six months

miss emory elizabeth, i think you were born with superhuman powers. the power to make time fly at a rediculously fast pace. i know the calendar says you are 6 months old, but mind mind can't comprehend it.

at six months
-you are up all all fours and rocking back and forth. we are SO not ready for this!
-you eat anything i give you, except applesauce. but you'll chew on an apple all day! i don't understand it.
-you say da da da da and uh nah nah uh nah nah. (i'm just going to pretend you got your m's and n's confused and you're really saying ma ma ma)
-every day someone comments on "those big eyes!" and "such long eyelashes!"


-you get extremely excited at the sight of our kitty. and if she gets close enough that you can touch her, well that's just the best part of your day i think.
-you are still nursing full time, and i don't see us stopping anytime soon.
-your brother and sister fight over you all the time.





-the only real nickname you have is em dog, your brother came up with that (surprise surprise!) and calls you that all the time. your sissy has started to pick it up too.
-you do not like to be on your tummy. you'd much rather be sitting up and watching what's going on.
-you are happiest when we are out and about. you can go and go all day running errands and just be as happy as can be. at home you fuss more easily and get bored. gee, a social bug? i don't know how that happened? :)
-you have three teeth and i think you'll have another very soon.

we all love you so much. if i could freeze you right now, i think i might. i know any day now you will start crawling, and in that moment you will grow up right before my eyes.

we love you punkin.

you might be a redneck.........

if your husband finds out a friend hit a deer and he asks where and immediately leaves to go get it.
true story.

fun conversations with my babies

blake-mom, do you know what (i thought he said who) i'm going to be when i grow up?
me-well i hope you're still blake
b-no mom, WHAT i'm going to be.
m-oh, well i can probably guess
b-a football player
m-that's what i thought
b-yep, i'm gonna play football
m-well, i think there are a lot of things you can do when you grow up. i'm interested in making sure you're a good husband and daddy.
b-i will be. i'll learn from dad.

the other day camryn said several times "i don't want to be 5" and each time i replied with "i know, i don't want you to be 5 either. can you stay 4?"
by the end of the day she was still saying "i don't want to be 5" so i asked why?
"i don't want to wear underwear" she says.
i had told her the day before she HAD to wear underwear when she went to kindergarten.

what a PERFECT night for halloween. can i get an amen? it was just cool enough to feel like halloween, but not cold enough for anyone to even need a coat. piles of leaves lay in yards, and sidewalks were covered with some blown from the breeze. it was perfect!

we gathered with the usual bunch, neighbors and friends, for dinner before heading out. the girls were butterflies, and blake was james bond, and then a steelers football player. for weeks he's been saying he was going to be a steelers football player. two days ago he announced he wanted to be james bond. i told him i didn't care, but he'd have to figure out a costume. he insisted on being james bond, so he scrounged up whatever he could find around the house. well, about five minutes after we got over to the neighbors he asked if he could run home and get something. he returned in pads and a steelers jersey. whatever makes him happy!

the butterfly


double O seven

heith went as me



and i went as heith


very flattering, i know.

this little butterfly just came out of her cocoon and was very sleepy :)



happy halloween!

today was a good day. ok, if you start my day after 11, then it was a really good day. before 11 i had to take my baby girl to have a tooth pulled :( she looked so sad afterwards that i drove her straight to toys r us. but after that, it was a really great day. my mom came down. we hung around most of the day, we played a few games of clue, and introduced emory to a sippy cup.
later we went to the mall where i redeemed my free pair of undies (thank you victoria's secret) and my free lotion (thank you bath and body works) how fun is it when those free things come in the mail at the same time and you get to go to the mall to collect them? it's like you went shopping but it's free!
on the way home heith called, "where are you guys? i'm home already. do you want to carve pumpkins tonight?" yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!



we ate chili, carved pumpkins, and while carving pumpkins came up with the idea to ding dong ditch a few of our neighbors. we filled baggies with treats and made notes that said "happy halloween from a few little pumpkins". the kids were SO excited! we ran from house to house, in the rain, ringing doorbells and running away.

to top it all off, i got to have not one, but TWO conversations on the phone! i can still hardly believe it. this is a HUGE deal b/c i have gone way too long without talking to so many people. (facebook conversations don't count!) both of these ladies are friends very dear to my heart, and i found out both are pregnant! i could not be happier for these two. both have suffered heartache and waited so long for this. i can't wait to find out what what they're having!

yep, it was good day.

i have a child who hates clothes. please tell me someone can relate to this. this has been going on for as long as camryn has been able to talk. it used to be just socks. until just recently she threw a fit every time i tried to put socks on her. i even used to cut the feet off of her tights, thankfully there are footless tights now. unfortunately this problem has gotten worse instead of better. she refuses to wear jeans(she currently doesn't even own a pair), occasionally wears socks, her leggings are always "giving me wedgies!" and underwear is an absolute no way, will not do it. i've tried to pick my battles, and in doing so have chosen to lose the underwear war. now i know a lot of people are going to disagree with me on this one, i've seen many shocked faces on friends/aquaintances when i say she doesn't wear underwear. but really, does anyone know if she has on undies or not? and is it really hurting anything? of course she wears them under dresses, if she has to. but she'd prefer to wear leggings or tight cotton shorts.
now she's not one of those kids that is stripping her clothes off whenever she can, in public, friends houses, etc. when she's dressed, she's dressed. it's just finding something that she'll wear that's the problem. she won't wear jeans, only "soft "pants". i thought i was doing so well with her fall/winter wardrobe. i bought her several long tops in different colors and several pairs of leggings. they all coordinate, so it's pretty darn hard for her to not match. pick a shirt, pick any leggings, BAM! she's done right? nope. she has about two pairs of leggings that she wants to wear and has some kind of complaint about the others. OR she will try to pick out a shirt that is normal length (not long or a tunic) and try to pair it with leggings (instead of sweats) which if she doesn't have on undies, you can see her booty b/c the shirt isn't long enough and the leggings are cut lower. uuuuuuugh, i just can't win.

husker through and through

the day after a horrible loss, a true fan:

proudly wears red
practices his tunnel walk
plays backyard football all day pretending to be a husker QB

GO BIG RED

pumpkin patch!

woooo hooooo! i forgot my sister in law took this picture! and i love it! this is our one and only picture of the pumpkin patch this year.

snuggle in with a blankie b/c i'm about to unload on this post. i'll start with fact that my baby is 5 months old. i'll give you few seconds to take in that sweet and precious face! oh my goodness, i can't get enough.


she's a full blown hip rider now, there's no cradle carrying this little lady anymore.


she's learning


eating cereal, bananas, and avocados


and earlier today i felt her first tooth.

while i'm celebrating the milestones, i'm sad too. she can't be almost half a year old! i just want ALL of my babies to stay my babies. life is moving way too fast. i mean so fast that the tooth i felt earlier today i can feel even more this evening. SLOW DOWN PLEASE!
the other day camryn grabbed my hand and said "best friends........forever" i melted into a pile of goo right there. the same day blake asked for axe body spray while we were at the store. the conversation went something like this:

B- mom can i get this?
M-why?
b-it smells good
m-are you sure you can handle it?
b-yeah
m- are you sure?
b-yeah why?
m- because, if you wear that you're going to smell good and the girls are gonna want to be by you. are you sure you want to do this?
b-mmmmm yeah.
two days later i walked past his room and he was doing this silly dance and spraying himself. then he started doing jumping jacks.
m- what are you doing?
b-the can says if exercise while you spray you smell better
he said it so serious and innocently that it was really hard for me not to laugh.

one of the kids thinks i'm the coolest thing ever, one is still young enough to want to be my best friend, the other is a teenager in an 8 year olds body. each is such a fun stage for different reasons.

the highlights of the past two weeks were our trip to the pumpkin patch (i forgot my camera! gasp!) a date night for heith and i (the first in months) game night with some friends, and blake's sweet interception that he ran in for a touchdown

running


look closely over the refs shoulder. blake intercepts the ball


sprints down field


stretches far for the touchdown

i have no shame. i'm the jump up and down yelling for my kid kind of mom.

the queen herself


referred to me as her servant today.
"servant, can you hang my clothes for me please?"
"i'm ever so sorry my lady, but that is your responsibility"

that's all for now.