Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Emma is 3! Whaaaaaaaaat?

Our sweet Emma turned 3 years old this month. (sigh) Our sweet little girl is growing so fast. We can't keep up! :) She had a very very special birthday 'Alice in Wonderland style. She had her little girlfriends over for a Mad Hatter Tea party. My friend Sara made her darling Alice dress. Here are some pictures from the tea party.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Dancing Thomas!

This is what we put this poor kid through for our entertainment. (Or at least what I put him through for Emma's entertainment.)

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

growing, growing, oh and growing....

(sorry couldn't resist)


Thomas is 4 months tomorrow, GOOD CRIMINY! It's FLYING by. It seems like just yesterday we brought him home from the hospital.
He is laughing a lot. Overall is a happy boy. He LOVES his sister. Even though she's harassing him lots lately, he still smiles at her and loves looking at her. He LOVES being held and looking at everyone. He LOVES eating (enough said). He LOVES being swung and tossed around..makes him laugh...lots and he LOVES his baths. He is our sweet little chubba chub!

He had his 4 month check up today, here are the numbers.

Weight: 15 lbs. 11 oz.- 68% tile.
Length: 26.5 inches- 93%tile
Head circumference: 17 inches- 74%tile

And as for our Emma girl, she is growing up tremendously as well. She is talking up the storm and definitely approaching her 3 year stage :) She turns three next month. Trust me, she talks about her birthday on a daily basis since the beginning of this year. You think I'm kidding? :) She is our little firecracker and has been at the 'testing' stage. Testing her boundaries with us, but we love her to PIECES. She's our little sweetie.
She LOVES dressing up so I thought I'd share a few pictures of her in her dress ups.

Pioneer day in a holly hobbie pioneer outfit. We were teaching her to say "Pioneer." At the beginning of the day she would say "I'm a reindeer" but eventually she figured out how to say "Pioneer". Cutie.
She dressed herself. Isn't she stylin'? My friend Sara made her this cute petti skirt for her second birthday. Sara, she nearly wears this skirt everyday; especially if she hears music that she wants to dance to, she'll run in her room and grab it to put on :)
cute chick
She LOVES putting on Mommy's shoes. She calls them "glass slippers"

Friday, August 6, 2010

5 years ago today...

Derek told me he loved me!
I love you sweetie!

Thursday, August 5, 2010

and she was caught...

nursing her kitty!

I guess she's been observing mommy a little too much. :)

Monday, July 12, 2010

Happy 3 months Thomas!!

Daddy's little boy
This little guy (well maybe not so little) is growing up EVERYDAY! At his two month appointment, he weighed a whopping 13 lbs. and 24 inches long. Weight= 80%tile Height= 85%tile. I wonder what he weighs now. :)
I just love giving him kisses all over all the time on his chubby thighs, cheeks, and little piggies. He JUST started sleeping through the night two weeks ago. This last week he started waking up again once in the night again, but only a couple times. Let's hope he stays with this. Emma started sleeping through the night around 2 1/2 months.
I'll be honest with my babies, it's those first two months that are pretty rough, adjusting to a newborn again, but it's getting better now. Lots better.
Thomas was blessed by Derek on the 4th of July. He was given such a beautiful blessing by his Daddy. His cousin Finn was also blessed in our ward which made it even that much more special. More pictures of that day will come. We were so grateful to have a lot of family here to support us.And today Thomas hit a BIG MILESTONE, he started laughing. I will be putting video of it up later.
So enjoy a few pictures of our growing boy and family.Thomas and cousin Finn being held by Oma.

more coming later...

Thursday, July 1, 2010

they grow and grow....

I don't know why blogger is making this picture vertical, but I wanted to share it. While Emma was napping one afternoon, Thomas and I were hanging out, playing and taking pics of ourselves.

Sweet Thomas boy is 11 weeks already. He is about 13 lbs. and can nearly put his whole fist in his mouth..amazing. He smiles a lot...he's almost laughing. He loves his bath time and just started sleeping through the night on Monday...let's hope he continues. He's my little chubby buddy :)

Look at those blue eyes, we may have another blue eyed child :)

This sweet girl is growing EVERY DAY!! She has gotten so tall and talks, talks, and talks. She loves talking about getting married in the temple, dancing, singing her own songs, wearing her princess dresses, wearing mommy's church shoes (she calls them glass slippers), finds whatever treasures she can and puts them in her pockets (rocks, ribbons, coins, etc...), singing her abc's, and 'twinkle twinkle little star', she loves to show us her dance moves; she'll say, "Look Mommy, I'm dancing", and this girl LOVES her books. I always find her in her room reading from her books as well as listening to her books on tape.
She's always concerned about others. She's always ask me, "Mom, you happy?" Or if I'm having a rougher day, she'll ask "Mommy, you mean?" hahahha. I always tell her I try not to be. Then she'll say, "Oh ok, you not mean. You nice?" I say "I try to be." Then she'll say, "Daddy's nice too." She also gets concerned if Derek or I accidentally hit something and say "ouch"..she gets so concerned and wants to kiss it better :)


Not to mention she LOVES her brother Thomas. She's such a great big sister. She's always concerned about him when he's crying. Or if she wakes from a nap, she'll ask, "where's Thomas?" She laughs at him when he makes his funny faces, gurgling sounds or his cute smiles.

Emma got her first real hair cut yesterday by our friend Liz. She did such a good job! I was so nervous for her to get it done but am SO glad she did. Emma did so well sitting there watching in the mirror. She was excited to get her hair cut, she talked about it all that morning.
Turned out darling. I love it. My little girl is growing up so fast!