Exploring the Unknown...

Emory is becoming very curious about her world. She lunges to get things with no regard for her safety, if you move things out of her sight, she looks around you to find it again and she is not content just sitting in place and playing. She really is an amazing little girl. She loves exploring our family room, and recently she rolls by our back door and plays. Today she was just laying there giggling.

Emory is slowing getting here and there with her "crawling." She looks very concentrated about making it to the remote.

Emory is also exploring many other new things. She has always been fascinated by ceiling fans, well I guess that has just progressed to her chandelier. I can understand it though, she is a girl and it is shiny. We only let her try to reach it because it is far too nice to have her pull out of the ceiling.

Emory and I have been letting out a friend's dog name Scout during the week and it is fun to see their reactions to each other. Both are happy initially, but interest fades as we are there. The really tough things about letting out Scout is Emory likes Scout's toys and Scout likes Emory's and I have to keep things separate.

The most recent thing that Emory has explored lately is......

HER NOSE!!!

Our little baby is growing up...

The past couple of days Emory has seemed to have grown so much and is moving so much more. The weekends are so wonderful to have Grant home to help with our busy little bee, and she LOVES playing with him. They have such silly games that I would never even think of that Emory has so much fun with. I think my favorite is when Grant puts a purple monkey on his head and pretends to sneeze to make the monkey fall off, which for some reason always gets a smile.

Emory prefers to be standing now, the interesting thing is she stands on her tippy-toes. What cute little feet!
Here is an example of how Emory is growing, pajamas that don't fit. Notice the legs being too short, but the best part is the ruffles that are suppose to be on her bottom... not so much!
This is the perfect picture of Emmy, smiling with her fingers in her mouth!!
We have a moving baby! She can do circles, move backwards and if she is on the wood floors she can go forward. I don't have a video of her moving forward, but it probably doesn't look like what you think, instead picture an "army crawl" where her legs stay straight out behind her. It's very funny to watch. We are so proud of Emory, she is learning so fast!

Real Bananas...

We have started introducing finger food to Emory, she has been loving cheerios so we thought she would really enjoy feeding herself bananas. Nope. It's safe to say she hates real bananas. I don't know if it's a texture thing, taste, or the smell but she was not a fan. Let us show you how things went...

"These aren't my cheerios..."

"No thank you!"

Getting a good picture of Emory's tooth has been VERY difficult. You can only see her tooth with a really big grin or when she cries and it seems we miss the opportunity all the time. Here are two pictures that if you look closely you might be able to see it. We will keep trying!

Two weekends ago my friends from high school, Jenny and Traci, came to Dallas for a visit. Jenny has a little girl named Abby who is 3 days older than Emory. I didn't use my camera much but here is a picture of the girls playing. We all stayed together at our friend Sarah's house and it was a great girls weekend (including the addition of our daughters). Abby was a very good girl and would go to bed on time, while Emory who supposedly is getting her second tooth, and is starting the separation anxiety phase decided to take hours to fall asleep. At one point she won and I brought her back out to the other room with us. I guess she was very happy not to be sleeping and Jenny started tickling her, which she thought was hilarious. Needless to say we stayed at our house the next night.

Daddy's Day Off

Hi Mommy!

Today Dad has the day off and thought he would blog about his and Emmy's day together. We did the usual stuff (eating, napping, playing, reading), but we did a few other things as well. First, I finally lowered the crib like I've been talking about doing for a week now.

Then we played with the new toy from Nanny Dess.
Emmy started feeling the need for speed so we raced around the house in the diaper box we found.
It was starting to get dangerous, so I figured Emmy should wear a helmet...

Of course, she hated the helmet so went without.

Next I tried to get a picture of Emory's tooth. This was hands down the least favorite part of her day and mine. I did get a good picture of a chinful of drool though.

But then we played on the couch and everything was okay.
We love you Mom. Come back from work so we can play some more!

5 Year Anniversary!!!

This past Saturday was our 5 year anniversary! Yes, it is hard to believe Grant has put up with me for that long but here we are. We decided to change the restaurant for our anniversary this year (we always went to Reunion Tower before) so we went to one of our favorite places, Kona Grill. After dinner we were planning on seeing our first movie in the theater since Emory was born, but the thought of sitting there for 3 hours was not appealing. We ended up at my favorite ice cream place... Dairy Queen. What a wonderful night. Ryan and Jenny watched Emory for us and things couldn't have gone better. Jenny's sisters, brother-in-laws and her niece Julianne were staying with them so there were plenty of people to keep Emory entertained.

"I'm ready to go Mom and Dad..."Here are Emory and Julianne playing.

Julianne was so excited when she got back to the house and saw Emory there. Emory was amazed by Julianne and kept watching everything she did.

Thanks for watching our little girl!!

8 Months Old!!!

Emory is now 8 months old and things are changing fast! She is much more aware of her surroundings and is very vocal about things that she wants. So far she has one tooth, but I am sure the rest will follow shortly. No crawling yet, but Emory rolls to get here and there. Things have been fun and more busy than I ever imagined at this age. Emory is just silly and she keeps us laughing, we feel so lucky to have such a happy baby. Where are you going baby?


Here is a glimpse into my life with Emory. You would think sitting in a chair and taking pictures would be boring.... apparently not for her!

Hello Abi!!!

On Sunday we took Donald and Angela some dinner and got to spend some time with them as a family of 3. Abi is so well behaved compared to our almost 8 month old who wants to be constantly played with (and the teething doesn't help). We always enjoy hanging out them and love seeing our little girls interact, even though we keep Emory a safe distance away so she can't hurt Abi.

Abi was such a sleepy little baby...

Hello Abi, we are so glad that we got to see those beautiful eyes.Both daddy's were busy at dinner time. Donald was really helping Grant with feeding Emory while Abi just watched.

Thanks for letting us come over, we had such a good time!

Carson is 1 year old...

This Saturday we went to Carson's birthday party and we had a great time! She loved playing with all the "boy" toys and seeing Carson crawl around. She is still trying to figure that whole crawling thing out. Carson had a baseball themed party so Emory wore her Texas Rangers jersey, with a skirt and pink tennis shoes to make sure no one thought she was a boy.

Emory really liked this sports ball pit, we put both the babies in there and they started making baby noises with each other. It was so funny to see their "conversation."

Emory also liked Carson's new truck. The truck has a hard hat, tool box and a tailgate that folds up and down!! She wasn't too fond of the hard hat though....

Carson took the truck for a spin.
Happy 1st Birthday Carson!! We had a great time at your party.