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We made it home last night around 9:30. We left at 1 Atlanta time, 12 our time. We made a few gas/diaper changing stops and a dinner stop. We also made a stop at Babies R Us to get Emma Grace some more croc shoes. She loves wearing her hot pink pair, so I got her a purple and turquoise pair. She discovered over our trip that she likes to wear them on her hands. She will also put her socks on her hands. I think Wes has photos of her with her socks or shoes on her hands. She was certainly showing that she is getting close to her terrible twos. I have never seen her act the way she did while we were gone. On Saturday, she acted liked herself, but the other days I don't know who that kid was. I guess I will give a day by day account of what we did. I was going to do it while we were there, but I had to borrow Wes' computer because I left mine at home.

Friday: We went to the Aquarium, and Emma Grace seemed to enjoy it. We bought our tickets in advance, so we wouldn't have to stand in line. Brad has a membership pass, so we got to go in the membership entry. It was the way to go. There was no line, and I was glad because it was COLD. However, we were all but stripped stretch to go into the aquarium. The man looked through my purse and diaper bag, but the craziest thing was he made me drink Emma Grace's juice. I had an extra big bottle of it, and he made me open it and drink it. It had never been opened. I broke the seal to open it, but he said you must drink it. I can honestly say I don't know how she drinks that nasty stuff. Then he did the wand around me, but he didn't do Emma Grace which shocked me since he made me drink the juice. Wes wasn't happy about having to be check like a criminal. The first thing we looked at was stingrays and bottlenose sharks (I think). Emma Grace wasn't too fond of them. She was like that with a lot of the big fish. I touched the stingray, which I had done before at Sea World. They said they had removed their barbs. We were wondering if they did that after what happened to Steve Irwin or did they do that anyway. Emma Grace wanted to get down and walk around, but she just didn't want to go in the direction that we were supposed to go in. She would pitch a fit wanting to get down, but once she saw a "ish" she would be fine. We couldn't take the stroller into the different areas, so we had to tote her. Brad said they had just started making you park your strollers outside each area. I guess because it would get so crowded. It wasn't very crowded, so I highly recommend going on a weekend when school is in. She liked looking at the sea lions and penguins. One of the sea lions was so cute; he/she was giving himself/herself a bath. It was so cute how he/she would wash his/her face. She also liked the BIG wall of fish. She pitched her a fit in the gift store, but she was SOOOOOOOOO sleepy. She almost fell asleep walking back to the truck, and was asleep before we made it out of the parking garage. She slept for about two and a half hours. We went out to eat, and she was showing those terrible twos again. I think Brad has bruises all over his legs from her kicking him under the table. She refused to eat pieces of a roll or baked potato (which she loves to eat). Wes had to get up and take her outside to make her happy. We then tried the ketchup, and that worked. She sat there and ate ketchup. She also fed her face and nose with ketchup. We have pictures of it. We started to steal the bottle of ketchup, because that is the only thing she seemed to want to eat and Brad's ketchup had expired many a years ago.

Saturday: Emma Grace decided she would eat this morning. She ate two jars of cereal. We went to Turner Field to the Braves Fan Fest. It was COLD. We were hoping to get some photos with some players, but on the paper they give you listing the players and times they would be signing autographs it said NO PHOTOS PLEASE. We decided to just run the bases with Emma Grace and leave. The only player I cared about was Chipper Jones, and he wasn't signing autographs until 3. We walked by the line at 12:30 and it had at least 100 people already in it. I said forget that. It is too cold, so we left to find food. We ate at Doc Green's, which I highly recommend. It is a healthy fast food place. (I guess) It was very good. And, guess what, Emma Grace decided to eat again. She ate mashed potatoes, and about fell asleep while eating. Wes asked her if the eating fairy came during the night. She has refused to eat on this trip. We tried everything. She did eat a little mashed potatoes at the Cheesecake Factory on Wednesday night, and a few mac n cheese noodles on Thursday night. The only thing she wanted was those puffs. She ate almost a whole container on this trip. She also fed alot to her car seat and to Brad's floor. We went back to Brad's and the sleepy bug finally took her over. We watched Talladega Night. Stupid, but funny in some parts movie. We decided to go back to Doc Green's for supper. I wish they had one somewhere around here. After that, we had to make a Target run. I got Emma Grace some broccoli cheese soup and mac n cheese at Doc Green's. She took a few bites of the soup and decided she was back to not eating. I had gotten her some ice cream at Target, and she inhaled it. I would trick her and put some soup in with it, but she quickly realized what I was doing. If I gave her the ice cream and it was white, she would eat it, but if I gave it to her and it was yellow she wouldn't eat it. She knew when it had the soup with it. She is so smart.

Well, I guess that is all for the trip. Grammy and Granddaddy came to the house to turn the heat up so it wouldn’t be too cold in the house when we got home. Emma Grace was glad to see her Grammy. When we walked in the door, Emma Grace saw Grammy and started waving at her. Her whole body started twisting and she wanted down. She ran straight to her Grammy. Don’t know who was more excited, Grammy or Emma Grace. Emma Grace ran to all her toys and started pulling them out. You would have thought she had never seen the toys before in her life. She ran from toy to toy so excited to be out of her car seat and to be back home. Well, Wes goes to Washington, DC next week, but Emma Grace and I are staying home. He will only be gone for a day. Emma Grace will not be happy. She loves her daddy. She was so excited when he came home today, and cried when he went to use the bathroom. She wanted him to hold her. We had to pull her highchair by him, so she would eat. Yes, she actually did eat today. Wes put new photos up, so go look and enjoy. Until next time…..