Second week of January 2015

Jan 8 - Jan 12, 2015

Eating her veggies

She shoves her food in

I love this little stud

If you look at her gums you can see the teeth that have popped through - 

Her front left tooth FINALLY popped through the skin

Practicing with scissors

The mask he made

Video - Since our time on the North Pole Express, Maxwell has loved singing "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas".  I caught him singing to himself.

Gotta love that winter-never-going-to-stop-runny nose

One of the photo mugs I made for Peter for Christmas.  He loved them which makes me super happy.

Cousins playing with cars at Hayden's basketball practice

such a happy girl

I love that it's cold enough he can finally wear his cute winter warm clothes

We have been letting Emmalyn sleep in our bed since she hasn't been sleeping so soundly, we are trying to get more diligent on making her sleep in her own bed.

One of the best things ever about having a baby and then nursing is that you get to go like a year and a half without a period!  Well, that blessing is now over for me, darnit.

Emmalyn won't say "guh" anymore, instead she's all about saying "Buh" and she sort of says "mama" but not all the time.

We do the kids bedtime routines at the same time and when it comes time for cuddles, it is seriously a fight between them over who gets to cuddle with Momma.  It's pretty funny because she's only (almost) 9 months old!  But she will crawl over Maxwell to get between the two of us or she will crawl up to my pillow and then force herself between us.  It makes Maxwell so mad.

There is a girl at work, Angela,  who I have worked with for a few years and she had her daughter a little more than a year before Emmalyn.  Anyway, when I got back to work she was still pumping and there were so many women pumping that those who were comfortable with it, sometimes paired up and pumped together since the room was constantly being used.  Anyway, Angela was still pumping when I came back to work and we often pumped together.  She reached out to me recently because she had a bunch of stored, frozen breast milk that her daughter wouldn't drink anymore and wanted to know if I wanted it.  I checked with Peter to make sure he would be okay with me giving Emmalyn someone else's breastmilk and he said yes.  So, I took everything she had.  It was over 40 bags with at least 4 oz in them.  It was such an amazing gift and so very appreciated.  My supply is slowing down and having that extra milk has alleviated a lot of stress.  I still have plenty of milk frozen but I'm no longer pumping enough to meet her daily needs and starting to rely more and more on the frozen supply.