These girls!  I started making Emmie outfits to go over her halo and am working on building up an inventory to sell them.  I grabbed this fabric and just couldn’t resist outfits for two of our girls.  They were none to shy about posing either. And being silly. Mark got Zoe to pose too.
Dress up time! Emmie loves to play “nite nite.”  She grabs all of her animals, wants a pillow behind her and then we count to three and she throws herself back as hard as she can. Malachi and Bryant made the letter K. Emmie has the proper way to eat oreos:  Take off the top.  Eat all the icing.  Try a bite of a cookie and then declare, “Yuk!” as you toss it on the floor.
Oh, you know, just riding in the car, hanging on to my halo.
Emmie was blessed with a sweet gift from a neighbor.  There was a beautiful handmade crochet rabbit blankie and a bigger crochet blankie.  She calls her rabbits Hop Hop but this Hop Hop is her favorite buddy and goes everywhere with her. Piling toys.  Taking a nap. Emmie’s made a little desk by my desk and loves to sit and color.  We have since gotten a step stool for her to sit on but before that, she used a box of adoption tees. She’s learned to turn to the side to sleep. Braving the mall crowd to run some errands.  My kids were amazing and we needed photographic evidence of this.
Mark got Star War pjs.  Awesome. Preciousness Our neighborhood had some pretty amazing lights on display.  This one was one of our favorites. Peek-a-… Boo

It’s been a year 2015.

Woohoo!  I may be caught up by the middle of February.  Hold on to your hats! My friend, Tracy’s baby J.  In the corner.  Uh oh.
And Baby J hanging out with the other bestie, Kristina.  She was cuddling with her.  Too cute.
Malachi loves Ukrainian chocolate.  I totally understand. One Monday.  Paint everywhere.    This was not a fun way to start the week. Thankfully, with a lot of elbow grease from Zoe and myself we were able to get to this.  I also saved most of the paint. Emmie loves her pancakes. And her goofy “Bubble.”  Best consignment sale find ever…this was a great goofy jacket that has gotten much use this season. Emmie likes to steal my bracelets and wear them.

Helping Mama get miles in by wearing the fitbit on her neck.  Sure.  Why not?

All the happenings in October that were just a part of every day life. Tracy, our amazing photographer, put together a picture fundraiser with local homeschoolers.  As a bonus, I got to watch her kids for several sessions.  J, was so sweet and has gotten so big.  I wrote up J’s birth story.  A night I won’t soon forget. G and M at the playground. Emmie with her big buddy, Josiah.  Josiah has been trying to teach Emmie to call him Bubba (even though the rest of us are only allowed to call him Josiah.  Not ‘Siah or Bubba).  She has been working hard, but no matter how hard she works.  He’s “Bubble.”  That was the first “B” word she said.  So, Bubble knows when he is being paged and always comes running with that smile. At the library. They both requested I take their picture. More time with the amazing C kids.  That’s twelve kids there.  And everyone was alive at the end too. M with Jimmy.  I don’t know who Jimmy is or who put him there, but I got a picture of Jimmy and M. Drinking and driving.

Super Ems being Super Cute. Malachi was working hard on putting together the perfect English muffin pizza.Emmie’s “Day-dee.”  She was insistent that she put her in the stroller by herself.
Turtles.  On a log.   Dragon fly.  On Minnie mouse’s head. Every so slowly, Emmie is becoming more interested in playing that having mommy right there beside her. A major feat…putting a hat on without help. Babies (Day-dees if you are certain cute toddler) are the thing around our house right now.  Not the all fabric kind.  Not the dolls that look like little girls.  Nope.  They must be baby dolls.  She loves to feed them, walk with them, give them their paci.   You name it.  She just loves babies.

Toys aren’t allowed at mealtimes.  But, one day Emmie had baby at the table, and we all agreed that “Day-dee” was not a toy anymore.

Emmie.  The older she gets the more of her fun personality we get to see.  She’s a pretty determined girl.  She also works so hard to be as independent as possible.  Talking with a nurse at her surgery several weeks ago, she mentioned that there is so much out of her control that she probably feels better when she can control just one thing.  I suppose most toddlers are like that but when you are having to deal with medical issues, that can be amplified.

So, when your almost 18 month old grabs a pair of your 5 year olds’ undies and successfully gets them on one leg and makes it very clear that she meant to wear them, you go with it.

And when she grabs one of her diapers and tries to put it on herself and realizes she can’t so she grabs her pillow and sits down and starts yelling for you.  You put it on her.  Even if she is all ready for bed and has a disposable diaper.

And she wears it the whole entire night.  Some times you just need to be a little different to be you.