Welcome Aunt Jodie and Cousin Jenna!

April 28, 2007 - Finally Aunt Jodie and Cousin Jenna arrive from Holland for 3 weeks!!! Yeah!!! Emmalee had not met her cousin Jenna and had not seen her Aunt Jodie since she was born. Emmalee had no problem figuring out who they were. Emmalee immediatly gave Aunt Jodie big kisses and started eating her chin!!! She must have thought it tasted good! We are very happy to have them here! Emmalee is looking forward to having Aunt Jodie and Jenna babysit for a couple of weeks! We sure miss Ome Jan and cousin James!!! We are counting the weeks until they arrive! Love always, Jill and family!

Shifting Gears!!

I don't have any pictures right now but I did want to share Emmalee's newest first. Emmalee has been moving/crawling backwards for about a month now but as of about 10 minutes ago she shifted into forward and moved about two feet forward. She was crawling to either get her Binki or Papa Jim's bling bling (ring). Just thought we would share! I will post more pictures soon! Love always, Jill and family!

Happy Birthday Mamaw!!!!

Today, April 23, 2007 is my Mamaw's birthday! She is a true Taurus!!! I mean that in a good way. She is very strong willed and did what she felt was best for her family! My sister again said it best! Mamaw is another amazing women! Mamaw has two children, three granddaughters and five great grandchildren!!! We love and miss you!!! We hope your birthday is wonderful!!!! Love, Jill and family!

Happy Birthday Grandma Margaret!!!

Today April 20, 2007 is my Grandma Margarets 89th Birthday! My sister said it best.... She is an amazing women. Grandma has 3 children, 7 grandchildren and 12 great granchildren and 2 on the way. (My cousin Jenny is pregnant and my cousin Terry is adopting). We love you and miss you Grandma! We hope you had a wonderful day! Love always, Jill and family!

Meet Chopper and Chipper

Nana Phyllis really wanted everyone to meet Chopper and Chipper so she took a lot of pictures in the hopes that they would make an appearance. I think Emmalee loved having all of the attention. Finally Chopper and Chipper came out of hiding. You have to look closely! Emmalee thinks that now that she has Chopper and Chipper she should be able to eat big people food. She scooted/crawled over to where her brother Bradley was eating his burrito and grabbed ahold of it and rolled over to have some. She wasn't to happy that we would not let her eat it. Emmalee is eating cereal with fruits in the morning and cereal with vegetable at night. She is doing really well with solids.... I can't beleive how quickly things change! We love everyone!!! Only 10 days until our Aunt Jodie and cousin Jenna get here. We wish Uncle Jan and cousin James were coming too. We will see them in July so I quess that is okay.

Love, Jill and family

C21 Spring Picnic

Last Sunday the 22nd of April, Century 21 had their Spring Picnic. We had a great time. It was a beautiful day... except for all of the wind. Emmalee wore a very cute spring outfit with a hat... she actually left the hat on for most of the day! Her big brothers took her into the bouncy before all the other kids arrived. Emmalee is just like her Daddy... she can sleep anywhere! It was a terrific picnic as usual. Emmalee wants to Thank Papa Jim, Nana, Grampa Tom and Grandma Diane for such a fun day!!!

Easter was a very long day....

Easter was a wonderful day! Emmalee played really hard! We put her in the swing while we ate (she had already eaten her meal....) Her cousin Sue could not stand to see her sleep like this so she moved her and woke her up! Isn't she cute!!!

Love Jill and family

HAPPY EASTER!!!!

We all want to wish you and your families a very Happy Easter!

We hope the Easter Bunny brought you lots of Goodies.

Emmalee got lots of Bunnies to play with.

She does not know what to think about this dress thing.....

(and her Daddy said she was going to be a girly girl!)

Love always, Papa Jim, Nana Phyllis, Rob, Jill, Josh, Brad and Emmalee

Nana's trip to Mississippi

Nana went to Mississippi for a week to see Mamaw, Papaw, Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Margie. Papaw and Uncle Jimmy went to Starkville for Papaw's 68 year High School reunion. Nana had a wonderful time and took lots of pictures. Jodie she is starting to take after you and me... I don't know if we can handle the competition.! We love you Nana!!!! Here are some of the pictures she took! The sign is posted over near where Grandma Nina's house use to be. Love to everyone from Papa Jim, Nana Phyllis, Rob, Jill, Josh, Bradley and Emmalee

BOY HOW TIME FLIES!

Today Emmalee is officially 6 Months Old. It seems like just yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital. I can't remember not having her! She is a very happy, loving and precious little girl. We went to the doctor yesterday for her follow up from having the ear infections and pink eye. Dr. James went ahead and did her 6 month check up while we were there. Emmalee weighs 17 lbs 10 oz and is 27 1/4 inches long. She is doing wonderful. The doctor asked me if she was sitting up by herself and I told him that she was with assistance. He sat her up on the table and she sat and played and made a liar out of me. I then told him it was the therapist in me providing the contact guard - stand by assist needed. Well that is all that is happening around here.

I just got some pictures off of Nana's camera. Emmalee had a blast taking a bath in Nana's sink. Here are a couple pictures of her playing in the water.

We love you all! We hope everyone has a very Happy Easter! We hope the Easter Bunny brings you lots of fun things!

Love, Jill, Rob, Josh, Bradley and Emmalee

Two new additions!

Okay, now I have you thinking... what could it be now. Emmalee has 2 new things and we call them Chipper and Chopper.... Can you guess what they are? On Saturday March 31st Emmalee cut her first Tooth (If you said teeth - you were right!!!) The bottom left tooth finally decided it was time to make a clean break! I think he felt lonely and encouraged his neighbor to come out of hiding and see for himself because on Sunday, April 1st the bottom right tooth decided to appear. Emmalee is so funny because she is not sure what to do with her two new teeth, except keep them hidden by her tongue. She sticks her tongue out every time you try to see them. As soon as I am able to get a picture of them I will share!

ROAD TRIP!

On Friday March 30th Emmalee and I went on a road trip to Dewey, Arizona to see my girlfriend Jo Crawford and her son Shane. I also went up to teach a CPR class. While teaching Jo's Mom and Mother-in-law CPR, Jo played with Shane and Emmalee. Shane is almost a year old so he is 6 months older then Emmalee. They were very cute together. Shane crawled all over the place and Emmalee watched him wondering.... hey how are you doing that. I want to do that too. They were so much fun to watch, we laughed so hard. Shortly after we got there Shane got up from a very short nap and we put both kids on the floor. Emmalee was laying on her belly watching Shane. Shane crawled to one side of Emmalee and just looked at her, then he crawled to the other side of her and stared. Emmalee then rolled onto her back and Shane crawled to her feet and grabbed her pants with both hands and pulled..... I started teasing Jo and her husband, Keith that Shane was already trying to get into Emmalee's pants. We all laughed. We sat them facing each other and Emmalee reached out and grabbed two handfuls of hair and Shane just looked at her like - What do you think you are doing. We can't wait to take another road trip or to have Jo and Shane come play at our house. Thanks for a great day! We had a lot of fun. Love Jill and Emmalee

Unexpected visitors!

On Sunday March 25th we had some unexpected visitors! Mom and Dad received a call from out of no where from Greenie.... Also know as Larry Felix. Larry was in town with his kids Carissa now 15 (maybe 16) and Kevin now 10. Boy have they grown up! Here are some picture of them! It was great seeing them.. I won't tell you how many years it has been. (hint hint - lets not make it so long next time!) Love Jill and family

Not feeling so well.....

It is March 24th and we have our first cold. Emmalee's nose has been running for a couple of days and on Thursday night she was fussy - which is really unlike her... she was clingy

and tired. On Friday she still was not acting like herself but when she woke up from her nap her right eye was all full of crusties and yucky so I took her to the doctor. She has double ear infections with pink eye!!! You would never know she did not feel good, she keeps smiling and acting like nothing is wrong, she takes her medicine really well, but HATES the eye drops that have to go in both eyes 4 times a day! Well that is it for now! We love you all! I will keep you posted on how Emmalee is doing!

Love always, Jill and famiy

Welcome Kooper - our newest family member

Joshua got a new pet, his name is Kooper.... He is a Red Eared turtle that lives in a 20 gallon fish tank in the boys room.
He is really neat to watch, he is still trying to get use to all of the movement and noise but is doing great. He does not get up on his docking station much when we are around but I know he will with time. So just wanted to share Kooper with everyone.
Love always, Jill and family

The Arizona Science Center

During Spring Break Bradley, Joshua, Emmalee and I joined Sarah and Hunter for a trip to the Arizona Science Center. The Body World 3 exhibit is currently being shown and we thought it would be educational. I think it was a great way to see the human body and I think the boys learned alot... and had fun. They have an exhibit of embryo's and fetus' and the boys learned alot about how big Emmalee was at what stage.

We also played ALL of the other exhibits. Bradley tried the prism glasses to see if he could still make a basket with the glasses on.... lets just say he missed. Joshua built a tower using almost all of the blocks... he had almost all of them when the tower fell. I got a nice action shot.

We learned about building a house, how the human body works, bugs and all sorts of different things. Emmalee just came along for the ride. She was in a front carrier and she seemed to love to be able to see everything that was going on. She took a short nap and then was back in all the action. Sarah and Hunter - Thanks again for a great day!

Love Jill, Josh, Brad and Emmalee

BROWNIES!!!!

On March 11th Hunter had a half day at school so Emmalee and I went and picked him up from school and he spent the afternoon with us. We had a great time, Hunter and Emmalee played on the floor for a long time, Emmalee loved having Hunter to play with. Hunter and I then put Emmalee in her "play pretty" - as her Daddy calls it (exersaucer) and Hunter and I made brownies.... we followed the directions on the box and added a little .... shake, shake, shake, shake your boodie! We laughed and had fun, Hunter even got brownies on his thumb. Hunter kept saying "Aunt Jill is crazy" to which I would reply "and fun" and Emmalee thought this was hysterical and she just cracked up laughing.....I got it on video! = ) Hunter thanks for spending the afternoon with us, we really enjoyed having you and we can't wait to do it again!

Love always Aunt Jill and Emmalee - the brownies were great!