18 months

Hooray for being 18 months!

A little bit about the whippers:

First day of nursery - no problems

Loves: dogs, crackers, and the bath
Does not love: the grocery store
Favorite things to do: suck her thumb while twirling her hair, and going outside.

Emry is really pretty easy.  The grocery store and church bring out her crazy mad side, but other than that she's pretty mild.
The boys really didn't have any stranger anxiety, Emry definitely has some.   She's pretty shy around new people.
She took awhile to start talking, which had me a bit worried, but now she's starting to say a bit more.  She can say: no, mine(screaming), cracker(cka-cka), hi, bye bye, where are you, Daddy, Momma, out, bow, yeah, and shoe.
She loves clothes and especially shoes.  She will point and point at her shoes until we acknowledge them.
She is probably our best sleeper (we'll pay for that thumb sucking later, I know!)
She loves to make animal noises : dog, cat, bird, snake, and her latest today is owl.
weight: 25 lbs (76%)
height: 32" (56%)
We love her big hugs and big puckered kisses.

Summer Smash-up

It's just the beginning of summer, but life has already been crazy.  

Here's a little bit of what has been going on

We went to a Neverland themed birthday party.  Here we have John, Wendy, and Peter Pan

We've had wonderful days with temperatures in the 80's.  And then it gets cold and cloudy again.  But, on one of those sunny days we broke out the sprinkler and the kids had a blast.

Emry would start to feel the drops...

...and come crying back to me.

-crash-

Some TV time

For all the messes they make, it makes my heart smile when I find them washing the dishes all on their own (before one can get completely dressed, no less).  Even if I did have to re-wash the dishes.

We couldn't have asked for better friends here(even the ones not in this pic).  Everyone is leaving for summer vacations and then we are leaving for good before they get back.  These guys have been the best to spend these 5 years with.  They've helped me, laughed with me, listened to me, sympathized with me, watched my kids alot, and loved my kids probably as much as we do.  Sitting out at the playgrounds with them will be some of my favorite memories and missing them will be the hardest part about leaving here. 

Emry has gotten over her fear of dogs and is in love with them now.

And now, despite my good intentions of starting to pack early and just do a box or two a day, I am rushing to get everything packed up.

 Happy Summer!