Emma's busy social calendar

So, we'll leave out the gory details, but this week was tough one at the Carroll house. A stomach bug went through the ENTIRE family, even this mama's horse strong, high school teacher worn's immune system. I swore I would not fall, but alas, I was the last one to fall on Thursday. We'll leave the details out, but Mark and I both missed two days of work, one with a sick kid, and the other with a sick self! By Friday, we had all recovered.

Anyway, Saturday Emma had two engagements to attend. First was Cameron's cupcake party at Cupcake and Cream on sherwood. It was very cool. They got to 'make' cupcakes and then decorate them. Here Emma puts in some sugar:



Katie added some chocolate sauce. (Much to Emma's disappointment, Cameron's mom invited Katie to stay since one of her guests had cancelled):



Emma and the birthday girl:



Katie decorating her cupcake:




Emma decorates her cupcake. You should have seen the amount of icing on these things when they were done. And of course, Emma ate about 2 bites!

Emma and Cameron model their finished products:

After the party Emma had her FIRST SLUMBER PARTY at Addie's house. I wasn't sure if she was going to make it all night because she seemed so little, but I had a feeling she would be okay. (She tends to be a little braver than some one else in our household!) Addie's mom said their wasn't even a mention of home the whole time! So proud of her. Emma and Addie love each other so much, they crack me up. When they see each other, they hug like its been years. Too funny. I didn't get too many pics b/c Addie's mom picked Emma up, but I got this one when I picked her up the next morning.

This is Emma, Sophie (Addie's cousin), Addie and Aubrey, the neighbor across the street who is in the first grade at Northside:

My little baby is growing up. Sometimes, I miss the crib and noonie days!

Nah!

Earrings and babies and softball, oh my!

So we had a very eventful schedule this weekend, but not in a bad way! Friday was relaxing, but then we hit the roads running Saturday morning. First we headed off to the mall to get Emma's ears pierced, AGAIN! Katie and Emma both got them done about a year and a half ago, but both of them got pretty infected when we took them out. After they closed up, Katie never expressed that she wanted to get them redone, but Emma has been asking me about it for months, so we finally went this weekend. I forgot to bring my camera into the mall, but here are two after pictures:





... and a 'sidewards' view ( as emma would say):







After the mall, we dropped Katie off at a friends house in Baton Rouge, and Emma and I came home to meet up with Mrs. Julie and baby Sarah on a stroll. We found out that someone likes Barbies!










Emma and baby Sarah:



I title this one: " No, baby Sarah, don't put that one in your mouth!"

Saturday night, we met some of our coworkers at Big Mike's to eat after Mark's baseball scrimmage. Yummy as always!

Sunday we went out to North Park (with a million other people). The girls wanted to play at the park and Mark threw the softball with Katie who wants to play softball at Northside. We also walked around the path by the pond.

By the walking path:

Swinging in the park:

Katie throwing the softball with dad:

Snow Day (Louisiana style)

So we some how managed to get not one, but 2 days of school off this week because of the threat of sleet and ice (snow... not so likely). While my sister dealt with multiple inches of snow in Plano, this is what our "snow day" looked like:

Lots of rain and very cold, but locally we didn't see any ice. I think there was some just north of us, but nothing yet. So the Carrolls took the opportunity to clean house (fun, yes!), get groceries, fix big breakfasts and make our vacation countdown calendar! As you can see at the top of the blog page, we are going on the new Disney cruise ship - the Dream. We are fast approaching the 100 day mark. Last time we went to Disney, we made a count down calendar, so we had to do it again:

Here Emma puts stickers on the poster:

... and here is the final product. We are at day 107 right now, so we won't be marking off days yet, but probably next weekend. Castaway Cay here we come!