Happy 4th Birthday Emmy-Lou!!

Can you believe that our baby girl turned 4 today? I can't! It seems like it was just yesterday that she was asleep in my arms...oh wait...that was yesterday she crawled into my bed a little after midnight :) I'm just kidding...I do miss the little baby days. You know the days where she would just lay in her crib or her swing and I didn't have to worry about what she was getting into. Like right now when at 11:00 at night she is supposed to be in her bed but I can see her crawling down the hall talking to the cat.

All of a sudden she is this little person. She's no longer a baby. Today while Wade was putting clothes in the dryer she walked up to him and said "Wade what are you doing?" not "Daddy what are you doing?" she called him Wade! Oh and you now have to watch what you say around her because she will get you for it. The number one word we are not allowed to say is stupid. You might say it and not even realize it but she will catch you and she will tell you "Don't say stupid." and you actually have to apologize to the four year old that you said a bad word that you don't even remember saying.

Today was a very busy day in the Holder house. Emily went to school early so mommy could go to school and study for her Anatomy Lab Test. Then at about 3:00 I took two dozen cupcakes to her class so they could sing her Happy Birthday. It was wonderful seeing all the kids faces turn neon colors :)

After cupcakes we went to HEB to buy stuff to make a cake at home so we could sing Happy Birthday with Daddy when he got home from work. Mommy decided it would be easier to make a cake rather than buying one. Ummm I bake all the time. I mean all the time. I make most of the cakes for people at work. So how is it that I messed up the one cake that actually meant a lot to me? First I baked the stupid thing on 275 degrees rather than 325 and didn't realize until it had taken almost an hour for the thing to bake. Then when it was done and cooled down I went to flip it onto a flat pan and the stupid (there's that word again) thing broke in three pieces. I'm sure you know that my temper was starting to flare because it's not like I've never done this before!! But I put the cake back together and frosted it and eventhough it's funky shaped it still worked out.

We sang Happy Birthday when Daddy got home and Mommy made everyone take about 100 pictures...mostly because I didn't like the way I looked in any of them. I've noticed that since I've lost 26 pounds I have to make sure that I don't look "fat" in any of them. I think I'm becoming obsessed. But that's a whole different blog :)

Well anyways here's the pictures from today...enjoy :)

On her way to school

Posing with her weird looking cake :) Can you tell which part she put the sprinkles on and which side Mommy did.

Mommy and baby (or should I say big girl?)

Happy Family eventhough Wade doesn't look like it :)

Blowing out her candles

Looking at her singing Little Mermaid card that came with her present.

She got Snow White and was super happy.