Mother's Day

I had the BEST mother's day. I felt very loved that day. It started out with Aydan coming in in the morning giving me a gift card for a few massages! (from daddy of course, but it was wonderful). Then Justin said we should leave early for Lauren and Drew's house and go over to the Galleria to the Cheesecake Factory for brunch, yum!! It was beautiful weather and we got a seat outside, such a nice meal. We then spent the day with family and friends! Aydan had a lot of fun playing outside, so much that he fell asleep in the car after 5 minutes. We had a nice evening at home that night. Great day in all!


Here's a picture of me with my two blessings that really made Mother's Day what its all about!

Emma's 2 month appointment

Emma was 2 month last Thursday. She had her appt. on Friday. The big SHOTS day, booooo. She did really well with it actually. She had like delayed crying, but as soon as I held her hand and talked to her, she calmed down. She was a little crabby the next 24 hours, but she was sooo brave and dealt with the fever afterwords so well. yay!! Break my heart to have to have her take that pain in.

At 2 months, she is 11.1 lb, in 75th %. And almost 2 ft, the 97%. Yup, that's right we're going to have 2 crazy tall kids. Doctor said she's as healthy as can be. She's doing great holding her head up and that of course she was so beautiful! hehe.

LOVE her smile here. She sticks her tongue out when she gets excited, its pretty cute.

Getting Aydan to eat.. grrr!

Well I'm ready to admit that Justin and I did a bad thing for our son already. Aydan is the slowwwwwest eater ever. And to just get the meal over with quicker we have always just spoon feed him ourselves. He's totally capable of doing it himself, but he play and chews slowly (like hr and half on his own, goo), so we hurry him along and spoon it in, remind him to keep chewing and to speed it up basically.
But now with two kids, I don't have time to sit and spoil him rotten anymore like that. So the last week and few days, I've been trying to break him of it. NO toys to the table (distractions). He gets his meal, spoon, and fork and he has to eat everything on his own. Sometimes I put a cartoon on in backround. He has to leave the table occasionally for time out. Some meals still take over an hour, but some good ones are only 30 minutes. We're getting there. We did it for so long, so it may take awhile to break it, but I'm sticking to it! He may always be a slow eater, but he'll eat on his own, or his won't eat! As his grandpa says (a doctor), he'll eat when he's hungry, he'll be just fine. :)

Emma's Sleeping habits

So.... I have been blessed with two great children. Aydan was a such a good baby, slept well, hardly fussed, etc, etc, etc. Emma is not as good as that, but she is still such a good baby. She's so happy in the morning and smiles at me already, melts my heart!!!
She has been sleeping in her bed for about 2 and 1/2 weeks now. I've been back at work for over a week now, and she since the 2 day back at work, she hasn't eaten anymore during the middle of the night anymore. The 1st night I did it and she then didn't want to eat at 6/630 when I got up, so I stopped that right away, ha. The 2nd night, she made me go back in every 30-45 min to give her back her passy.. but by the 3rd night, we were in buisness!! She sleeps from around 8:30 until 6:00-6:30, yay!!! She of course has some off nights and gets gas before bed (such as last night) and then she fusses til 10 or later to fall alseep, but I still feel so LUCKY to have 2 great sleeper babies!

Emma's Baptism

Emma's Baptism was last weekend. It finally stopped raining that morning for it. We had some family and close friends come for the ceremony at church... which was also a very nice service too! I proud to have my daughter baptism!!
Emma's new godparents are Will and Beth Sandusky, and I'm sure be a great guidance for her to look up to.

I don't have the church pictures of her yet. Going to get them from my sister-in-law tomorrow. But, this picture is her back at the house in her princess dress. We have people over for snacks and lunch, so she was styling for that too. I'll get a picture of baptism up eventually. 

It was a great day for Emma and the beginnings of her faith to come!