Christmas at home!

We had an absolutely wonderful Christmas this year - Emmerson's first!  The kiddos had a Christmas program at school the week before Christmas - this is where Santa made his grand appearance!  There were no tears...no one was scared or unsure...I was pretty surprised!  Later that week, Carter got a letter from Santa - that's right!  From the big man himself - sent all the way from the North Pole (there was even some reindeer food included for C to spread out on the lawn on Christmas Eve!)  Carter was SO excited about Santa coming on Christmas morning - in fact, he ran into our room to wake us and let us know that he came!  (This is not typical for C - he usually just waits in his room for us to come get him in the morning).  We opened tons of presents...and played and played and played some more...and spent lots of good quality time together as a family.  In fact, Tim had the ENTIRE week off of work - so we really took advantage!  We played at the park, played at home, practiced with C on riding his new Lightning McQueen bike, and we even went to the zoo!  A blessed holiday for sure...

So excited about his letter (please excuse the spaghetti all over his clothes & face, ha!)



Stockings full of goodies!

A couple of "big" presents from Santa for each kiddo.  Thank you Santa!

Opening lots and lots of presents...our house now officially looks like Toys R Us! 

Christmas in Houston!

We had a wonderful visit to Houston for Christmas this year!  We got to spent lots of time with Gigi, Pappy, Grandma, Uncle Scotty and Alex.  We opened tons of presents, hung out and played a lot AND made / decorated Christmas cookies for Santa! 

E opening her first Christmas present EVER!  What was so funny is that she was OBSESSED with the presents...the tree...everything.  And when it was time to actually open her gifts, she was very tentative.  I guess she figured she would hear yet another "no no" when she touched it, ha!

Caught this little girl standing up in her pack-n-play after a nap one day - uh oh, trouble! 

Oops!  Santa's cookies looked too yummy to resist!

Uncle Scotty has the magic touch...

9 months old...

Sweet Emmerson is now 9 months old!  And she is BUSY!  She is non-stop.  Crawling all over, pulling herself up - she has even been trying to walk behind one of her push toys.  Yikes!  The doctor says walking is coming soon - I hope she holds off for a little while longer ;)  The doc also said she is growing perfectly!  Little chunk is 24 pounds and 28 1/2 inches and I can't remember her head measurement (maybe 19 inches?) - but it was all in the 90+ percentile.  She is talking more...and really tries to imitate what you are saying.  It's super sweet.  She waves hi and bye ALL the time.  She is so friendly and happy - makes friends wherever we go!  (Although once she has attracted the attention of others, she quickly clings to Mommy and buries her head into my shoulder - but she sure loves strangers up until that point!)  She nods her head yes and no.  She also does the sign for "all done" when she is finished eating.  It's her interpretation of the sign - it's not exact, but it's super cute!  She has started eating more table food as of the last few weeks.  She loves puffs, yogurt melts, wagon wheels - and her favorite food right now is yogurt!  In fact, baby yogurt is about the only baby food I can get her to eat right now.  I guess the rest don't have a yummy enough taste.  I will be trying REAL foods soon - stay tuned to see if her reactions are as priceless as her big bro's!

And a side note...I just realized I never posted about Thanksgiving. Probably because while we were in Houston, we ended up at Urgent Care AND the ER because Emmerson was so sick :( But here were 2 cute pics from our visit.

8 months old!

Our sweet Emmerson turned 8 months old a few weeks ago!  (I am a little behind on the posts!)  This has been a very eventful month for her...she is now crawling all over the place!  Her first tooth has made its appearance (it took FOREVER and was PAINFUL!)  She can now wave...a few different ways and it just melts your heart (video below)!  She continues to say "mama" all the time (and she definitely knows what it means).  And we have gotten her to say "hi" and "dada" now too (check out the video below...we got her to say "hi dada" and it was just about the sweetest thing ever)!  She continues to eat up her baby food - but it seems she doesn't have quite as big of an appetite as her big bro ;)  She also started drinking from a big girl cup - super cute!  And of course her favorite thing IN THE WORLD is playing with Carter.  Saying she adores him seems like an understatement!