Sweet baby boy!!

Today was the big day!

Mandy getting settled in for the much shorter than anticipated labor.

Baby boy Frazier was born at 8:50 am. 8 lbs 7 ozs. 21 Inches. We're still working on the name :)

Proud Mama.

Emma was SO excited to finally meet her baby brother.

She's already an amazing big sister.

Grandpa Phair

Grandma Phair

Grandma and Grandpa Frazier

Emma got to pick out a present for baby brother which she brought to hospital. She then got some presents from him. A tea set and a backpack. I think she liked them :)

Everyone is doing great. We'll post more details soon.

Happy 90th birthday Grandpappy!

We love you!

We recently lost my Grandpa Mills a couple months ago. It was wonderful going to his grave site and celebrating his 90th birthday together with my little family tonight. Emma couldn't stop talking about it once I mentioned it to her this afternoon what we were going to do. She kept saying, "Go see Grandpa Mills for his Birthday."
We were there for a while and sang happy birthday to him and listened to her play the harmonica in his honor :) After a while she was getting ready to pick up the flowers and wanted to go SEE Grandpa Mills to really sing happy birthday to him. She would say, "go see Grandpa Mills in his bed."
Oh our sweet girl, bless her heart. We thought maybe she already was starting to understand that Grandpa Mills wasn't here anymore since the funeral. We've talked to her about life and death for quite some time now but tonight was a new experience. We then again talked to her about how his spirit lives in heaven and his body is under the ground. Told her he could see us but we can't see him right now while he's in heaven. It was again a sweet experience. I LOVE these teaching moments as her parents and her sweet innocence.

She was excited to bring Grandpa Mills his flowers for his birthday.
Emma plays her harmonica in his honor while I sang "You are my Sunshine"

dear Easter...

IT WAS A GREAT ONE!!

Emma on an Easter egg hunt with our ward in 38 degree weather..still had fun though.

Came home and snuggled and watched wonderful General Conference. Emma coloring a picture of Pres. Monson.

Colored Easter eggs between sessions..she LOVED it. Wish we had more to do. I think we'll be doing more this week.

Daddy's mad egg coloring skills

Emma woke up with Christ's Resurrection picture on her bedroom wall. Here she is telling us what's going on in the picture.

Here's Emma's little Easter basket.

Daddy and Emma going through their Easter baskets. Yes, Derek still gets an Easter basket from when we were first married. I got him a 'hot wheels' one. Emma asks, "where Mommy's Easter basket?" then I reply, "uuhhh...I don't need one sweetie."

Here's Emma's first clue to her hidden treasure. :)

She had SO much fun on her little scavenger hunt.

She's getting closer

TADA!! She LOVES her new tricycle. It is quite the big present for Easter but she's been into them SO much lately and wanting to learn to ride one and her birthday isn't until September so we splurged.

Loving it..

hopping around the house in her bunny ears

We had a lesson on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. We've been talking about it quite a bit the last couple weeks.

Went to Grandma and Grandpa Phair's house for Easter dinner. Emma playing the piano with her great Uncle Scott.

Emma in 35 degree weather enjoying the bubble wand that Grandma Phair got her. :)

37 weeks.....

And bustin' out of my skin!!

arts and crafts

Emma has been into painting and other arts and crafts lately. Here are a few that she's been doing since January.

She put a few hearts on the letter "H" that we talked about. She's knows her abc's really well..now she's been learning the sound of the letters.
Below she painted her feet and hands.

Here she is in action. She was concentrating very hard :)

Here's what our valentines looked like. Emma and I made a big card for Derek that said "I love you from head to toe" for her Daddy and we painted her feet and hands on it. She put the letters for "LOVE" on the card also.

Last week we made a little caterpillar out of an egg carton. It took some time for her to paint it, we had to do it in increments. :) We got the idea from a childrens craft website.

Here's the little guy

The art pieces were starting to add up on the kitchen wall. I finally had to take a photo and let them go. I am so sentimental, it was hard for me to throw them away :)

And here she was caught prettying up her face with some mascara.

Potty Training

The time has come. The time in which I have been procrastinating for as long as I can because frankly, it's scared me half to death. That time is Potty training!!

What a great adventure it has been the last month and a half or so. But I have to say, Emma is the one that showed the interest so I quickly jumped on it. Bought the potty charts (from Smith's), a friend told me about these charts. They were so great. They came in a pack of like 6 and had little stickers. Emma is still using them, gotta keep the fire rollin'. Ive branched off to getting other types of stickers, that keeps it exciting. And of course, the rewards have been fun. The first 5 or so rewards have been places she's wanted to go like Jump on It, Chuckee Cheese, Ice Cream, Chuckee Cheese again, and Pirate Island. Now, we are at the stage of letting her just choose a prize at the dollar store or a little cheap doodad that she enjoys.

She's done pretty good over all. Going poop in a public big potty is still kind of scary for her. We've had and still have plenty of accidents but I am learning to just be patient with it hoping that one day it will stick and will be consistent. It would be so great if it was steady by the time this little baby boy comes.

going out for ice cream..mmmmm

Jump on It

Chuckee Cheese

Pirate Island. She wasn't a fan of our pirate waiter or the big ship right next to us that would make booming noises here and there.
But she did enjoy the games and rides after dinner. Bless her heart, she's trying to lift this gun to play along with the girl next to her.