Emily- 8 months

Emily is now 8 months. Unfortunately, I did not take very many pictures this last month of the girls:( I need to do a better job getting my camera out!


-The biggest thing Emily started doing right at 8 months was crawling! She was really fast army crawling all over, but she figured out crawling and enjoys that now.

-She loves being pushed in this car I found at a garage sale. This was a great investment as I am getting so much use out of it. I push her in her little car while Megan rides her tricycle! Both girls love going up and down our quiet little street.



-Emily is still a really bad spitter upper:( It is so disgusting. I sometimes call her "Nasty" which my mom thinks is awful, but I still love her of course! I am hoping that she will stop this characteristic of her soon!


-It seems like she is working on teething and that she is being bothered by it, but still no teeth:( I am ready for a couple to pop through (as I am sure she is too!) As you can tell by the picture, she has had some rough days and just wants to be held or at least in the same room as me.


-Emily is still our sweet smiling baby! She is growing up so quickly, and we are enjoying going through these different stages just as much the second time around!

Megan

Megan is almost 2 years and 10 months...can't believe she will be 3 in a couple of months. Of course, she is excited for her birthday, and well, I am both excited and sad! I have not done a post on her for a while. (I am just so bad at keeping up...I am going to try to do better so I have memories for these younger years!)

Megan loves dressing herself, and well, as you can tell, sometimes her selections don't always go quite together...enjoy these next pictures!
Megan enjoys having some kind of shoes on her feet as well a scarf around her neck and a head band on her head! She is enjoying a little dancing here! She keeps us laughing!


Megan sporting a different kind of outfit with her sunglasses and a sombrero!

Megan has some kind of imagination...sleeping under the rug in the living room using it as her blanket??!!

Megan absolutely loves playing with this Little People farm and animals. She has a tractor with it and loves her little people school bus as well! These are her favorites!!

Megan loves swimming at her Nana's house! She "swims" everywhere in the pool with these floaties on. A couple times, she has tried without the floaties and has found out she goes right under the water! She is very comfortable in the water...,maybe a little too comfortable!


She loves wearing this hat. In fact it is a little too small, but she still crams it on there. I need to go and buy her a hat that fits since she loves wearing it so much.


Katy is her BEST friend. She always wants to play with her. In fact, she has recently starting having her as an imaginary friend that she plays with at the house. She has a chair for her to eat in and feeds her lunch. We even took Katy to Lowes the other day...she just can't get enough play time with her best friend!

She enjoys playing with play dough. She is very creative in what she makes!!!

She loves playing games. She enjoys Wheels on the Bus, Old McDonald had a Farm, Don't Spill the Beans, Hi Ho Cherry-o, Candy Land, and Hungry Hippos. This has been a fun transition for me as I have always enjoyed games as well!

Our biggest battle right now with her is settling down to go to sleep. She used to be a great sleeper and go right to sleep. (I thought this was an area that we had "in the bag". I guess I will never think that again!) In the last couple of months, this has been our biggest challenge with her. She went through a really bad phase of just getting out of her bed and walking to us (something she never did, just happened out of the blue). Long story short, we are still trying to figure out how to get this situation worked out...we have tried a lot of things, but well, not much progress it seems.We love our little Meggers...what joy she is to us!

Emily- 7 months!

Emily is now 7 months. (I am behind on posts, but I want to catch up a little because I am so bad at documenting things if I don't put them on here!) I weighed her at 7 1/2 months, and she was 16 pounds. Here is what happened between her 6th and 7th month.....

Of course, she is still as cute as ever!!!



She started sitting up just a couple days after turning 6 months.


She started eating baby food (We got started with her later than Megan b/c things were just busier, and we did not get around to it sooner!) She ate squash, sweet potato, and greenbeans. She started out very slow with eating as we could not get her to open her mouth. I think it was almost 2 weeks b/f she finally started opening her mouth quickly. I thought she would never get it!
She loves playing with Megan's toys. This has been a good "opportunity" for Megan to work on sharing! She gets everywhere by rolling over!!!

Emily and Megan took their first bath together. Megan wanted to help me bathe Emily so I decided to put her in with her. They did very well together!!

Emily started her cheesy smile during this time as well. She started doing this as she was playing with Chelsea!! (This is not the best picture of it, but it was the best I could get!)

She started saying mama and knows who I am!! So special!!!!!

Sweet Sisters

I just can't take enough pictures of Megan and Emily together! They love each other so much and are fun to watch together! Megan enjoys loving on her sister (sometimes too rough though!), and Emily loves the attention she gets from her. Here are some of the pictures of the 2 girls together! Enjoy!









I really hope they grow up to be best friends!

Happy 6 Months

I can't believe Emily is already 6 months (as of July 5th). She had her 6 month checkup and was 15 pounds (25%) and 26 1/4 inches (75%).


She is rolling both ways all over the floor. (I now need to vacuum more often as well as make sure small objects are not on the floor.) She is into everything now including her sister's toys. This makes for a fun "encouraging" pep talk with Megan to share her toys and be kind!


She is not yet sitting up (getting close though!). She does open and close her hand like she is waving which is cute (Of course, she does not understand the hi and bye part yet....). .



She went swimming for the first time this last month. Someone from Tim's work gave us this swimsuit...so cute!


She just started saying mama a few days after she turned 6 months (July 9). This made me so happy!



She is often the enjoyment of Megan's play! Megan loves putting stickers on her!

She experienced her first 4th of July! She looked so cute in her Patriotic outfits that were given to us by my oldest sister. She is the 4th girl to wear these outfits!

We finally started her on rice cereal right at 6 months. We have been meaning to start before this, but just never got around to it. (the life with a 2nd child....things just sometimes get put aside...). She also has not slept as well the last couple of weeks and has been waking up b/t 6"30-7 instead of the 7:30. Her afternoon naps have been off a little too. I am hoping this is b/c of teething???

We just love Emily Grace and are so thankful for her! We are enjoying her as she seems to be changing so much!