Turkey Day

Thanksgiving this year had two extra reasons to be special.

My dear husband and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary!  I am the luckiest lady in the world!

And the second reason is that it was Emmett's first Thanksgiving!  He had the perfect outfit.. turkey butt!

It's funny how difficult it is for Emmett to crawl across pillows; mom, dad, grandma and grandpa were laughing and enjoying watching it.

And of course, the turkey coma!

Baby Play Group

Today was another meeting of the baby playgroup.  The little ones are so funny together. Today Emmett was the talker, Jack showed us his abs of steel, Molly practiced walking, and Conner wanted all of the toys to chew on. We wore Jack out - he took two naps so he missed the photo shoot.

Scooter

Emmett has reached another milestone... he is now mobile! He is a fast little scooter. We thought he was going to crawl a month ago, but he decided to wait a while, drop, and scoot. His top five favorite things to get into and play with are Wilson's water, Wilson's dog food, throw rugs, power cords, and the Bible shelf. We're now working on the word 'no'.

Congratulations are in Order

I am so proud of my children!  And not just because I think they are the best kids ever, Aiden and Krynne deserve congratulations!

Aiden is the top popcorn seller in his Cub Scout Pack this year!  Thanks to all who purchased popcorn from him.  He is quite the salesman, and is grateful for the help of his sisters. For selling over $600 in popcorn he got to choose to either throw a pie in his den leader's face, or have his den leader throw a pie in his face.  You can see which one he choose!

Krynne's big news is she made the varsity dive team for Lincoln East High School  Yippee!  She's excited and nervous to begin her high school athletic career.

Mom and Big Daddy are proud of you both!

Cousin Time

On Saturday Aunt Kristie had a lot of fun - she had all 5 of the kids at her house.  Kaylee thinks Baby Emmett is just the greatest, and she really likes doing things with her older cousins too.  They watched movies and played video games.  Sariah said she had the best time.

Big Sisters

Big sisters are good for dressing you up in their hat and gloves....

Which isn't so bad after all ....

And big sisters use little brothers for - bench pressing!

Halloween

I was printing pictures tonight and really like this one from Halloween.  Sariah is a zookeeper with a little tiger.  She thought the mustache would be fun to wear, until she actually wore it and realized it was itchy!

Poor little guy

Well, we did not attempt to measure Emmett tonight to see how tall he was - we were too busy trying to catch the puke!  He is the sweetest little guy when he's sick.  No fever, great smiles, and lots of snuggles.  Daddy calls it the newest version.  We figure it must be the beta version of Emmett 2.1.  Emmett 2.0 was the not-so-spitty version. Version 2.1 is a little buggy since there is barf, but the snuggles are awesome!

My first post

My friend Erica told me that I really should start my own blog. So here I am Erica!

My little guy turned 8 months old yesterday.  I took him in to be weighed today and he is 19 pounds 5.8 ounces.  I really expected he would be heavier than that, but I guess he is doing most of his growing in length to be tall just like his daddy. We will attempt to have him hold still long enough to get his height today.

Emmett's new parlor trick is to blow "zerberts" in the air, spraying spit as he does so. It's funny as they find new ways to make noise when they are young.  Although that seems to continue until they are 9 year old boys!