3rd week of June, 2015

Gotta love the "cheese" face

Maxwell and dad playing badminton/baseball/tennis with the ball girl, Emmalyn

Helping daddy 

Playing with cousins.  Wish you could see Emmalyn's little cowgirl dress.  It's pretty cute.  :)

Look! Maxwell picked a strawberry!  That's two off the plant!

This is a very special cheerio.

Happy as a clam when surrounded by her favorite cheerios!

Enjoying her bottle

Sleeping sweetly tonight with his "special delivery bear"

Fun at Kindermusik

Soccer - - He's standing there for kickoff with his hand in his shirt.  Everyone else doesn't know this, but I know what he's doing.  He's self-soothing by touching his nipple.  When I see this, I know he's tired and ready to be done.

Ooh!  He's running.  Good to see he's got a little bit of gas left in the tank.

I was doing some weeding in the back and found a worm.  I got Maxwell to look at it and even got him to touch it.  

Snowcones!

Emmalyn is really aggressive to get what she wants.

I have been watching some teeth on her bottom right that are getting close to popping up and found that her big tooth next to her canine on bottom left popped through! Before her canine came in, too!  I couldn't believe I had missed that it was that close..

If you ask her what sound any animal makes, she will make a growling noise.

Maxwell and Emmalyn are engaging and talking to each other.  Maxwell makes her laugh, which I love.

It's fun to see Maxwell continue to grow and get more independent

Remember how Maxwell didn't call Peter "daddy"? Instead he always called him "Peter"?  Yeah...and people were super worried and uncomfortable with it?  Well, Peter is more "daddy" than "Peter" now.  It's a little sad to me.  :(

Maxwell is so great at staying in his bed and never getting out on his own (He calls for one of us when he wakes up and we go get him).  This week, he was in bed during a nap and he needed to go potty. So, he got out of bed, went potty, and went back and shut his door and got back in bed.  Nice although we couldn't believe he got out of bed on his own!  Not sure if this is a good thing or not.

I got a text from peter while I was gardening and Maxwell got my phone out of my pocket, read the text to me, and then called peter through Siri to answer his question.  Crazy that he can do all of that!

Maxwell and I were leaving and I was telling Maxwell that Daddy was going to take my car somewhere and he goes "No,  daddy's a crazy driver! He drives me crazy."  :)  funny!

I LOVE My Cheerios!

Here's the fantastic pics from the photoshoot I did with Emmalyn.  This was a mini-session my photographer was doing and seeing as how Emmalyn had the onesie and loves Cheerios, I couldn't pass up this perfect-for-her session. (One quick note about the onesie.  I bought it at General Mills corporate office in Minneapolis just a couple days after I learned I was pregnant.  I went with this one because I figured it could work for a boy or a girl. :))

I mean, isn't this the cutest thing ever!?!

This is my favorite!

She was so mad when we took her out of the bowl to go home.  :)

I used the pictures for a Father's Day present for Peter.

3rd week of May 2015

Maxwell's Kindermusik class has lots of homework this semester.  I'm awful at getting him going on in early.  Good thing I'm getting practice now before he's in school!  Here he is making a building with stairs and windows.

Not so sweetly sleeping.

Writing a letter to Pete the Cat at the library

Reading at the library

Multiple elevator rides are part of the magic of the library :)

My cute family.  

(Maxwell loves wearing his Diego bag.  This boy is going to rock a messenger bag someday.)

We stopped at The Snow Cone Lady for our first snowcone of the summer.  WOOO!  Max waited on the bench for us.

Video - Maxwell yelling at me and telling me he can't drive because he's not a grown up.  LAUGH

I think this may be Emmalyn's first snowcone

#truth

Enjoying some brunch 

She's unhappy because we aren't giving her food fast enough.  She just shovels it in.  I can't keep up.  I cut stuff for her and she's devoured it before I cut the next bite.

playing at the library with Landen

Enjoying Brittany's smoothie

I took Emmalyn for a secret photo shoot for a surprise for Peter (more to come on that...).  It's pretty dang awesome.

We made "ice cream" with frozen bananas, milk, and peanut butter.  EASY and YUMMY

Update on the kids recently:

Maxwell - 

Needs to have socks on his feet at night or he won't go to sleep

He's been scared of the dark lately at night in his room and wants the light left on in the bathroom so he can see a little bit.

Maxwell wants to cuddle and wants me to keep cuddling with him after he falls asleep.  He tells me he's keeping me and I can never leave.

Emmalyn -

She loves to eat fruit, cheerios, and water.  I mentioned above how much she likes to eat.  She will eat a bunch and then scream if she wants more or you try to get her out of her highchair and she isn't done yet.  She also loves to drink water, lots of it!

It's pretty painful lately to try and hold her and keep her entertained while on your lap.  She wants to be down and moving around.

She's doing great at listening and understanding.

She is pointing at what she wants and will scream if she's not getting it.

She is mimicking sounds and will mimic back to us her version of what we said.  She's very chatty!

She loves being outside and being in her bike.

She has super stranger danger.

I am still pumping at work and in the evenings. The stinky thing is that I only get 3-4 oz from those 4 pumpings a day.  It's pretty brutal but I'm sticking with it because I read that even only 3 oz of breastmilk still provides value to your baby.  So now, that is the only breastmilk she gets during the day and then Brittany gives her formula the rest of the time.  

She's starting to identify body parts like legs, chest, and hands.

Her favorite book lately is "bubbles bubbles".  She loves books.

She is walking about 3-5 steps now and she stood up outside all on her own without holding onto anything!
She loves to say "bye" and wave.
She's a Momma's girl and wants to be by me all the time.
She loves to sing!
She won't fall asleep and take a nap in the car lately.
She can go down the one step in the media room on her belly.
She loves to dump things out and can sometimes put things back.
Emmalyn's eyes are the color of Max's and she definitely has my hair, not Peter's.