Here is a snapshot of this mornings goodies. Here is the list:
She has an amazing swimsuit body! When we were at my grandparents my grandma gave me all the ingredients for a lemon meringue pie. Along with her amazing meyer lemons off her tree she gave me all the fixings and encouraged me to try and make it at home even though she has never made one! And guess what. I did it! It worked and it was pretty darn good. My nephew Benjamin loves lemon pie so I brought it to him and we tried it together. He gave it 8/10. I was pretty proud of myself!
She is so fast I barely got these pics! And remember I said she pulls herself up! It is so funny to see such a tiny little thing standing on these skinny little legs! But man is she cute!
She loves to sleep on him, it must be because he is so big and strong. She loves her daddy and I am so grateful he is there for her when I cant be. My heart goes out to moms who have to use daycare for their little ones. I know we are so lucky. How did we make such a cute baby?
Emolyn is easily pulling herself up and loves to bounce on her knees. She loves cords and wires. She can wave and clap and rubs her hands together like they are cold. Her very favorite thing to no is shake her head "no" to any question. However she does not like it when I saw no. Hence the tears.
She loves the independence of cherios, who doesn't love feeding themselves. She wears 6 months size clothes easily and she loves trash, mostly paper. Here is her playing in the trash under the desk when I was trying to answer emails. She moves so fast!
And she has 2 new top teeth. I used iphoto in an attempt to turn her upside down to let you see them but she was so entranced by her own picture she would hardly open her mouth!
We love our little girls so terribly I cant imagine how big my heart would get with another. And how hard to split your time between children. But we are still planning for more, not this minute but eventually. I am trying to memorizer every minute with her in my head because she is changing so fast and I love the new things but I am sad the old things are gone too.
Stockings are sort of a huge deal in my family, santa comes to my moms house and thats where we get them. We always do stockings first and my mom, i mean santa goes a little overboard and usually our stockings are overflowing. It is filled with thoughtful unique gifts for each of us catered to our likes. But we have to wait until everyone is ready to open them and Jason notoriously takes a ridiculous amount of time.
Emolyn loved spending time with her Aunt! They have so much fun together EKT cries when I come to take hr away!
Uncle Jason of course is fun too as are her cousins. We love spending time with family and it was so great to have the Thompson clan join us for dinner.
Guess what I just talked, sort of, to Miranda in England! Check out her blog to keep up on her comings and goings!
Here is my fist waffle in the new waffle iron. Turned out great!
I didn't get a chance to photo all my decorations but I have been creating a tree collection the last few years and I got 2 more trees after Christmas this year. Maurice ate my feather tree last year which is a bummer because it was pretty cool.
I didn't get to decorate very much this year, that was left up to Shawn since he had more time at home. But I did get a new idea from Stacie about how to display my christmas cards in a fun way, so I got out my christmas ribbon and started pinning the cards to it. Unfortunately I couldn't keep up with the cards and next year will need 2 ribbons. She also saves the cards and puts them on a ring by the year and puts them out to display during the holidays and everyone loves coming over to see their old cards.
I hope you all had a happy holiday season. I know we did. I really tried to relax this season and not stress out. It didn't always work but I felt more laid back then usually. Shawn and I both really enjoyed this year, probably our best Christmas together yet, Emolyn probably had something to do with it. We love being a family and getting to spend time with each of our families too. We got to have Christmas dinner together as one big family and it was so much fun to have everyone there, and of course great food. Linda made an awesome rum cake which was the hit of the party! And now as we transition happy spring cleaning to you all as you try to find a place for all those new gifts!
I wish we would have taken a family photo because everyone just looked so cute. Miranda and Linda were matchy matchy!
Tyler had to ;leave a little early for work but we had a beautiful Christmas dinner together with hame and Mamaws special raisin sauce!
Emolyn gave the best gift by taking a nap on Randy's chest. But you couldn't keep her down for long she was up quickly and ready to watch her daddy play guitar at Christmas eve service at church. She stayed for both services and did awesome.
