Thanksgiving feast

my little Indian!

We missed Christian and Gran

Emory and Daddy had some great conversation!

Emory kept looking at her table saying "mine" (her new favorite word- ugh!), so we went over to where her class was sitting to visit. She loves her teachers!

Friday was Christian and Emory's Thanksgiving feast at their school. My parents came up late Thursday night so they could join them in the celebration. All 6 of us were going to go and sit together with CC's class. Well, CC woke up around 2:00 am with a fever and felt horrible. She felt so bad, that she asked to stay home! So Gran stayed with her while Papaw, Daddy, and I went to eat with Emory. Since it was the day of, we couldn't get moved back to eat with Emory's class, so we sat with CC's class to eat. It was a great time eating with my baby girl and meeting more of Christian's friends in her class. Even though CC missed the feast, we brought back all of her crafts from the week, and it made her happy to hear that her friends missed her at school too!

school pics

Miss Priss!

MY FAVORITE!!!!!!

Here are some of the proofs of the girls' school pictures. Aren't they great!?

My Gran

My beautiful Gran passed away one year ago today. Isn't she gorgeous? We all think about her daily, tell stories about her whenever we are together, and all miss her terribly.

HAVE YOU EVER.....

seen a CUTER ponytail? or for that matter- a CUTER belly?

She was so excited to show her daddy her new ponytail!

she spilled her drink, so she decide she didn't need a shirt

I can't think of a better way to end a day at work!

She laughed and twirled, laughed and twirled for about a 2 minutes to show daddy her ponytail.

WAR 'CAM" EAGLE!

Before heading to Auburn Saturday morning, we got together with our great friends, the Ashford's, for dinner. They are expecting their fourth baby in 2 weeks!!! They didn't find out what they are having, so we are all SO excited to find out! Either way, it will be beautiful.

Then Saturday, we woke up and headed towards Auburn for the AU/UGA game! We were so excited. My parents met us there to pick up the girls. We went to one of Bryan's client's tailgate first.

Then headed to meet Angela and Stephen who were so nice to give us two tickets to the game! (THANKS SO MUCH!) Angela and I immediately headed to Tiger Walk to see the team walk by.

great picture, huh?!

check out my shirt! I bought it at a gas station on the way down....it's complete with orange and blue rhinestones! I love it!

The guys played corn hole (of course!)

and acted like they were 21 again!

Angela and I posed in front of a huge Auburn RV! How much fun would it be to drive down to every game in this!

The weather was perfect and so were the seats. I, of course, don't care about football at all and don't really understand what is happening. but it is still fun to be in the stadium with 86,000 other Auburn fans!

We had 4th quarter passes to go up to Angela's family's box. We ate, drank, and watched the game in style! It was even more fun to be up there watching Cam Newton and all the other players jump the fence to run into the stands when we won. Almost the entire stadium stuck around for about 30-45 minutes afterwards just celebrating.

Angela's step mom Patsy made these mask for Sophia and Elise. Well, some girl took one of them. When Patsy found out she ran after the girl and made her return it. Angela and I were laughing hysterically!

We had THE BEST TIME in Auburn this weekend! Thanks Angela and Stephen for a fun day! The day couldn't have been any better. Now, I need a weekend to recover!

Our day in Atlanta

WARNING: lots of pictures......

The girls could have stayed in the tunnel the entire time looking at all the fish

We even ran into our friends who had the same idea as we did!

Emory was absolutely fascinated by all fish!

We got to see them feed the fish and answer questions while under water.

touching the thing that Nemo lived in!

Emory's favorite word while we were there was "WHOA!!" She said it at least a thousand time and loved every second of the aquarium.

The jellyfish was Christian's favorite.

Our only attempt of a family picture. After 3 tries, we finally gave up!

I wish I took her 'pas' out, but I was scared what would have happened....we were very tired but didn't want to stop looking at the fish

not a great picture, but it was so cute... we stood there for about 10 minutes while I said 'Emory, Emory, what do you see?" and she would point to a fish while I said "Emory sees a pink fish looking at her!" She thought it was great and would not let me move!

She was so tired, she actually laid her head on our shoulder to rest...NEVER HAPPENS- we had to get a picture!

Christian loved touching the shrimp and horseshoe crab.She also loved playing and going down the grouper slide

Bryan and CC inside the river section....Bryan's favorite area

under the river.

Here is CC today and when my mom and I took her in 2008 when she was close to Emory's age. Big difference, but still loved it just the same!

The girls and I had today off, so Bryan decided to take off so we could head to Atlanta to the Georgia Aquarium. We just told CC last night that we were doing something fun and it was going to be a surprise. So when we told her while driving, she went crazy. I'm not sure if she actually knew what an aquarium was, but either way- she gave us a great reaction! WE HAD THE BEST TIME! We got there around 10:30 and it wasn't crowded at all! We spent 3 full hours there going non-stop. The girls loved every second of it! Emory couldn't stop pointing at everything saying fish ('ish) and "WHOA". She fell asleep at the perfect time when CC wanted to play on the 'big kid' play area. I can't wait to take the girls back. It was a great day and still made it back in time for dinner.

18 month well baby

This is Emory still a little upset that she doesn't have her clothes on, but happy I put her shoes back on! No cute picture on the scale.....

Emory had her 18 month appointment and passed with flying colors. She weighs 26.2 pounds- 75 percentile, and is 33 3/4 inches tall- 97 percentile. We had a tiny little meltdown when it was time to undress to weigh-in. She DID NOT want to take her shoes off and she let us know it really quick. So as soon as we were finished, the nurse told me to keep her in her diaper for the doctor. I put her shoes on just to calm her down and the doctor started laughing when she came in. The nurse must have told her what was going on because she said that was not a battle she was going to pick!!!

Emory is sleeping from ~6:30-6:30 every night with a nap from 11:30-2:00. She is starting to talk a lot more and says a few phrases ("More please" while doing sign language more and usually relates to food!, "more juice", 'what's that" for almost everything). Her favorite thing to say is "uh-oh" and "boo" while hiding her face and "boo-boo' while showing you her knee that she scraped 2 months ago! She can say Papaw and Mimi and we are working on Gran and Granddaddy. She now calls us Mommy and Daddy and we still can't pinpoint how she says Christian but we know when she is wanting Christian's attention. She definitely knows what she wants and won't stop until she gets it! The doctor thinks that Emory has us figured out...her exacted words- "Um, she's got your number" when I was discussing how to handle my sweet Emory's ability to know what she wants!! So, we need to be a little more firm (I was a tad embarrassed to tell her I was a special ed. teacher who deals with behavior problems and can't figure my own 18 month old out!!). With all that said....I couldn't imagine her any other way AND she is oddly laid back even though she has a strong personality!What else.....she LOVES to eat and will eat and eat and eat! She's got the cutest belly to show for it- she's definitely a Duncan!!!:):)Her favorite book to read is Very Busy Spider and she loves to sit in your lap or next to you while reading. She also enjoys Brown Bear, Brown Bear and likes when we say 'We see Emory!" Every morning I kiss my girls palms and Emory will immediately put it up to her cheek! And if I leave the house w/o her, she will put her palm to her cheek. Who knows what she is actually doing, but Bryan and I like to think she is saying she misses me. She's a dancing fool! She will dance to any sound and often walks over to the big ipod speaker for us to turn it on. She LOVES her little school and her teachers love her! She jumps out of Bryan's arms every morning to her teacher and hugs them good-bye in the afternoon. I love that they love her just like their own. All in all- she's perfect