Kissing Cousins (Part Two)

So, when I stopped writing the other day, we were nearing the crescendo of Emily's adventures. Well, crescendo they certainly did. While hanging out with her cousins at the mall, waiting for the pictures to be ready, Emily was telling them how much I have been bugging her to go out and look for work. Saramy, being the wonderful loving cousins they are, told her that they would help her look for something to do on Friday, their last day in town.

After some discussion with their mother they discovered a "Job Fair" at the children's museum. The pictures that follow do a great job of illustrating Emily's exhausting search, with the help of her cousins. I will say that despite all of their efforts Emily is still a jobless layabout. She appears to be taking what I call the "Goldilocks" approach to job hunting, too dirty, too hard, too...blah blah blah. I don't think that she is taking this very seriously.

Saramy had to leave very early on Saturday morning so Emily, who as a jobless layabout enjoys sleeping in, said her goodbye's on Friday night. She needed to drive back out to Midway to pick up her Auntie Mandy in the afternoon. Emily hadn't seen Mandy since Wednesday morning and was looking forward to seeing if she bought any presents while she was away. All in all Emily had a very busy week and was looking forward to getting some rest. She is looking forward to the WalkAmerica on Sunday, and has her outfit all picked out. So stay tuned for the details of Sunday's walk and more pictures of our favorite jobless layabout.

On Friday morning, Sarah generously offered to help Emily prepare her resume, so that she can begin her job search and get her Daddy off of her back. Their next stop was going to be a job fair at the Rockford Children's Museum.

Here, at a job fair, Emily tries out her hand at Super Hero work. She thought the flying was fun, and she definitely enjoyed saving her cousin Amy, but there are not a lot of Super Hero jobs with daytime hours. Daddy would definitely have a problem with her working nights.

Hmmmmm, maybe I could be a News Anchor. She thought she'd have trouble sitting at the desk, so she decided to sit on the desk. Is that too unprofessional?

She then decided to give operating a construction crane a shot. She had a lot of fun moving the heavy things around, but dismissed this job pretty quickly because she doesn't like to get her pretty clothes dirty.

Emily's next adventure brought her to the moon as an Astronaut. She liked the astronaut ice cream a lot, but the rest of the food you have to eat in space is kind of a drag, so she decided to continue with her search.

Sarah likes soccer, maybe I will too.

You get too many grass stains on your socks playing soccer, maybe I'll try out being a Fire Fighter. Well, the coat is really cute, but that hat is too big, and I don't think I'll like the heat and soot. I guess I'll have to try again another day. Hmmm, maybe I could product test swings and jumperoos . . .

On Saturday, Emily decided to spend a little time bouncing in her new jumperoo. Remember the jumperoo she test drove on Thursday? Well, it found its way to our car and to our house.

Auntie Mandy came home on Saturday afternoon after having spent a few days in Orlando at a Social Worker's conference. Emily was excited to see her and vice versa.

Auntie Mandy brought home presents. Emily got this fun Mini Minnie that has magnets in her arms and legs, so she can hold onto Emily's clothes.

Grandma Kathy and Mommy got really neat Minnie pens. Daddy got a Mickey pen.

Wow! Look at Mini Minnie hang! She's really strong.

On Monday, Daddy had the day off from work, so Emily got to have a "Daddy Day". They came to school to meet Mommy for lunch. Emily was dressed in a plethora of polka dots, we thought Aunt Sandy would be excited.

Don't 'cha just love this crooked smile?

After Mommy came home from work, it was time to run some errands. One of these errands was to visit Grandma Roberta at church for a little while. While we were there, the Holy Spirit landed on Emily's head. That crazy Holy Spirit.