Aria drew this picture in a journal she created at school. She showed it to me this evening. I love the fish bones and the cat's happy face...it makes me smile. It's so fun to see her drawing skills develop over the years.
Leaf time!
This is Abby, my parent's new cat. The kids love her and she loves the kids.
We made our yearly batch of apple sauce.
Apples, apples and more apples.
This is Emmett's finger, he is such a boy.
Hey Aria - your boat is upside down. Haha!
Emmett, Grammy and Pop Pop
What's fall without a visit to the farm?
Coloring pumpkins.
Emmett was a dragon and actually liked wearing his costume...he is a bit particular about things.
Taking a little taste of the goods.
Emmett was very focused and finished the entire tootsie roll pop...with more than 3 licks, I might add.We got the kids' school picture proofs today. I know I'm biased, but I can't stop smiling whenever I look at them. :-)
This last one I KNOW was all Aria's idea.
After about 2 weeks, Aria got tired of having a loose tooth, so she pulled it out herself at school yesterday. She was so excited when she woke up the next morning, and the tooth fairy left a note, and a WHOLE QUARTER!
Emmett's been increasingly interested in the potty these days. For the past month he's been using the "little potty" the same time as big sister does before bath in the evenings. He's usually successful about half the time. After he goes, we all join in a "Pee pee in the potty!" song and dance. He loves it! Aria loves to get into it too, which I think get the most reaction from Emmett since he really looks up to her.
This morning was a first. He woke up with a dry diaper! We asked him to use the potty and after some encouragement, he was sitting up on the "big potty" and going! Yahoo! Go Emmett!
* Sorry for the lack of updates...more will come soon!
Emmett is 2!
This is typical Emmett. Squashing the ants.
Everyone loves a balloon!
Each kid got a little remote control robot.
Emmett did a great job blowing out his candles. So great that we lit them again so he had a second chance!
No cake for Emmett, he only likes the M&Ms (and thank goodness because we found out that he's allergic to egg whites)!
Robot Cake
Cousins. It's his party, he can cry if he wants to.As Emmett gets older we are finding the kids playing together more. They still constantly fight over toys and bug each other, but they have moments when they play so nice together. Each time I feel like getting the camera to show them they DID get along at some point :-)
We went to Grammy and Pop pop's cottage for Easter weekend. It was rainy and yucky on Sat so we did an egg hunt inside, but Sunday was beautiful!
Before the Easter weekend we went to Philly to visit Aunt Jennine! First we went to the zoo. Our favorite exhibit was the Naked Molerats! They're gross! After spending the night, we went to the Touch Museum in the morning. We had a great time there too. Thanks Jennine for the fun visit!
Naked Molerat
Shopping at the Touch Museum
Enjoying a lunch and lollipop break
Water play! Thank goodness for the spare clothes in the diaper bag :-)
HAHA!
Earlier this month, cousin Felipe and family came down for a visit and stayed at Grandma and Grandpa's. Aria had some special bonding time when she stayed 2 nights with all of them, but without us. They both are growing up so much and it's fun to see them play together. One of the mornings when both Aria and Felipe where awake before the adults, they went downstairs to play together :-) So cute!
Fort time!
Some weightlifting with Grandpa.
"Look at my big muscles!"
