Catchin' Up!

OK... so here goes! :) I've been away too long post everything that's gone on in our lives the last month... but here it is in a nutshell... a very small nutshell!
Christmas was wonderful at our house! Santa brought Avery a Thomas the Tank Engine Railway and a play kitchen!

Santa brought new clothes, books and rattles for Emerson. Mommy got an awesome gift from daddy that she totally wasn't expecting... a Nintendo DS! All I can say is I'M LOVING IT! (And no, that's not one of the reasons I've been neglecting the blog.) :)

And here's the newest member of our family...

No, the girls did not get a puppy for Christmas! My husband would have a heart-attack before that happened... so would our cats! But I guess they kind of did get a puppy - according to my brother. He got a mini-doxen and named him Jordie, after Michael Jordan. He is soooooo precious as you can see and such a good boy! My brother got him "so the girls could have him" he said, but he lives with Uncle Brian! :):)

Miss Emerson Paige turned 5 months on January 13th:

Just last week she started some solids... rice cereal and bananas! She is loving it and I'm so happy for her. For the last few months she's been on this really yucky formula that she has gotten used to but it's disgusting. Yeah, I tasted it.... I really feel for her, it's nasty. But it's been the only thing to help her poor tummy and each day she's become such a happier girl. So this was exciting. Seeing her love her "nanas" filled my heart with JOY! We call her the "EMINATOR" as in the Terminator!!! She is hilarious, she ROARS at us and is such a ham! She is crazy about Avery! Just today she played on the floor for 15 minutes on her tummy while Avery "cooked" food in her kitchen for Em:

Emerson is usually only happy being in mommy or daddy's arms! She does not like to be in the swing, exersaucer, Jumperoo, on the floor... NOTHING! So I was so proud of her laying here playing with Avery for that long! She is a sweetheart. Such a snuggler and lover! Em's sleeping very well at night. She goes to bed by 6pm and sleeps till 10-11pm then eats and falls back to sleep till about 6am. Mommy's getting a lot more rest these days!


One of Avery's favorite thigs to do is play the Wii with Daddy! She loves to watch us bowl and here she is shreddin' it up with daddy on his favorite game: Guitar Hero!!

She loves posing for the camera lately too!

There it is! Promise I won't stay gone for that long again! :):)