" to which I replied, "because I got FREE socks, a FREE bracelet, and I don't even remember getting my stitches because they put me to sleep!!" Boy, was she relieved when she got my call! That afternoon, Uncle Carl and Aunt Jessy tried to remind me to "take it easy" so I wouldn't bust open my nose again. Poppop even came over and brought me a mask just like the one from the scary movie "Jason". He told me I should wear it when Mommy got back so I wouldn't scare her.

It's been about 3 weeks now since I got my stitches and Mom and Dad say my nose is healing nicely. I have to let them put a cream called Mederma on it 3x a day and I also have to wear a lot of sunscreen on it or wear a hat (or both!). Most of my uncles just keep telling me that "chicks dig scars" so I don't really know what the big deal is. Mom also keeps telling me that my lesson in life from this is to "STOP LEADING WITH MY HEAD!" (as a reminder, I have now had stitches in my chin, my head, and my nose)

Fortunately, Aunt Jessy and Uncle Carl are allowing us to come back to celebrate Christmas with them this year. Hope they've started resting up!! Thanks Aunt Jessy and Uncle Carl, for letting us stay the week with you!! And thanks Uncle Drew and Poppop for helping out with us! Best (hospital trip &) Vacation Ever!!