What a great week it's been...busy, but good! At the end of last week, after dinner one night, Emma and Bradlee were in a fabulous mood, so Tony and I took the opportunity to get them together for some pictures. They were so funny. We put Emma in the big chair and then Bradlee in her lap. They both giggled like nothing in the world! It was so great...here's the proof!

Then it was Valentine's Day and both Emma and Bradlee had outfits to wear to school for their parties! Emma and I made heart crayon necklaces for her friends....all 36 of them! It was time consuming, but I was so happy we did them because she got so much candy from everyone else! Her friends loved them and she told me she had to tell everyone that we "only color on PAPER!"!! What a girl! It's not the best picture of Emma, but it's the only one I got with her wearing her "Dorothy shoes"...red sparkly dress shoes! Bradlee had a cute little one piece with Mickey on it that he, surprisingly, kept clean all day!!

This past Monday, my grandfather (Dad's dad) turned 87!!! So on Sunday we went to their house and my grandma made a delicious brunch for us to help celebrate! As Emma's gotten older, she's found different things to play with at my grandparents' house...most recently was the "little pool" they have in their bathroom...when we couldn't find her, we would just go look in the jacuzzi tub and........

there she was!!! The best part of the afternoon was when Emma and Snookie (my grandma, don't ask!) were checking out the air ducts on the floor of the guest room and Snookie told Emma to yell down there to see if anyone was there. Emma was laying on her tummy with her head practically in the vest yelling, "Hellllooooooo down there!!". LOL I went out to the dining room where my mom, dad, sister and Papa were and told them what was going on in the bedroom (Emma was making a lot of noise!) and my dad went down to the basement...the next time Emma yelled, "Hello in there!" my dad banged on the duct from the basement and yelled back, "Hey! Who's up there?" Emma SCREAMED and flew under one of the twin beds in the room...counting in SPANISH! It was like, "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.....uno, dos, tres, quatro, seis ocho!!!!" While she's hiding under the bed! LOL We laughed so hard we were crying and I swear my grandma was going to have a heart attack!!! :) What an afternoon! Here's a picture of my kids with their great-grandparents!

Hope y'all have a great weekend! :)

Rolling Over with Teeth

Hey All....Bradlee has discovered how to roll over from back to front!! It's so funny to watch...he'll start by looking up and behind him, straining his neck, then his arm will go over, then he swings his leg over with all he's got. So cute! Once he gets on his tummy, though, he gets this look like, "How the hell did I get here?"

We also discovered a small razor-like tooth coming through on his bottom center gums! Yippee!! I've stopped breastfeeding, so that's mightly convienent! LOL Other than that, he's doing really well.


Emma has been wonderful. She just loves going to school and even when she's home just for the weekend, you can tell how much she misses playing with kids her own age. Putting her in school was one of the best things we've ever done!


I'm hoping to get Bradlee into some music classes soon...I'm sure he'll love them. I may try to get into them with some friends of ours and their kids. Emma loved the music classes, only we wished we had started her earlier. They have classes for 6 month olds at FIM (Flint Institute of Music), so I'm going to look into those for the next term. Emma's still loving her gymnastics and goes swimming with Aunt Lynne (Tony's sister) just about every weekend. Her teacher told us that she's really advanced for her age, so keeping her busy with extra-curriculars is going to be really important. I think we're off to a great start!



All for now, I believe...have to go make sure our basement isn't flooding from all the snow melting and RAIN we've gotten today!! Pictures coming soon!!!