Fun with Friends

Mom and I took a break from daycare and school and headed up to Julie and Hailey's place for some lunch and play time! Wheee!

Drum Circle!


Hailey has the coolest toys!!!!!!!!!!

We interrupt this expanse of nothing...

Hello blog world -
I am such a slacker blogger. Which is due mainly to the fact that I am NOT a slacker anywhere else in my life...I let the blogging slide because nothing else can! :)
School has been totally brutal - way harder than I even imagined it could be. I hope that I get it together in my A & P class or else Mama's gonna have to look for a new job...er, figure something other than Nursing school out. Yeesh.
I know you all come here because you care soooo much about me, but I figure I'll bore you with a few Emmett details. Twist my arm, why don't ya!
Emmett is totally hilarious these days...he has been for quite a while now, but his little personality gets better and more defined every day.
Just this week he has started:
- putting our cell phones up to his head (back behind his ear) and saying, "heyyoh." It cracks me up every time;
- when he wants out of his crib in the morning, or after nap time, yelling, "heyyoh," among a lot of other unintelligible things. Sometimes you hear, "go" in there. Pretty darn cute;
- he's learned he can stand up on his push car and walk around. When he does this he looks up in the air, high toward one of us, and smiles this HUGE grin, dimples and all. He is very, very proud of this accomplishment;
- when he is in his high chair, if the dogs come into the kitchen, he yells, "GO!" really loudly at them. The dogs are not allowed in the kitchen when he's eating, otherwise he throws all his food to them;
- he figured out how to crawl up on the Halloween decoration tote while it was out in the living room. Which led to him crawling from there onto the chair and then up into the window. Yeah - it's only a matter of time!

Recently, he saw his first snow fall. OK, probably not his first, but the first that he was aware of. He was totally intrigued by the white-covered world and the cold of it all.
Emmett continues to be obsessed with all things electronic: the TV, the DVD player, the clock radio in his room, the baby monitors, pretty much anything with a cord or a remote.
He also LOVES to take his toy cars, or blocks, or books and run them all over the walls. Very cute, very funny.

That's about it from these parts! I promise to try to update more!!!!!
Peace out ya'll -
Hill

Summer fun!
This is a picture of E and me at our dear friends, Shellan and Josh;s, wedding. It was an amazing wedding - complete with my totally tearing up multiple times throughout the amazing ceremony. Ah, such a sap!
Cheers to everyone -

Tweet

Hello everyone -
Well, I am back ins chool and thus, totally bogged in with studying and working on my smarts! :)
However, I've subscribed to this twitter account b/c it makes me laugh out loud pretty much every time. It's written by a 20-somehting guy who lives at home with his parents...one of which is his 70-something dad. Hi.lari.ous.

Perfect day:

E and I had a perfect day this past Wednesday. He took lots of naps, was generally happy, and Charles and I got the bike trailer hooked up to my bike! Which meant that when Mickey called to see if we wanted to meet him for lunch, I said, yes! And we jumped on the bike (and in the trailer) and off we went. (Well, we weren't particularly speedy on the hills, but we made it.)
Uncle Joe and Mickey picked up sandwiches and we met them at the park for a picnic. It was truly lovely - definitely hot in the sun, but perfect in the shade. On top of all that, Mickey surprised us all with a cannoli, which is one of my favorite things in the world (well, a good one, anyway).
As we were getting ready to ride home, Mickey spotted some of our good friends (The Belote sisters!) and they took the following picture of E's first trailer ride:

Emmett was not such a fan of the helmet, though he did much better with it on the way home. He talked the whole ride home, as well. It was a very interesting story, with lots of "dat!" happening throughout.
Whheeeeeee!

One year

Dear Emmett -
I'm writing to you on your first birthday to tell you how much I love you. I know, I know. You're so used to your mama telling you this, that it seems normal! But I have to recount the last year and how amazing it has been to bear witness to.
I know I've told you before, but you were hard to come by! Your daddy and I struggled to get pregnant with you and when we did it was a total surprise. Since birth, you have shown us, again and again, your stubborn side. And I like to think it was that stubbornness that made you hang on and make it all the way to your birth date!
I remember those first few days with you at the hospital...though they get hazier and hazier with every passing day. You were tiny and LOUD! One of the nurses told us that you didn't sound like the other newborns (umm, yeah, your parents are pretty loud, too!). When we came home, despite your teensy weensy little body, you were totally in charge. Over the next few months your mama and daddy slowly but surely rearranged their lives around you and everything your being entailed. Sleepless nights? Check! Worried days? Check! Moments of ridiculous adoration??? Check! Check!
You have spent the last year growing into a funny little guy with loads of personality. We thought you were so adorable when you came home from the hospital...ha! If we only could have seen the little ham you've become. You have the best blue eyes and the most adorable dimples. Every time I'm out and about with you, people stop to comment on your mischievous grin and killer dimples...so I know it's not just me!
The past few months have been action packed for you: you've learned how to army crawl, and now really crawl. You've had your bottom two teeth come in and now your top two teeth are poking through! In the last week or so you've even started to pull yourself up into a standing position...walking can't be far behind. You let us know when you're unhappy, either with a crazily shrill shriek or with your newest temper tantrum style (legs kicking, BIG crocodile tears, and lots of yelling). It's really, really hard not to laugh...though I feel like this might make you even angrier.
The poor dogs were just getting used to you, as a baby, being in the house. Your newest trick with Ginger is to lay still on the floor looking at her, and then when she seems comfortable, lunge at her and crawl as fast as you can She is not such a fan of this move and tends to run off, skittering across the floor. You actually laugh at her when she does this... Olive, on the other hand, is locked in a constant battle with you over who will be the one to eat the dog food out of her bowl. Some days, if I'm not watchful enough, you totally have her beat! Other days, mainly the days I lock her food dish with her in the kitchen, she totally owns you. Sorry, but dogs have to eat, too!
Some of your favorite people are your two uncles. Both Joe and Charles can get you to smile when no one else can. When they come in the house, you light up and grin all big at them! they love you a lot, too, and will do anything they can to make you smile.
Recently, you've been going through a phase where strange things startle you and you begin to cry. Strange things like, kazoos. Yup. It's true. The coffee grinder is also not a favorite, though you can manage if I warn you it's about to happen ("ready, E, ready?"). I think you'll grow out of this soon enough, but for now it's a little bit nice to have to cuddle you so often.
I can't wait to see what this next year brings...you are sure to keep surprising us and showing us what you're made of!
I love you so, so much, little man -
Love,
Mama

Ah the baby deer legs...

E has mastered the art of standing and is now working on cruising...but crawling is so much FASTER!