We sure live in a great neighborhood with some great neighbors. It seems that there's always some party at least once a month at someone's house. We got invited to a Super Bowl Party at some friends' house down the street.
Headed to the party
Max showing some personality (or super hero moves, I'm not sure which)
Max was really into playing with the barbies - it's the first time he's ever been around them. I'm sure when Emmalyn gets a little older, he'll have plenty he can play with at our house too.
Back at home, both kids focused on their toys
Look at the pic of Max above and then look at the pic of Emmalyn below. These two definitely have some similarities.
Emmalyn and her Momma
...always wanting to put those fingers in my mouth
photobombed by dad (Maxwell is the photographer)
Brittany and Joe and their boys moved out of our house this past week. While it's nice to have my house back to just my family and it's much quieter, I will miss having them around. There were a lot of benefits to having them live with us -- didn't have to take the kids anywhere when I went to work, Brittany was an amazing chef and often cooked, she helped with the housework, the kids always had someone to play with, Peter and I could go on a walk at night together and leave the kids sleeping in their beds. Brittany just moved 7 minutes away so she's still close.
Emmalyn and Landen playing in Britt's new apartment
With Chef Brittany living in her own apartment, we had to start cooking dinners again. Here's my first one. (Bourbon chicken and fried rice)
Here's another meal I cooked, chicken pasta with broccoli and side of asparagus. Hopefully we can get back into the swing of things and keep cooking versus doing a ton of takeout.
Look how much natural curl my hair has. Ugh...I want my straight hair back! The curl seems to get more intense each year.
Emmalyn started Kindermusik!!! She loved her first class.
I am so excited to be able to start going to Kindermusik with her. Her class is right before Maxwell's so Peter will bring Maxwell at the end of Emmalyn's class and we will switch kids. I will stay at Kindermusik with Maxwell and he will take Emmalyn home for a nap.
That's a pretty big mohawk
So tired after Kindermusik that she fell asleep without her sleep sack
We went out on a double date with Andrea and Jeff. We had a great time at dinner and then hung out and visited until late.
We got cupcakes at a place where they inject and then frost them in front of you based on the flavors you choose. They were delicious!
It was a big week for Emmalyn - on the first of February another tooth broke through. It was her second tooth on her bottom left. (I think that was her 7th tooth) Then on the 4th, her first tooth on her top right finally broke through. It's so big and looks so painful!
She is starting to follow some commands like if I tell her to give me her binky or go give her daddy a kiss. She is absolutely a morning person and is so incredibly happy in the morning.
After 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Max turns into a whine machine. He's just so tired but yet fights taking a nap! He doesn't want to feed himself or he doesn't want to eat. He cries and whines - ugh!
He was reading little books with his dad and said, "I don't care." He's never said that before. I am not happy about that - where did he learn that?!
Max has woken up with a dry pull-up in the morning 3 times and twice from a nap. Maybe we are getting close to where he can stay dry when sleeping?? (or at least close to where he isn't using the pull-up to pee in when he wakes up)
