It was time to go do the Blue Bonnet pics again. I had to laugh when I went back and read the end of my post the last time we took blue bonnet pics. (click here if you are intrigued) Who knew that the circumstances would change?
I am so incredibly happy with how these pictures turned out! I hadn't looked at these pics, other than on my camera, until I wrote this post so I was pleasantly surprised. I love so many of them and could easily print and frame quite a few. I just love my kids!
Ready for the pics!
Wonder what she's about to point at
Emmalyn's like, "what is this crazy kid doing?"
Dad, right there ready to grab Emmalyn if the chair tips... What a great photo assistant!
Creepy pic, eh?
Don't worry baby girl, Daddy will always have your back
This girl loves cereal. Unfortunately it just becomes a messy ordeal in the morning when we give it to her. She spills Max's or hers all over the place and then eats it off the floor. Oh man...
Happy girl. She's so happy and cute, she draws lots of attention when we eat out.
I had to supplement Emmalyn's milk intake with frozen milk and some formula this weekend. I just don't have the output needed. :(
She waves all the time and has started blowing kisses.
I swear she says "yeah".
She is super cranky when you try to wipe her boogers and she produces SO MUCH DROOL!
She's demanding and screams loudly to get attention.
I got to read books to Maxwell's class during their library time this week. I took a pic as I was leaving and captured Maxwell blowing me a kiss. :) He's fine now when it's time for me to leave.
Jacek, Maxwell, Harper, and Malia
The other kids get excited when I come to read to them too. It's super sweet. They want to hold my hand or walk by me or talk to me. I love getting to know the kids that Maxwell goes to school with.
...and since I was out of the office already, I stopped at In-N-Out for lunch. Delicious!
My little swimmer - he loves swimming lessons.
Ha! Those baby shades are so big on her!
FINALLY!!! We had a soccer practice. We ended up having to rent space at the indoor facility but I am totally willing to pay a little bit to help get more out of this experiencing!
Cousins
My house is so dark. Here's how "lit" it is with the lighting installed by the builder. There are no uplights and the little solar powered lights along the path to the front door hardly do anything. It's been my biggest dislike about my house. I feel like it's not very inviting. So finally we are doing something about it!!! This is the "before" pic.
Here is the "after" with just the newly installed LED lights (that are on an automatic timer - - it's soooooo awesome! They come on when it gets dark and go off in the morning. I never have to turn them on or off and I didn't even notice a change in my power bill!)
And the full "after" with the new lights and the old lights. I love it so much!!! I am incredibly happy with the lights on the house and the lights on the path.
She loves her time at the park
Video - Emmalyn is so different from Maxwell in that she loves puppies! She's super cute in this video and then a stroke of luck, we caught her very first "kiss" on video! She figured out how to make a kissy sound!!! and boy is it cute.
So tired that she fell asleep before the end of our bedtime routine.
Maxwell basically stays dry now at night. He may have 1 wet pull-up in 3 weeks.
One morning this week, he woke up and called for me like he always does. So I went into his room and he wanted me to cuddle. When I got up into his bed he goes, "There's still hair you can touch." because he wanted me to play with his hair. :)
She loves playing with books in the morning when she wakes up
Miss Mary Ann and Jared came to cheer Maxwell on at his soccer game. We are so blessed to have such great neighbors!
We were planting our spring flowers and Mary Ann was working on her yard outside as well so Maxwell decided he wanted to take a bunch of flowers over to give to Mary Ann so they planted them together in her front yard. She was so great with him and let him plant them even though they didn't match her other landscaping. He was so happy! (I think he had more fun helping her than he did me!)
Helping Momma water after everything was done.
All planted and ready to go
Hopefully we'll have lots of pretty flowers soon!
There's been so much rain lately that lakes are starting to fill up. We went on a random drive toward the closest lake until we found it. Of course, once we got there, we didn't have much to do but at least we saw the lake.
He found a walking stick to use on the way back
Happy to be outside
She's looking so big to me here!
Gotta love that belly
However when you see her in perspective to other things, you see how tiny she is!
You can see her trying to say words when you prompt her.
She's standing forever and I saw her pivot today and move one foot - - getting closer to walking!!!
Her screams quickly make me crazy. Ugh, girls.
Maxwell and I were talking about long tails in the car, and I mentioned that monkeys have long tails. And Max goes, "At splash academy, the kids that were tigers got tails." (He was referencing the circus put on by the kids when we were on a cruise) So I asked him what tigers say (because I have been trying to get him to say "ROAR" since the cruise because he didn't say it when the tigers were up on stage). He goes, "I can't tell you but if you ask Emmalyn later, she can tell you." ha! can't fool this kid!
Wife, Mom, and Career Woman. Trying to succeed at all three. Enjoy cruising, time with friends and family, and sleeping. Busy life doesn't leave time for as much fun as in the past but that's okay, it's still a good life.
