Second week of September

Cruising the neighborhood in the neighbor's ride

Maxwell had a ton of fun going through the neighbor's Pokemon cards.  He is really getting into those cards.

Not sure why her whole body is tanned 'cept her bum.  It's not like she's out in the sun only in her diaper.

The school asked for volunteers to help during Kindergarten lunch to help the kids as they get used to eating lunch there.  I took the opportunity to get to see Maxwell at school.  :)

His lunch box is all set up waiting for the kids to get in there (at 10:30 am!).  

His friend Avery

He was happy to see me

With his lunch

Landen at lunch.  It's fun that they go to the same school.  (Note the mom in the background totally feeding her child... I was taken aback to see that.)

I spent my time at the school opening juice boxes, wrappers, getting utensils, letting kids go to the bathrooms, etc.  

Doing some pushups with uncle Joe

Tennis lessons!

She's tall enough to get some water out of the fridge - crazy!  She just doesn't know when to stop, which is a mess.  She loves having ice in her water.

We visited the pediatrician.  I have no idea why at this point...it's been too long.

Movie night

Brittany's birthday!  Joe got her this delicious bouquet from Edible Arrangements.

Peter finished up his major project replacing the lining on the roof of his car.  

Enjoying the weather outside. Wonder where her shirt is???

She had her baby doll too

Emmalyn got a big bike from the neighbor.  It's still a little big and she can't totally do it, but she's very excited about the baby doll seat on the back.

Finger paint fun

Trying it with some paintbrushes

Maxwell painted the letters for his birthday photoshoot all by himself

I wanted Emmalyn to wear this super cute dress that she hadn't worn yet and she threw a huge fit about it.  I finally told her I'd take it off if she would let me take one picture.

Here you go.  Cute dress, cute girl yet the two shall never meet again.

My awesome cucumber and my pathetic strawberries.

Just so you can see how little they are - they are next to a sour patch kid. 

We went to dinner at Chik-Fil-A for Maxwell's School Spirit night.  It was super full of kids - just craziness.

We then went to sonic for ice cream for Grandma Donna's birthday

Update on the kids.
Maxwell gets up in the morning without calling for us to come get him and has been doing it for about a month because the webcam in his room is broken. He used to come in and let us know he is up but he doesn't even do that all the time anymore.  Instead he just gets up, goes to the living room and gets on his ipad.
Emmalyn wakes up grumpy and crying each morning but can quickly shift to happy if you get her out and talk to her.
She's saying 6 words sentences frequently and uses words like "both", "already", and "too".

3rd Week of May - Foodie Date Night

Playing Puppy Dog is a favorite past time

I had my big team meeting.  It went really well and for one of our activities we went to an escape room.  My group did not make it out in time - I hated failing!

Cute hair courtesy of Britt

Landen graduated from preschool and Emmalyn went to his graduation

Those curls!  I still can't believe she's got them (and I'm still not sure what to do with them!)

Peter and I went to an awards/celebration for top chefs in the DFW area because our close friend Tida was nominated for an award.  It was a pretty fancy event with some amazing food.

We tried lots of stuff but, despite eating sushi lately, Peter wouldn't eat these pieces of raw fish.  I had one and it tasted fine - not fishy!

We always love hanging with Tida and it was really fun to be able to cheer her on and support her.

Her gorgeous macarons

There was a booth where they were printing pictures onto cookies so we got ours made.

The group celebrating Tida

Emmalyn "tracing her hand"  (Yes, that's her birthday banner still up a month past her birthday.  Oh well.)

Playing our adjusted version of Yatzee.  Max wants to play all the time.

Cuddling with her dad

Found Emmalyn hiding in the corner with her ipad

Maxwell's friends from preschool Joshua and Lucas had a costume party and invited the kids.  They both had a great time (Emmalyn did not dress up).

They have the best yard and playground.  I'm totally jealous!

These faces are everything!

There were games, food, and extra costumes to wear!

Little miss bossy

A treasure map to find the treasure box!

She not only fits under the ottoman, she also fits under the bed! (Good thing she didn't look up at the wall, I just noticed there's a binky back there that must have fallen behind the bed.)

Trying out a puddle jumper

Playing in the pool with Owen and Avery

They jumped off the rock many, many time.

Well, that's doesn't look comfortable...

Emmalyn still says "Butthead" a lot.  We are trying to get her to say "silly goose" instead.  Timeout doesn't work to stop her because it doesn't bother her. She just sits there, no big deal.  Now we are trying another approach and instead ignoring it.  It's hard because I know she learned this word from Landon :(  She also has learned to say "I hate you" from him too.  Lovely.

The kids have had a few different babysitters lately and done great with it. They've had Bridgette one night, another night they stayed with Britt and went to sleep at her house (on a school night!) until we came to get them and then Mary Ann watched them for a bit one day.  It was the first time she's babysat them and she said they were perfect.  I'm really glad that they are easy going and we can leave them with a babysitter!