Thursday, December 20, 2012

Emma – 8 to 11 months

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Emma, at 8 months:

  • you still just the two little teeth on the bottom
  • you wake up once a night to nurse, usually sleeping around 10-11 hours total

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  • you are starting to army scoot around

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Emma, at 9 months:

  • you are such a smiley baby, and we can’t get enough of you sweet smile!

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  • you LOVE your blanket, especially the crocheted edges. You are in your happy place with a binky in your mouth and your little fingers rubbing the edges of your little turtle blanket.

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  • weight (fully clothed while getting flu shots): 17lbs 0oz
  • you’re a good eater (so nice to have one of those in the house again). You pretty much out-eat your older sister at every meal

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  • you also love to bite it

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  • those bright blue eyes catch everyone’s attention
  • you are an army scooting expert and can get pretty much anywhere you want – even up the stairs
  • we’re still working coming back down the stairs. Luckily you’ve only fallen down a couple steps a few times.

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  • you don’t like wearing headbands- it was quite a miracle that you left it on long enough for me to take these pictures

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  • you made your first sign – “all done” – I was one proud Momma

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  • you love your sister (most of the time). You get frustrated when she tries to force you to do things

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….and she’s off…

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Emma, at 11 months:chb_3197

  • we were in Utah for your 11 month-day so my talented brother, Corey took our family pictures.
  • you have two more teeth! Two on the top, to make a total of 4. And you haven’t been sleeping well so we think there’s probably more on the way.
  • you’re crawling!!
  • you like to pull yourself up to standing every chance you get

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We can’t imagine our home without our sweet little peanut!!

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Family Portraits

While we were in Utah, my talented brother took our family pictures at Wheeler Farm. He did such a great job!chb_3197chb_3206chb_3223chb_3239chb_3255chb_3324chb_3342chb_3358-cropchb_3358chb_3393chb_3423chb_3447chb_3439

Thanks Corey for capturing our ever-changing family. I love them all!

Thanksgiving 2012

We drove to Utah for Thanksgiving.

Everyone wrote down what they are thankful for on a leaf to put on the “Thankful Tree.”

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Lily had to concentrate really hard on hers. Smile

We ate at my sister Sharlie’s house. Everyone in the family was able to make it except for Justin who is away at college playing B-Ball like a champ.

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A little pre-dinner scrimmage. Lily had no idea what she was doing, but loved being outside with her cousins all the same.

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Jason and Ben

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Mom and Jeff discussing proper turkey carving technique and the best tasting part of the turkey.

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The food line-up. Everything was scrumptious!

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Emma spending time bonding with the cousins

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Digital Toys – tablets, i-pads, and kindles

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Pie!

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My brother Jeff is not capable of taking a nice picture – this is the best I got. Nice.

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More digital toys

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The fun continued that night at the Chapman’s. The girls love having all the cousins to play with when we visit Utah.

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The next day we played an exciting game of Bingo, complete with prizes thanks to Nina!

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Poor Elise was having the hardest time getting BINGO even though she stuck it out longer than any other kid. Jason started just calling out the numbers she needed so she could get BINGO.

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Jaycee supervised the caller, making sure he said the right numbers.

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My winning card!

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Lily loves spending time with her Papa.

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The tire swings

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My family has had these swings for as long as I can remember. My Dad has cut and replaced the tires throughout the years and all the kids love these swings.

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Playing piano with Grandma Nina. Oh how I wish we lived closer to her so she could teach Lily how to play.

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Just hangin out with Saley in the bathtub. With all their clothes on :)

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Nothing fishy going on here…

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Gracie loves all babies.

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Fun times with Daddy

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Driving back home.

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