Eating my veggies

Emerson has really started eating and is finally enjoying her food.  So far she eats oatmeal, sweet potatoes, carrots and her new favorite..peas.  Hayden would never eat the peas, but Emerson LOVES them.  She is a very messy eater and already shows signs of being "Miss Independent" as she wants to feed herself and grabs on to the spoon.  Next we will try avocado and green beans and then we will introduce the good stuff...fruit.

Carrots

Peas



Little Miss Independent



"Lake Time"

It is officially the opening of the lake season and we are off to Alabama for Memorial Day.  The past few years has been interesting as it has been a rain out.  The weather forecast is sunny skies and hot temperatures.  It should be a blast!  There will be lots of food, beer, swimming and sun.  I know one little boy who is so excited he even packed his suitcase.  I never expected he was packing the whole playroom.   As you can see he has packed...numerous books, a robot hand, chainsaw, microphone and hungry hungry hippo.  At least he remembered his toothbrush and toothpaste. 

Too cute not to share

There is nothing cuter than ruffles on the buttom and chunky, baby legs!!
 

Picking Berries and Cicada Invasion

Last week was absolutely beautiful, it finally felt like summer.  We decided it was perfect for heading to a local farm and picking strawberries.  We had so much fun and the strawberries were absolutely delicious.  Even Emerson could not pass up taking a bite of a strawberry.
 

This summer has blessed us with the 13 year cicada invasion.  Hayden is very excited about cicada's and our first real upclose encounter with them was at the farm.  Yuck..they were everwhere!



Sitting up like a big girl

Here are some of my favorite pictures of Emerson sitting up.

6 months

I am a little late to posting, but you are officially 6 months old or as Hayden says.."you are none".  He is so proud to show you off.  He tells everyone, "This is my sister Emerson, she has no teeth and is none".  He speaks the truth!!  You still do not have any teeth, but I have a feeling it could be any day now.  You are really chewing and gnawing on your hands and anything else that is within reaching distance.  You are still doing pretty good in your crib, however, you are not sleeping as well.  You are getting up a few times and fussing, but seem to cry yourself back to sleep.  Then, around 4-4:30am you are up and ready to eat.  Luckily, you go right back to sleep after eating, but 4:30 is still a little rough on your mommy.  I hope you get back to sleeping until 6 or 7am soon.  You are not napping well either...I am listening to you scream as I type.  I was hoping to have you to 2 naps a day by now, but it seems you are on your own schedule and will only take about three 10 minute cat naps.   We will all be much happier once we get a good system down!!

You now know who your mommy and daddy are and you are not so sure of strangers.  You are very picky with who you will allow to hold you. You will smile at anyone as long as I am holding you, but once you leave my arms you go to screaming.  I am hoping you will not have major stranger anxiety like your brother and will come out of it soon.  In fact, I have been putting off taking you to the nursery at church because I am too scared you will scream the whole time.  Yesterday, I decided was the day and you went to the nursery for the first time.  I help on to the buzzer waiting for it to go off, but it never did.  I was so excited, until the last five minutes of church I could hear screaming from down the hallway.  I looked at your daddy and we both knew it was you, so off I went.  Sure enough, this poor woman was hugging and kissing on you and you were just screaming.  As I took you from her, you immediatly stopped and looked at her with a big smile.  You are such the tease. 

You are sitting pretty well on your own.  You love pulling hair and scream with delight when you get a good handful of hair.  You still stick your "lizard tongue" out all the time and are now smacking your lips, blowing rasberries and spitting.  Don't know why, but you love to spit.  I have switched you to oatmeal and you are doing much better.  You now eat oatmeal, sweet potatoes and carrots.  Next I will start trying some peas, green beans and avocado...can't wait to see what you think of those. 

These past 6 months have really flown by.  I can't believe how much you have changed.  You personality is really starting to show and everyday you are doing something new.   I can't wait to see what these next few months have in store for us, but for now, I am going to enjoy every moment with you while you are 6 months old. 

Here you are spitting



It is getting harder and harder to get you to sit still in this chair



It's in the eyes

From the day Emerson was born, I never thought that she looked anything like Hayden.  They are so different from the color of their hair to the shape of their head, but I came across this picture of Emerson and and it made me think of one of my all time favorite pictures from when Hayden was around her age of 6 months.  I now see in her beautiful, big eyes a little bit of her big brother.   They both have a special twinkle in their eyes!!