Pre surgery activities!

So, Wednesday is the big day. And, I thought it only appropriate that Emarie get a proper send off to her summer, since after Wednesday, she will spend the rest of it in a half-body cast :(

We of course have been going to the local pool (Veteran's Pool) a lot, and joined by my mom most of the time too! Too bad I don't have pictures from our last time on Thursday, because it was SO awesome! And I'll tell you why; usually I ask Em as we watch other kids doing it, if she wants to go down the kiddie water slide. She always shakes her head "no". However, this time she surprised me by responding with a "yeah" finally! So, we did it, I took her up, and my mom caught her at the bottom. I figured she'd be done after that, but she wanted to go two more times! And that's not all! While we were playing in the shallow end, a very cute little girl by the name of Brynn spontaneously came up and started playing with my Emarie! I honestly can't tell you that this has ever happened before. That being, a stranger, "typical" child just coming and playing with my little girl of her own free will! I'm sure her parents might have thought I was a little weird for getting so excited, but at least they were good sports and kept getting out more toys for the girls to play with. They honestly threw the ball back and forth for about 10 minutes! And she even tried to teach Em a bad habit of drinking the pool water. I didn't even care, I was just SO proud and happy in this moment! What a great way to end the last day at the pool this summer!

Now, back when we first learned that this surgery would be necessary, I thought of doing a lot of fun things leading up to it. We settled on taking her to the zoo, and when I say "we" I mean Steve and I both. I didn't think it was fair to Em, that just because of what was going on, that she shouldn't have both of her parents with her doing fun things. So we kept good on our decision, but decided against the zoo for a couple of reasons, but one big one being, it was just too dang hot! So, we decided on the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy for Friday. 

Here's some pictures:

First a stop at Crown Burger (Steve had been wanting to go here ever since he saw it featured on the Food Network)

It looks as though both of them are sneering at me

She wasn't quite sure what to think yet :)

Jellyfish, the only way meant to be observed.........in a tank! That coming from a person that was once stung by an entire school of them!

Look at that adoring look! She just LOVES him!

I've done everything I can to make it so my bangs don't look so bad......how'd I do??

I just LOVE this girl!

So, on Saturday, I took Em to a park right near our house that has a duck pond. She absolutely loved feeding the ducks! We did the swing last, since I didn't think she'd want to get off. But I was wrong, she didn't want to leave the ducks! It was great too, because since she can't throw very far, the bread was landing right by her feet on the rocks, yet the ducks were coming right up there and grabbing, and she, well, she thought it was hilarious!

Some pictures of that:

Photo op on the bench first!

I could not have asked for a better child!

Yay! Ducks! And SO close! Too close for mommy's comfort! Good think I can put that aside for my girl!

Love this one of her concentrating so hard to tear the bread!

Not so easy getting pictures when it's just the two of us!

And on the swing, she wouldn't ever look at me before the camera died :( there was another little girl next to us, that she was very happy about watching!

The last thing we did was today (Monday), we went to 7 Peaks (a local water park) joined by my cousin Alexis and her adorable boy Miles!

Some pictures:

Uhm, are we going to get in the water or what mom?

Miles and Lexi, so cute!

Mommy and Em


We sure crammed a lot in to the last week, and most specifically the last few days! But, we had a blast doing it! And, also I just learned that Em's PT wants her to go to The Little Gym one last time, so we're doing that tomorrow evening. And if Steve can come, then I'll have pictures, and maybe I'll post them along with what I'm doing tomorrow, which will be a chronicle of all Em's surgeries, since 10 is an epic number after all!