Emma at the gym (Part 2)

Here are some videos of Emma at the gym. Here she is on the rocker mat, looking somewhat confused as to how you get it to rock:



Here she is on the tumbling trampoline, making a great run. We still need to work on the jump into the foam pit, we are a little hesitant about that dismount, but it still scores a perfect 10 in mommy's eyes:

Emma at the gym

Mommy sometimes takes Emma to gymnastics (despite her protestations that Emma will never be a gymnast). Here are some pictures of her enjoying her time at the gym.

Here she is preparing for her bar routine, mommy's old specialty (we won't tell her only the men do parallel bars):

Here she is sharing the mat with her friend Maria (and not looking so happy about it):

Here she is surveying her domain:

And here she is enjoying her treasure (a piece of foam from the pit):

And finally, here she is preparing for the daunting task of climbing the rock wall so she can get to the slide at the top:

Emma at the library (Part 2)

The library has a special room full of trucks. Emma particularly loved a dump truck, but quickly discovered, much to her annoyance, she discovered the truck liked to "dump" her out:



And here she is playing with the toy money in the cash register; she particularly loved paying Papa for his video services:



Of course, she never really meant to pay; we will have to talk to her about actually paying for services rendered.

Emma at the library

Mimi and Papa have a great library out by them and Emma loves to play with everything there, especially the computers that have wonderful baby computer games and headphones!


Right now the library has a little farm produce stand set up to play with; does anyone want a pizza with nice fresh vegetables?

That will be $2.50 a slice:

Here she is playing with the ball slider (though she frankly had more fun climbing on it to look out the window):

Our accountant

Tax day is today! Does anybody need Emma to double-check their math?

Help!

I'm stuck! I just wanted to sit on the kitchen chair... I didn't know you had to pull it out first!

At the park!

Emma loved the park by the zoo. She particularly liked the slide!

At the zoo

We took Emma to Lansing's Potter Park Zoo today. We had a great time! Here are Emma and Daddy, pointing at a bald eagle (which was totally disinterested in us). Emma liked the birds a lot!


Emma really enjoyed watching the otters run around - they're really cute!


She also really liked the ring-tailed lemurs - she watches a show called 'Zaboomafoo', whose star is a lemur. She kept pointing at them and saying 'Zaboo'!


We spent a LOT of time at the lemur exhibit.


She also tried feeding the goats, though we've got some work to do with that particular skill.

All in all, it was a great day!

Mornings in the O'Shea household

This is a pretty typical morning in the O'Shea household. The boss wanders around in a diaper and the oven mitts, surveying her domain...


And then is fed breakfast standing up in her chariot (or wagon, whatever) in the laundry room while her subjects look on.

It's a strange routine, but it works for us (today, at least).

Emma's new shoes

Emma really likes to try on other peoples' shoes. Here she is trying to get around in her daddy's shoes!

Emma's tree

Papa has been waiting for Emma to get enough hair for a "tree" on her head. She finally has enough, but just barely!