Halloween/First Communion

Sorry it's been a couple of weeks again! Time just gets away from me! Plus, Halloween was last Sunday, so it was a very busy day at the Johnson/Salzwedel house!  Emma wanted to go to the Courthouse Museum last Sunday for some free holiday fun. So her & her friend Morgan spent the day there, while Morgan's mom chaperoned! So it was an easy day for me. Emma didn't go to her dad's last Sunday, so it was kind of normal for us to not have her with us! The Friday night before Halloween, Emma & I carved the pumpkin.  She drew several faces on paper, and we voted for the winner:) She drew the face on this guy & I carved it. Our little artist!

 Harper was quite taken with the pumpkins. She calls them "pum" so she has the gist of them. She bites at the gourd stems? I don't get it, but she's so dang cute with them!

Here's the most exciting part of the last few weeks...Harper is finally walking!!!!!! We are so excited! Daycare texted me last week that she'd walked & kind of forgot she was doing it until everyone started clapping! Then, she wouldn't do it again! Stubborn baby! But ever since that, she's done about 75% of the time walking.  Still very unsteady, but she gets applause and she's digging it!

 Here's Emma as a devil or something..on Halloween. She got quite a bit of candy and went all over town with Morgan. I think we're too "uncool" already for her:(

Here's our little lady bug! She didn't like the hood at first, but did pretty well with it. We only went in the wagon to 3 of our neighbors, including Nana Suzanne's house so the daycare lady's could see her. She walked to them in her costume & I thought Nana & Ggma were gonna die! It was so cute. After trick or treating, Harper would take everything out of her bucket & then put it back in. She must've put those 5 pieces of candy in & out about 100 times! That's her newest thing. She could spend hours taking things out & putting them away!  She LOVES Elmo & Sesame Street, Dora, any kind of music and recently, she loves to hit my curio cabinet:( It's pretty solid, but she laughs every time b/c she knows she's being naughty! UGH Too young to understand time out!

 Finally, last night was Emma's first communion! I can't believe she's old enough to do some adult things like that, but she took it very seriously. We had to go to a class a few weeks ago, in which we baked wafers (that we had for communion last night) and she painted her out chalice (which she has in her hands).  All 3 sets of grandparents came (thank you!) as well as her Godparents Chad & Jen (friends of mine ) & Aunt Brandi (Mason's sister). We had  a nice meal at home afterwards and she drank out of her chalice all night! Emma went to her dad's today to have a little celebration with the Salzwedel's. Guess we weren't good enough to all celebrate together! I offered...Oh well

Busy week again last week for me. Tuesday night was our bank's ribbon cutting for the new branch that I work at, Wed, I had to go to Yankton for work...and Thursday night was Emma's conferences. Our little gal got straight A's. It was nice considering she kept telling us how her Social Studies teacher "hated" her! She got a special reward.. $50 for her efforts. Now she/we knows she can do it, we expect it more often!!

Have a good week!!