Winter Fun

All dressed up for church in her Christmas dress from Nanny.

Rolling on Belle after church:)

Sporting a hat knit by her very own Gigi!

The first snow!

After the blizzard

Skiing with the family

It's Christmas Time!

On our way to get our tree!
The tree that Emma and Belle wanted

The tree we chopped down

Lighting of Bronson Park... downtown Kalamazoo. Emma just LOVED all the lights!

Sniffing a flower on the way to Festivle of Trees.

Emma loved looking at all the trees. Her favorite was a little tree decorated with all Elmo things! It was too bad it was already sold:(.

Raking Leaves

Oh, there is my rake!
This is fun!

Weeee!

Daddy! Get me out of here!

This is more like it! I play with toys while my parents rake leaves:).

Watching MSU basketball with Daddy, Belle, and Larry after a hard day of raking leaves!

Chicago

Uncle Jeff and Chau-Fang flew in from VA just for this special occassion! We celebrated Mom and Dad's (Nanny and Baba's) 60th birthdays.

Emma LOVES her Uncle Jeff and wanted to be holding his finger while she was pushed in the stroller:).

Drinks at the hotel


A milk shake with Mommy and "Mow Mow" for an afternoon snack.

Lunch at Coco Pazo turned out to be quite a mess! Emma and I shared Gnochi and it was all over the cloth table cloth by the end of lunch.

We had the BEST weather!! You would never guess it was early November!

Emma running down the halls of The Drake. She is all dressed up and ready for dinner at Cafe Spiaggia.

Sorry these pictures are all out of order:)... Emma and Daddy look out the window of the water taxi!

The Bean in Millennium Park

Once again, Emma had to hold Uncle Jeff's finger.

Cafe Spiaggia

Lunch with Mow Mow and baby Belagua

Outside the Aquarium

Waiting for the show to begin... it was technically nap time.

Daddy! Do you see the Belugas??

In the taxi on the way to Shed's Aquarium

Emma looking out the window at the trucks and people on the street early Saturday morning

Dinner at this AMAZING Armenian restauraunt

Emma when to the American Girl Doll store but she only had eyes for the kitty cat!

Of course, Uncle Jeff insisted she have it... so he bought it for her:)

Oh, here is the mess (after I cleaned up) at Coco Pazzo!

Making wishes with Uncle Jeff in The Drake lobbby

Halloween

Emma D. LOVED trick-or-treating! We took her down Hol-Hi and she stopped at about 4 neighbor's houses for candy.

She even figured out how to ring a doorbell!

Later, Max, the fireman, came trick-or-treating at our house!

He brought Nanny and Baba along with him.

Edward, Elle, came over too! It was such a fun Halloween!