Precious Girl

July 20, 2010
Emma Elizabeth,
Oh My Goodness, sweet and tiny precious baby girl! You are growing up way to fast! The moments are fleeting. I just hold and savor you each day and will you not to grow up so quickly.

You are really cooing and smiling so very much! You rolled over from your back to your front this week. When you end up on your tummy, you cry for someone to come and help you!

We also just started sitting you in your Bumpo seat (it is a seat that helps to prop you up – but you have to have good control of your head before you can use it. Your little eyes and face are so expressive and you coo and coo, and I really feel that we are having quite a conversation together. You are just such a doll.

Today after I nursed you I was just rocking you and watching your brother and sister play. I couldn’t stop nuzzling you and kissing you – and Clayton and Gracie both kept coming up to you and kissing you too! You add so much joy to our lives! God bless you baby Emma!

July 20, 2010
Gracie,

Hi baby! You are so smart and so darn grown up for a little girl who isn’t yet 2 years old.

You have pee-peed in the potty in the morning 3 days in a row! I am so very proud of you. You were so cute the first time you went pee in the potty. You proclaimed “I did it!!!” proudly. We were just as excited as you were. You get to put a sticker on a little potty chart each time you try to go. After you sat on the potty briefly today, you got a little smirk across your face and you said “sticker” and got up off the potty. You smart little cookie – already working the system : )

Another cute note – you just adore your big brother and when he came home from school today you smiled a huge smile ran to the window to look out and jumped up and down saying “TAY-TON” “TAY-TON” home!!!

Raffy, Cookies and Playdates

July 20, 2010
Hi Buddy! You sure are adorable all tucked into bed tonight with your little “Raffy” giraffe clutched in your arm and sound asleep. I remember buying that little giraffe before you were born, and putting it in the nursery on your dresser next to your ultrasound picture. For all that I thought I knew of the joy that was about to be bestowed upon Daddy and I – I can say this – I knew nothing of how deep and vast my love for you could be. I adore you baby boy, and the love I have for you three children and your Daddy consumes me! You guys are my life! You are really doing and saying some adorable things, such as “Mommy, I have an I-DEA (idea).” Your new found imagination is just such a joy! It is so fun to peak into your little mind. You love to play “going to the beach” “going to the moon” “going to the zoo.” Sometimes you say “Mommy, I got an idea. You be Evil Emperor Zurg and I’ll be Buzz Light year.” Just precious! You are starting to understand conditional things – such as directions I give you like “Clayton, you may help me bake cookies, but first you have to pick up all of your blocks and put them back in the box.”
You LOVE to help Daddy and I in the kitchen. Today, you wanted to crack one of the eggs and you did a very good job all by yourself. The yolk startled you when it oozed out quickly, and then you just giggled! Gracie was crying in her crib when she woke up from her nap today. Then, I heard her stop – followed by both of you giggling hysterically. I found you in her crib with her and you two were tickling each other and tackling each other and laughing. I still have no idea how you managed to climb into her crib. You have never done that before. When I asked you how you got in you said, “I wanted in, so I climbed Mommy.” You also told me today that you wanted your friend, Dillon (who we haven’t seen in over a month – and who you’ve only seen a few other times ever) to come and play. I called his Mommy and he gets to come over on Friday and play! Yeah! That will be so much fun for you, as he is a very nice boy and you two play well together.