Sunday, December 31, 2017

2017

This year has been one of the best yet.

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Friday, December 29, 2017

Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year! Natalie and Max ran into our room at 6:00 am to report that Santa had come before they ran back out to the living room to start going through their stockings. Santa brought the big kids each their own easel, and they each got an extra roll of paper for their easels as one of their stocking stuffers. As we were rolling out of bed and grabbing a sleeping Emma to join the fun, we heard Max find his roll of easel paper as he announced with much disappointment, "Oh man! Santa brought me wrapping paper!"
 
Natalie wrote "Santa came!" on her easel right away, but it's hard to see in the picture.




 


Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Ten Months

Emma is ten months old today! She suddenly seems so big, and I'm begging time to please slow down because I think I could relive her babyhood over and over and over again.


How many months in a row can I gush about how sweet she is? She has us wrapped around her little finger, for sure. Lately she has been going by more names than just "Emma". The big kids and I also call her Em, Miss Em, Emmy, and Em Em.


She has two teeth with a third starting to poke through. She is getting braver with her walking every day, but she still prefers to crawl. She refuses her pacifier these days, which has made naps a little harder. She gets really excited when Chris comes home from work, she waves bye bye, and she absolutely hates getting dressed. 


She eats just about anything we put in front of her. Her new word is "mmm yum yum," which actually sounds like "mmm mum mum". She says it almost every time she eats. I had just given her a puff before I took this picture, so here is her "mmmm" face:


She loves to play with the big kids and will probably be a pretty tough girl because of it. Today Max told me that he loved Emma all the way up to the moon, and I'm pretty sure the rest of us do too.

Friday, December 22, 2017

Thursday, December 21, 2017

Christmas story time

The kids got to wear their jammies to a fun Christmas party at story time yesterday. Usually Natalie is at preschool Wednesday mornings, but she has been really excited to get to go to story time again over Christmas break.