Minnie's Boutique

Emme has a container full of Minnie Mouse dolls and accessories. Gideon LOVES playing Minnie Mouse with Emme.

The dog is Gidon's favorite toy. Which explains the giant string of drool!

Emme always sets up Minnie's boutique

Picking out clothes for Minnie and Daisy is very serious business

Gideon is so happy to be playing with Emme

After Emme dresses all of her Minnies, she lines them up for a fashion show. Gideon tried to attack the show! Luckily for Emme and Minnie, Gideon is not very quick yet. Thankfully Mama was able to intercept him before he caused total chaos and destruction.

Waiting on the Bus

Yesterday Dustin came to the bus stop with us and experienced "waitin' on the bus" first hand. According to Dustin we are hilarious, so he took pictures to document how awesome and hilarious we are. I had always thought we looked pretty okay standing there on the curb. But now that I have seen these pictures, I understand why everyone who drives by smiles and chuckles. We look like quite the ragamuffins! I am sure Dustin is thankful that he doesn't have to be seen "waitin' on the bus" with us every morning!

Happy Halloween!

Embry Elizabeth

Emme has recently started speaking in complete sentences. It is awesome to be able to understand what she is saying. The things that she says and the way she says them are hilarious. Emme has a somewhat deep little voice, and she talks like a gangster. A gangster who follows everything she says with the Bollywood head wiggle. She makes me giggle all the time. Some of my favorite things that she says are:
"Where you at mom!? I look for you and I not see you." (she says this to me about a thousand times each morning while Elijah is at school)

"Elijah! He step on me!" (said while very passionately acting it out)

"I poop my pants!" (Emme likes to yell this when it isn't true because she likes to giggle at me when I start to freak out)

"Mom! You poop your pants!" (yelled pretty much anytime other people are listening)

"Auntie N! What you doing at your house?" (Emme asks Erin this every morning over and over again)

"Where Grandpa at, I know he home somewhere?" (Emme talked to grandpa on the phone one morning before he left for work, and now she is convinced he is always home hiding from her.)

"When Dad coming home mom? He miss me very much. I think he need me hug him tight." (Emme says this all day while checking out the window to see if Dustin is home)

"I miss Lijah very much Mom. And I know he probably miss me too" (said every morning when Elijah excitedly leaves her at the bus stop)

I love Emme! Everyday is an adventure with her. She is a feisty, opinionated and extremely stubborn little girl. But she is also extremely kind and very loving. She worships Elijah and she loves her baby Dideon. She is a huge Daddy's girl, she waits all day for him to come home. She gives the BEST hugs! Her hugs are second only to her daddy's hugs, and I think that is just because she isn't as big and can't squeeze as hard as him yet. Emme is a beautiful little girl inside and out, and we love her just the way she is.

Gideon's 6 Month Stats

Gideon now weighs 16lb. 9oz. which means that he only gained one pound in the last few months. But he has grown quite a bit in length/height, and is now 27in long.

Elijah wanted me to take a picture of all three kids together so that everyone can see that even though Gideon is getting bigger, Elijah is still the biggest. LOL

Family Day

Today Elijah's class had a family day. Dustin was able to get a few hours off so that just he and Emme could go. Emme was very excited that she was going somewhere without "Baby Dideon." She was telling me very excitedly all morning "I go school with Lijah and Daddy, but Baby Dideon has to stay home!" Everyone had a great time. Elijah was very happy that Daddy was able to come to his class and meet his friends.

Happy 6 Months Gideon!

Today is Gideon's 6 month birthday! Gideon is still a very happy and content little guy. He does still prefer his Mama to other people, but he will accept Elijah as a substitute when I can't hold him. Gideon loves his kids! If he can see them or if he thinks he is playing with them, then he is usually very happy. Gideon is a great sleeper and thankfully we have only had a few rough nights with him in his whole little 6 month life. I have been trying to get him to sit on his own, but he still is much too interested in his own feet to stay upright. LOL He tried solid food for the first time a few nights ago and he wasn't too impressed. The kids loved that he was eating "real" food! He was  much more interested in the giggles and squeals they were making about him eating than he was in actually eating. Gideon is working on some teeth, so he has turned into quite the chewer. EVERYTHING goes in his mouth. Gideon loves getting kisses and he opens his mouth now and gives his own slobbery sorta kisses in return. He loves getting hugs and squeezes. The last few days he has been getting up into the crawling position, but he hasn't crawled quite yet. He is still very content with rolling and he gets around pretty well that way.