First Day of Preschool!

Well, today was an emotional day for me and David (probably for Emma too! haha). It was Emma's first day of preschool! We have chosen a wonderful preschool for her here in Fort Myers. I have heard, and continue to hear, nothing but rave reviews about it. It's definitely one of the best in the area. Emma started off there by going to Mommy and Me (of course w/ her mommy) last Fall when she was 18 months old. I really think that prepared her for her first day (along w/ LOTS of books about preschool!).

Her first day was a fairly good one, with just a little crying off and on throughout the morning. I think it really kicked in later that afternoon when she was home though. Her behavior was a little "off" and she kept saying "mommy and daddy always come back to get you" (yes, she still calls herself you!). We will see how Wednesday and Friday go! She will be attending Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. She even eats lunch there and has a little lunch bag!




Check out the back of her dress...I love it!

SOME RANDOM PICTURES
...Sunday was laundry day and Emma was being SO good. She decided she wanted to "help" and climbed into the basket. She wanted to be pushed around! Silly girl. It's actually a GOOD workout for the person pushing!


Emma LOVES to go into our closet and put my heels on! They HAVE to be heels though. She doesn't bother w/ the flip flops. She also loves going into my jewelry box and wearing my jewelry. Her new thing is carrying around her play purse w/ her necklaces inside! She HAS to take it everywhere!

I have to say, she chose my HOTTEST heels! Good taste, my little girly girl!

Michigan Trip

This is LONG overdue (as mentioned before) but here goes! At the beginning of July we took a family trip to MI to visit Mimi and Papa (David's parents), Great Grandma (David's Grandma), Aunt Gale and Uncle Bob (David's Aunt and Uncld) and David's cousin, Jennifer. David's other cousin Andy, and his wife Brynel flew in from CO as did Uncle Jay (Uncoo Jay as Emma calls him) and Uncle Michael. Emma loved meeting and visiting w/ everyone.

Over the 4th of July weekend we had some parties. We had Baggo tournaments, drank, ate, swam and relaxed. GOOD TIMES for sure. It might have been the best Dodge party ever. ;)



Here are some pics to recap the weekend:

David's dad FINALLY retired (ok, well at least partially) as did his Uncle, we got this VERY classy cake for them--it was delicious!

Bob (Uncle Bob the Builder as Emma so affectionately refers to him) and Dick aka Dumpy aka Papa waiting to dig into the cake.

Some of us were more excited than others for the cake...you know who you are girls!

Michael and Bry enjoying their delicious cocktails (thanks Jason!)


Let the pool frisbee game begin (yes Jason caught BOTH frisbees):

So did David...

I liked the cool backlighting in this pic...Bry joining in the frisbee fun


By the end of the night, we were all tuckered out, so we built a fire, roasted marshmallows and made s'mores and drank some beer.

Andy and Bry

Bob and Gale


GREAT times! Miss you Dodges! :)