Watching.....

...Daddy out in the yard:)



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Flashback Friday

September 2010 - We had just closed on our current house!

Wordless Wednesday

Today - September 26, 2012

March 28, 2012

Eight Months

 Emery - you are 8 months old today!!!

 

 

We don't go back to the doctor until next month, so I'm not sure of your weight.

You are still in 6-12 month clothing (depending on the brand) and size 3 diapers.

Your eating schedule changed this month. After church one day, you were not really interested in your noon bottle, so I just fed you baby food. I decided that day that we would try you on an 8:00 am, 2:00 pm, and 8:00 pm bottle schedule, and you did awesome. You are getting the ounces you need for the day, and I LOVE only 3 bottles a day. So now you eat a big girl lunch and a big girl dinner with bottles in between.

 

You want real food SO bad, so we are hardly doing any baby food. Sometimes I still do it if someone is watching you because you are a MESS with the table food, and I feel bad making someone else clean you up:) But when we are at home with you, you eat table food for lunch and dinner, and you EAT SO MUCH! Table foods that you eat/have been eating: turkey, cheese, grapes, bananas, oranges, freeze dried strawberries, sweet potato, butternut squash, avocado, cheerios, puffs, teeny tiny bites of cheese quesadilla, teeny tiny bites of Chick fil a nuggets (yes, she is so the second child. I think Meyers had CFA around 13 or 14 months)

You are a climber! You want to be moving ALL the time. I say this all the time, but you and your sister are SO very different as babies.

You totally think you are a big girl - not an 8 month old baby!

 

I can not turn my head for one second if you are not contained. You will happily play in your playpen for a little bit, so that is great! I can actually get the kitchen cleaned up from your meals while you are contained - it takes me forever to get your highchair clean after each meal:)

 

Your top two teeth came through last week, and it looks like the ones on each side of those are trying to come through.

You are still only taking a few tentative cruising steps, but you can actually take a few steps with a walker toy to push. Crazy! You are too little to be doing this:)

One of my favorite pictures from this month -

 

 I love how you sit on your little feet. It's so precious!

Meyers at 8 months

We love you so very much, Emery. You are our wild baby, and you keep us on our toes, but we are ALL crazy about you! Your sweet smile and your precious laugh just melt me. I am enjoying you being more independent because it makes you a happier, more content baby, but I can't believe how fast you are growing up!

Busy Weekend

This past weekend was so super busy! We had two birthday parties, Disney on Ice, AND our house went on the market Friday afternoon!! Other than cleaning, Friday night was low key since the rest of the weekend was so busy.

Goodness gracious! Our house stays relatively clean. I mean my baseboards might be dusty, but it definitely stays picked up. But getting a house "show ready" is for the birds! Ughhh!

Saturday morning, we went to Kenley's birthday party. The theme was PJs in the Park. All the kids wore their pajamas, played in the park, and ate donuts. Super cute idea! Meyers had a lot of fun, and Emery loved looking around outside and taking it all in.

Emery in her pjs

Meyers in her pjs

We took Meyers to Disney on Ice Saturday afternoon (Emery stayed home with Gran since it was her naptime). We met our friends for lunch before we all headed downtown. While we were at lunch, John got a call that somebody wanted to see our house on Sunday. So we basically were kind of distracted the rest of the afternoon thinking about all we needed to do to get ready for a showing. We were SHOCKED that somebody wanted to see the house not 24 hours after it went on MLS! We thought we had more time.

Headed to Disney on Ice

Meyers hopped back and forth between our laps the whole time.

Meyers is going to be Snow White for Halloween, so we had to get her a Snow White doll.

Meyers in her princess dress!

She crashed on the way home and that NEVER happens!

 Meyers had a lot of fun, but I think the part she enjoyed the most was when Mickey and crew came out at the beginning and before each act. She's just not quite into princesses yet, still all about some Mickey:) We came home and worked like dogs to get our house ready to show. Geez, I don't think my house has been this clean since.......ever:)

Sunday morning, we went to church, then lunch at my parents. We left Emery at my parents since we had a showing during her naptime. Meyers came with us because we had our second party of the weekend that afternoon - Bryn's 2nd birthday. We did some last minute things around the house, and then Meyers and I left for the party.

my sweet little pumpkins after church on Sunday

While we were at the party, John called and said a second person wanted to come see our house. Wow! It worked out that we had somewhere to be all afternoon, so John could show the house. Bryn's party was at a different park. Meyers was in heaven playing at the park again on Sunday. She had so much fun playing and celebrating Bryn's birthday.

 I slept SO good Sunday night after our crazy, busy weekend! Now if I can only keep my house perfect until we sell our house........

My Little Pumpkins.....

....after church on Sunday.

 

Emery looked like such a big girl today! I guess it was the overalls. And she wore shoes that Meyers wore when she was like 18 months old. That girl is going to have some big feet:) I loved them in their matching outfits today. I'm kind of obsessed. I wanted to eat them both today:)

Flashback Friday

 September 2010

Two years ago this weekend, Meyers got her tonsils out. She was 17 months old. It was completely traumatic - for us - she was a trooper!

 

Before surgery - happy baby

 

After surgery in our room

 

The next day going home and leaving the hospital in a wagon:)

Girls' Weekend

I got back yesterday from a girls' weekend in Nashville yesterday. Jamie thought it would be fun to go to the Kelly Clarkson concert, and she was right - it was so fun!
Six (Me, Ash, Brooke, Jamie, Lauren, and Valerie) of us headed up from Memphis, two (Erin and Abby) were already in Nashville, and Steph even flew in from DC for it! Steph's sister, Erin, was so sweet to let us ALL crash at her cute condo in West End (thank you AGAIN, Erin, for being a fabulous hostess!!!)
When we got to Erin's place, we just ate and hung out. Most of us that went are moms, so it was SO nice to be able to sit around and do absolutely nothing:)
We went shopping Saturday afternoon and then came back to get ready. It was pretty impressive that eight girls got ready with one bathroom! I managed to shower and get dressed in like 20 minutes. It's amazing how fast you can get ready when you are just dressing yourself:)




We ate dinner on the balcony at Sambuca. It was a perfect night for that! And the food was so good!




The Fray opened up for Kelly Clarkson. They were so good in concert. And other than Kelly's show being a little shorter than I expected, she was awesome live. Her voice is amazing! We had a blast - I always forget what great people watching there is at concerts!




We all said it felt like we were gone much longer than we were, so I'm thinking we all needed a little getaway with our girlfriends! We had so much fun, but it was great to get home to my three favorite people! I'm so thankful my girls have a wonderful, hands- on dad that can take care of them when I'm not there. It was so nice to be able to go out of town and not worry about them because I knew they were in good hands! I came home to a clean house and a "I don't know how you do this everyday" from John:)
Great weekend!
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Flashback Friday

September 2009 - Meyers hanging out in my sling:)

 She was 5 months old, and we were at Lainey's 2nd birthday party.

Wordless Wednesday

Almost.......

Emery's first time in the Barbie playhouse:)


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Whoooo!!!!

There's a road on the way to church and one on the way to school that is kind of "hilly". Meyers loves the "bouncy bouncy" - that's what she calls it. We all act like we are on a roller coaster. It's super silly, but fun. A couple of weeks ago, John told her she needs to put her hands up when we go over those parts. I turned around this morning on the way to church and saw this:


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Good Times

How funny is John's face here? He looks so funny, but he gave me permission to post it:) I wanted to document our fun time we were having on a date tonight. We tried to take like ten pictures of ourselves! John had the craziest faces in all of them. Then the flash was blinding us because it was so dark in the restaurant, and we were laughing so hard! Anyways, not funny to anyone but us, but we were cracking up!



We had a date night at the Butcher Shop tonight. It was so nice to get out just the two of us! And our food was sooooo good! The cheesecake with Cashew Crunch from Dinstuhl's on top will make you want to slap somebody it's so good!

Now we are home, and Meyers is back up. I rocked her first and now John is. It's so great to get away, but it's also so sweet to come home and love on your babies:)
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Flashback Friday

September 2007 - John and I at a Memphis game. 

I'm guessing it was cold that September by the way we are dressed. I can't imagine it being that cool right now:)

Meyers's First Day of School - 2012

 Meyers had her first day of school this week, and she was so excited to go. She couldn't wait to see all of her old friends from last year. She thought they would all be in her class again. I had to explain to her that some of her friends were in there, but some weren't:) She will be going two days a week this year to 3 year old preschool. I think it's more of an adjustment for me than her. She loves it already. One of days Meyers is in school, I have a babysitter coming over to watch Emery in the morning until lunchtime. I wasn't quite ready to put her in because it's a good part of the day (9:00-2:30). This way, I know I can make appointments, go the grocery store or run errands kid free for a few hours one day a week. We LOVE our babysitter! I am so thankful to have found her! I never thought I would feel comfortable leaving the girls with anyone other than family, but I do. It's so nice!!

 

 All ready to leave for school!

 I made Meyers's teachers "Back to School Survival Kits" again this year. I was a teacher, and I know it feels awesome to feel appreciated, so I wanted to give them a little happy on the first day of school:)

Meyers is obsessed with her lunchbox! I hardly got her to put it down to hold the chalkboard!

2012 - 3 years old

2011 - 2 years old

 

Wow! Where did my baby go? She looks like such a big girl now!!!