I got a little ambitious and made him a Lightning McQueen cake. I bought a mold for the cake and put it on top of a sheet cake decorated like a road. It took me over an hour to frost it, but I was quite proud of myself when I finished. I know it isn't as fancy as one you can buy, but I was so happy to make it for Emerson. I've never met a kid that young so obsessed with a character before.
Emerson's favorite food is spaghetti so I made a ginormous batch. It was very yummy and as you can probably tell by these pictures, I think Emerson enjoyed it as well.
Emerson was excited to open his presents and sat down in his BSU chair to open them. Once he opened the first present, that was all he wanted to see. He wanted the box opened right away so he could start playing with it immediately. Mommy ended up opening the rest of the presents. Funny little guy...
Of course, he was way excited to get a big Lightning car from his daddy and once he saw that one, it was bye bye to toy number one and hello to Lightning. He and Kylie had a lot of fun playing with all his new loot.
By the time everyone had gone, Emerson needed to have a bath and get into bed, but all he wanted to do was play. We had quite the adventure getting him in the tub. He was so tired that once his head hit the pillow, he was out. I think he had a most fabulous birthday party! Thank you so much to everyone for helping us celebrate!
By the way, soccer has started and Elizabeth's team has won two games in a row, both 4-0. It is so exciting because this is the first winning season we have had in a very long time.
We also finished our patio of slate that we've been working on. It was quite the full weekend with a BSU game, party preparations, soccer games and then the party, but well worth it all!!!
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We went camping in McCall over the Independence Day weekend and woke up one morning to see deer in our campsite. Apparently they didn't get the message that nobody is allowed on the grass. We sure did as the rangers came and warned us every evening.
Emerson the fair has to get lathered up with sunscreen whenever we do anything outside and he's such a trooper. He always sits so nicely for us and takes it like a man.
Emerson and Daddy had a most wonderful time building a sand castle, but even the big boys eventually get tired. The trip was quite the event for us. Emerson had a nasty ear infection, then got bitten by some insects, then had baseball size whelts on his thighs. We rushed home Sunday night and by some miracle they were completely gone the next day as if they had never even been there! All of this was also happening as Brent was getting a very awful sinus infection. Emerson has had so many ear infections and is allergic to three different antibiotics so we went to see an ear, nose and throat doctor. He took a 10 second look in both ears with a microscope and said, "he needs tubes" so we took him in on Monday last week and he had surgery to put tubes in his ears. The surgery lasted all of 15 minutes and he got to wake up lying in my arms. He seems so much better with the tubes. He has said many new words just in the time since the surgery and isn't pulling at his ears in pain. We are all much happier. Well that's it for all the big stuff from our side of the world for now. We'll write more later. The following is just a cute picture of Emerson from last weekend.
