Emmerson 7 Months

Monday, Emmerson was 7 months old.  It doesn't seem like it has been 7 months, yet it feels like she has been in our lives forever.  Anyway, she is crawling, yes crawling.  A couple weeks ago she started trying and for a week now she has been crawling on her hands and knees.  She also can pull herself up which she likes to do in her crib, when she is suppose to be going to sleep.  She just seems too little to be doing all this!

And she still won't eat baby food.  I am taking a break right now to see if that helps but she would NOT eat it.  She would spit it out, turn her head, close her lips, and cry.  And I may have tried a little too hard.  So, maybe we will try again soon.  But right now she does love puffs, has tried and ate a couple peas, and sucked on an apple in one of those mesh baby feeder things.  Maybe we will just skip the baby food?  I also tried putting a little formula in her bottle the other day and she broke out in a rash around her mouth and on her chest.  I am thinking maybe she is allergic to cows milk?  We should probably get this checked out.

She still isn't sleeping through the night. The other night she did do 8 hours which was great!  She just wants to eat and goes right back to sleep.  Soon we will have to do the cry it out method and I am not looking forward to that!  It did work with Ollie though.

She already knows how to fuss and cry to get what she wants or if Ollie is bugging her.  It is so funny sometimes.  Yesterday she was sitting on the floor playing with a toy and she just started laughing, then we would laugh, then she would.... so cute!  That little personality is already showing :)

Someone told me the other day that she has never seen a little girl look so much like her mom.  I hear Ollie too though.  Must be a good mix...

We love you sweet little Momma's girl!

Mackenzie's Birthday

So this post is a little late because Mackenzie's birthday was December 21st.  Oh well, I still want to get it up and share some pictures.

For Mackenzie's 8th birthday we celebrated at Pizza Ranch.  She was so excited and we had a fun time sharing in her joy...

Mackenzie with her friends.

Blowing out the candles.

The little boys.

Daddy and Emmie.

Mackenzie opening the robe we got her.

I love this picture my mom took!

We love you Mackenzie!

Christmas 2012

Christmas was so wonderful this year but super busy!  We had 6 Christmas's in 8 days.  It was great to see so much family and catch up with some we hadn't seen in a while.  Ollie enjoyed opening gifts a lot more this year and Emmie just liked the wrapping paper.  Such a fun time celebrating our Savior's birth!  Here are some of the pictures...

Emmie loves her cousins.

G&G Massner with their grandkids.

Grandkids with families.

G&G with great-grandkids

Allie with Emmerson.

Ollie having fun with his cousins.

Christmas Eve games.

Annual Christmas morning stairs picture.

Stocking fun.

Present time.

Sweet Emmie girl.

Playing Trouble.

Ollie with his new Bears jersey and tractor.

Ollie and Jake with their new helmets!

Dad and Mom -Love you!

Best buds.

Love the Ipad!

Love uncle Dusty.

Right before we went sledding behind the Gator.

Brrrrrr.....

Having fun at G&G Wiese's.

My girl and I.

Sporting their new flannel shirts.

Aunt Abby and Uncle AJ got to celebrate with us!

Ollie loves Aunt Anna.

Ollie wanting Luke's Ipod.

Opening gifts.

Boys.

Girls.

Family picture. (Kids had just woke up and we were bribing Ollie to smile.)

Our family Christmas... stocking time.

Toy Story fruit snacks.

Playing with her stocking.

Two cuties on our Christmas morning!

We are so blessed!

6 Month Picture

Oliver- 2 1/2 Years

Oliver is such a fun sweet little boy.  He is talking, talking, and talking and is doing a good job of saying "please" and "thank you".  He is really into playing with cars and tractors.  I have noticed that he is really starting to play with his toys and can entertain himself for quite a while sometimes.  He still LOVES watching movies.  His favorites are Cars, Toy Story, Veggie Tales, and he just watched A Bugs Life aka "Jumping Spiders" and is still talking about it.  He often asks to watch a movie on the BIG ONE which is the big tv downstairs instead of the small one in his toy room.  He loves his "Baby Girl" and does such a good job with her.  We are now working on sharing with her :)  One big thing that we have been doing is only giving him his paci when he sleeps or when we are in the car.  He is doing a lot better than I thought, only asking once in a while and has only had one meltdown.  He has been having fun playing in the snow with Andrew and had so much fun getting ready for Christmas.  He got to decorate his tree in his toy room and loved helping me make sugar cookies....

Love you so much Ollie boy.  You are such a blessing!

Emmerson 6 Months

I can't believe Emmerson is already six months old!  She is much more petite than Ollie was... that word was never used to describe him :)  At her 6 month checkup she weighed 16 lbs 2 oz which is in the 48th percentile and was 29 in long which is in the 98th percentile.  She is wearing 6 to 9 month clothes and some 6 to 12 because her arms and legs are long.  We started feeding her cereal a couple of weeks ago, even added a little banana or peas and she still doesn't want to eat it!  She started sitting up about a week after she turned 5 months and is a little mover.  She loves to be where the action is.  She is taking 2 or 3 naps a day and once in a while sleeps through the night.  She is really starting to be a momma's girl.  If someone else is holding her and she sees me, she will get really excited and fuss until I hold her.  She also gets excited when she sees her brother.  She loves "playing" with Ollie.  She is a very good, sweet, smiley little girl and we are enjoying her so much... 

first time eating cereal

We love you so much baby girl!