Emmett's Funny

Ok, so last week at school Emmett was "cooking" for his teacher, which he loves to do. He handed her a plastic carrot that she pretended to eat and said "yummy". She was sitting on the floor next to him. He reached his hand out to right under her mouth/chin and said, "you don't like carrots, spit that out"! Funny little boy!

A little bit about Finley

I feel like I am writing about Emmett, what he is doing or saying, a lot. SO, I thought it was time to write a "little" post just about Finley.

She is 4 days away from being a year old! I cannot believe it. This year has gone by WAY too fast. Who knew that little girl could bring so much joy to our lives. I am head over heels in love with her! She's such a sweet, laid back and (mostly) patient little girl. She really does go with the flow. She can be a little stinker too :-) When she thinks I'm not looking she throws her sippy cup (that she refuses to drink out of) onto the floor. I watch her watching me just waiting until that moment that I turn my back. Haha! She's smart! She has proven to be different from Emmett in every single way possible. It's fun to be able to raise different personality types, and interesting too.

Finley has lots of loves, here are a few.... her lamb (lovey), bathtime, fruits, scooting around on the floor, Emmett (and her parents too of course).... She's also pretty fond of her thumb but will take a paci too. Recently she'll choose a paci over the thumb. Maybe the thumb will eventually go but I do think it's SO cute for now. She also loves to be cuddled, however she is starting to get a little busy for that.

On Monday Finley took her first steps. She hasn't really taken any since then but she is standing for longer periods of time without holding onto something for support. It'll be fun when she starts to walk but I am certainly going to miss her scoot-scoot. Finley never adopted the traditional crawl. She just scoots herself all over the place and that is just fine with her. She gets where she needs/wants to go!

We have so many little nicknames for her it is ridiculous. I'm really not crazy about any of them so hopefully they won't stick. I call her my scoot-scoot a lot.

All I have to say is HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY to my little girl. I love you more than you will ever know!!!!

Watch me as I grow...

2 Days Old

3 months old

(almost) 6 months old

9 months old

11 1/2 months old

Emmett's Funny

Some reading this may know that Emmett is very modest in the restroom. Pretty much Murray and I can go with him but no one else. Sometimes he even kicks us out. Today Murray was with him in the restroom. He advised Murray that he need to pooh-pooh, then told Murray to get out. Murray responded with "why do I need to get out, Emmett". Emmett's response, "it's going to stink, Daddy". Bahahahahahaha!!!!! I hope this doesn't gross you out but we found it hilarious!

Christmas Day 2009

We had such a WONDERFUL Christmas!!!! Emmett was so much fun and sweet Finley was just along for the ride. The only thing Emmett would say he wanted Santa to bring him were cars and trucks. We decided that he "needed" a John Deere gator... he didn't know how much he needed it until today!

When Emmett woke up we went to his bedroom to intercept before he came downstairs. We started the day by singing the happy birthday song to Jesus. We have really tried to instill the meaning of Christmas into him and will continue to do so through the years. I don't think Emmett truly understood that Santa was coming last night and leaving gifts. We put reindeer food out yesterday evening (sorry Santa but we forgot your cookies). He understood why we did that. So anyway, after we sang I let him know that Santa had been here. He immediately hopped up and said "huuuu, let's go!". We got Finley up because we didn't want her to miss all the action. Emmett ran to the tree and started opening with all the excitement an almost three year old can have! It was so much fun!

Santa came!

his trucks and cars (all he really said he wanted)

he was pretty excited about the kitchen and pots and pans that Mommy and Daddy gave to him and Finley

the play food... Finley had lots of fun with this package

She liked this one!

That face says it all!!!! Notice he already had the dump trailer loaded up. When he saw the tractor in the front yard he said "huuu, tractor!" and started jumping up and down. It was priceless!

with his cousin, Zach

Emmett's Funny

On a daily basis Emmett says something that just cracks us up. I really want to remember these things so from time to time I may enter posts that are simply "Emmett's funny for the day". Really the whole reason I am blogging is because I want to remember the wonderful little things my kids do on a daily basis, not just the big events that I (generally) have lots of pics of. I realize that you may not always find what Emmett or Finley does/says funny but I hope you will!

Here's my firsts Emmett funny entry....
A couple of weeks ago Emmett came in our room around 5:30 AM. Murray took him back to his bed and laid down with him in hopes he'd go back to sleep. It wasn't working so Murray asked Emmett if he'd rub his back. Emmett sat up in bed, held his hands up and said "I can't I've got germs on my hands". Good one Emmett!!!!! Think I'll try that one next time Murray asked me to rub his back :-)

Halloween

So I'm a little behind on posting the happenings in our life.... it's November 23 and I'm just now posting for Halloween. Oh well, better late than never!

We were invited by our friends, The Steffek's, over for trick or treating. They have a great neighborhood for it! They also invited others that have children Emmett and Finley's ages. All total we had five 2/3 year olds and three under the age of 1. It was so much fun! Seriously ;-)

Emmett's costume was very last minute as what I had planned didn't end up working out. A friend loaned us a lion and I have to say he was the absolutely cutes lion I've ever seen. See for yourself in the photos below. Miss Priss (aka Finley) was a strawberry. She was so cute you could eat her, haha.

Emmett did not want to carry his bag so they'd hand him the candy. He thought he needed to open it and consume right at that moment. You can imagine his disappointment when we didn't allow that!

The Lion in action..... "grrrroooowwwlll"

He's a cute lion that hates the camera so I have to snap when I can

Mommy and strawberry

"answer the door, we want candy... please"

Emmett carrying his loot

Let me start by saying I LOVE fall!!! It’s such an exciting time of year…. football, cool weather (if we’re lucky), carnivals and holidays that involve friends and family. What more could you ask for !?!?!?!

We had a fun family day the Saturday before Halloween! We started by driving to Atmore for William Station Day. They have an engine set up that you can tour and see how it works. You can blow the horn and ring the bell too! Of course Murray wanted them to start the engine while he watched what they did (they obliged). Emmett was pretty excited about it but I’m not sure he fully appreciated it, yet.

On the way home we decided to visit the pumkin patch. Emmett had lots of fun moving the pumkins around. He’s such a worked!! Finley just had fun trying to eat the leaves.

Yea for Fall!!!!!!!!!!

Standing on the train

I just LOVE this sweet little girl!



Murray and Emmett listening to the bluegrass music. This was E's idea, he really loved it!

He loved moving the pumkins around!

Daddy & Finley (notice E moving pumkins in the background)

Wish I could get one picture with kids looking at the camera!

What happens when you tell a 2 year old it's time to go