Our Children's Ever Changing Lives

The past few weeks have brought lots of challenges and joys. I'll explain these pictures.

Top left - Audrey decided she was going to be adventurous and crawl thru the end table. I happened to capture the picture just as she was falling out on the other side! She loves to find something to crawl under or thru!

Our non-swimmer Emily, now loves the pool. She even stands in the pool, which it's only 3 ft tall and as you can see, is not a problem for Emily; however she wouldn't do it all summer until now. She now asks every day to go swimming and she makes sure to tell us how big of a girl she is since she doesn't need her tire tube anymore. She can walk by herself in the pool! Way to go Emily!!

The middle row of pictures are of Emily's tent that Audrey has now found great joy in playing in. We just got it back out recently and Audrey just loves following Emily into it and the 2 of them are having great fun.

The bottom couple of pictures are of Audrey getting into and playing with Emily's play food. Now, there is no shortage of play food in our house thanks to Aunt Cathy's Christmas gift a year ago. Audrey is now discovering all of Emily's hiding places including the drawers in her desk that we thought were a safe place - well it is now a safe place no longer. Audrey can open the drawers!

Audrey just had her 9 month appointment and is still growing like a weed! She is 29.25 inches tall (97 percentile) and 18lbs 10 oz (55 percentile). She's taking after her big sister!!

I am enjoying watching the girls interacting more and more as Audrey continues to grow up. It is so much fun to listen to them make each other laugh. I can only pray that they continue to get along so well!

Happy Belated Birthday Grandma!

We hope you had a great birthday. We were glad to have a birthday party for you tonight! Hope you enjoyed your outing to the Silverhawks game with the family!

Emily's Week at Grandpa & Nana's

Emily had to patiently wait her turn to spend a week at Grandpa & Nana's house. We met my parents half way and switched the girls. The girls were able to spend about an hour with each other, besides that, they spent 2 whole weeks apart from each other!

Emily loves being a helper at Grandpa & Nana's house. I'm still trying to figure out how I can get her to do everything she does at their house at our house! She loved spending time with Aunt Cathy and Uncle John. She doesn't get to see them that often.

Thanks everyone for taking good care of her! Emily is looking forward to her next week there already!!

Audrey's Week at Grandpa & Nana's

I'm a little late posting this, but Audrey enjoyed spending her week at Grandpa and Nana's house. As you can see from the one picture, she still was chewing everything in site. We were very impressed that Daisey (my parent's dog) and Audrey got along very well. Audrey isn't around dogs, so we weren't for sure how she would do, but they each tolerated each other well.

By the end of the week, I think she was missing mommy and daddy, but we were very proud of how well she did. Thanks Grandpa and Nana for taking good care of her!

What Can You Learn from a Kid's TV Show?

Plenty! Emily likes to watch Arthur in the afternoons when she isn't taking a nap. The other day the subject of the show was exercising. Well, as soon as it was done Emily told me we need to exercise. Now, I have been trying to exercise, it is just hard when you have 2 young kids, cleaning, laundry, cooking and work so it typically doesn't happen. I told her we would exercise after supper. Sure enough, as soon as supper was done, "Mom can we exercise?" So, we started watching my exercise videos (they have some great exercise videos on Comcast On Demand - just $1.99 a month and there are tons of free shows and videos). Emily decided they weren't interesting enough, so she started her own exercise. The next day, she told me again we need to exercise. So, we went outside and started exercising. Maybe she is going to be my exercise accountability partner?

Emily's Week with Mom & Dad

This week was Emily's week with just Mom and Dad. I think she enjoyed herself. We tried to do a couple of special things with her. In the pictures above, you can see she helped me make cookies, we went to the park to play and feed the ducks. She really enjoyed feeding the ducks.

Now Emily is at Grandpa and Nana's. I hope she has a fun week!

Weekend at Grandpa & Nana's

This past weekend we went to my parents house. We worked one day on the garage my dad is building. Emily and Audrey enjoyed spending time outside swinging and playing in the pool. The real purpose of this trip was to celebrate Cathy's birthday, but also to drop Audrey off. She gets to spend this whole week with Grandpa and Nana! It is sure different not having Audrey around, especially not having the morning wake up call at 7:00am! It will also be nice to have one-on-one time with Emily this week. She has me all to herself this week, so I'm hoping she will enjoy it. Then this weekend, we will switch the girls and Emily will spend next week with my parents.

Happy Birthday Cathy!

We celebrated Cathy's birthday when we were at my parents this weekend. Hope you have a great day Cathy! Hope you liked Emily's card :)

Outdoor Fun

Emily enjoys spending time outside. Audrey still doesn't know what to think! In one of the pictures you can see her trying to crawl in the grass without putting her knees in the grass. I thought it was pretty funny. Emily also likes to play tag. Fortunately on this night, we were both home, so we took turns playing tag.