Today's hockey game

Emma had her third game of the season today and did good! She even had puck contact a couple times! She is pretty funny out there but doing so well. One of the parents came up last night (picture night) and commented how much better she is skating in just a couple weeks. She is starting to feel more comfortable out there and putting a lot more energy into it.

She is not afraid to follow the action and get in the middle of it! I think she is doing much better as an offensive player than defensive because of this! The coach had to keep calling her back when she was in a defensive position and then changed her to offensive and left her there!

Speaking of the coaches, gotta love them. They do so well with all the players. They had her in the face-off position against one of the best players out of this bunch and I saw the coach "hold" the other kid back for a second to give Emma a chance to get in the action.

Pictures from today: (She is green jersey #5)

Emma and her "best friend" on the team (as Emma told me today) This is one of the other two girls with Emma in the Mites division (5-8 year olds). She has been playing for a couple years and she and Emma have hit it off!



Emma trying to get in the action!



The little guy on the ice is about 13 days older than Emma. He played last year. Emma skated by him and paused and gave him this look like "Are you going to get up?!"








One of the coaches and Emma chatting about something.

May I present... Lady Liberty!

Here is a snapshot from Sat's Truck-n-Treat. She was quite the hit since it was an original costume.

Before leaving Emma asked if people would know who she was, and I just laughed to myself. I told her that if any adult asked her who she was (and if they honestly did not know) than I would give her a dollar for each time. We only had one person ask and it was a child around 9 years (I think) and as soon as her friend mentioned it she said "Oh yeah!"

Working towards Halloween...

It hit me yesterday that this Sat is "Truck-n-Treat" for the city. They have volunteers bring in their big trucks and such and the kids get to climb over them and get candy. This means she needs her costume and it is no where near ready! I have been working on it, but the parts that are left are time consuming... Well, my part is not too bad but it is paper mache and paint and it take a long time for the paper mache to dry!

So yesterday I did the first layer of paper mache and the wire form and tissue paper. Did the second layer of paper mache this morning and it will have to be enough! Hopefully can get it painted tomorrow and all will be done.... Well, still have to take the fabric I found and make it work.


Here is what I worked on yesterday...




Although though I am rushing, I am not sure we are going to try the "Truck-n-Treat". It starts at 9 and we have to be at hockey at 10:20 to get ready for her practice. I might try to get there right at 9 so she can have fun for 45 mins or so.


Once this is all done, then I need to start preparing for her party. We were at Michael's and found the candy making aisle and we are going to make lollipops as part of her favors. Thankfully, I will have all next week to work on the favors and getting the rest of stuff in line since her costume should be done by tomorrow or Friday!

Another photo shoot... one one pic that I have edited that I really like this time. I lied, going to post three :)








Violin is going so well! Her teacher is impressed with how quick she is progressing. We are working our way up to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. There are 6 different variations to the notes of Twinkle Twinkle and Emma has worked through 2 of them and is on the third. Based on how she is doing she is working through one a week! They are choppy but she has the songs down and her teacher says the smoothness will come with time.

Hockey... Emma had her second game this week. They are not really keeping track of wins/loses but her team did win! They got their jerseys at that game as well. She is on the green team (they have not come up with a team name yet) and is #5! She had a better handle on things this week. Made a couple blocks and kept trying to get the puck. Took an elbow to her face mask which knocked her down and she came up grinning! She is the youngest (by 13 days) but not the smallest.

Back to work... lots to get done on her halloween costume and to get ready for her party.

photo shoot today...

A couple pics from today... (click for larger pictures) Going to try to do a few more mini shoots in the coming weeks I hope...

I am going to try...

I am going to try to start this up again! We will see if I can keep up with it.

Emma has been keeping me busy lately... between her park group gatherings, music lessons and hockey we are usually pretty busy at least once a day. She started playing the violin late August and is doing really well! At this stage, they are not reading the actual music but the names of the notes and she is memorizing it all! She is working on the 1st of 3 or 4 parts and once she has finished these, she will be able to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. This first part is 6 lines long (3 individual lines that each are played twice) and she has it memorized with a few cues on which line to play next (we just added 2 lines last week so she is doing good!).

Hockey just started. She is in the Mites at the local rink. She had her first two practices this weekend (for the most part it will be Sat and Sun) and her first game next Sunday. There are about 15 kids and so far she is the youngest and the smallest. She was very nervous the first day and did not want to do everything that the coach had them doing but by the second day was doing a lot better. It was pretty neat to see how much more they got into than she was doing in her lessons... the first day they had an obstacle set up for the players to jump (step) over, skate through cones and then slide under another obstacle.

With the park group, we meet once a week minimum. In the past month in addition to that day, we (anywhere from one other family to many) have meet up for hiking once a week, went to the Apple Festival, went to a peach orchard, and went to a tea party at one of the girl's houses. Upcoming this month so far, pottery painting (tomorrow) and a musuem visit.

I am trying to plan a theme of the week (or weeks) for Emma and I to study/have fun with. This week is apples... Started it off with a fun project. We just finished making homemade applesauce for dinner and I just took apple muffins out of the oven! It smells good in here!