Why I love preschool!!!

Here's what Emma's learned at preschool...she's mastered it, and my favorite part is "liverty"...enjoy!!!

First trip to the playground for 2009!!

Last week, as I wrote, Lynne took Emma to see The Wizard of Oz. She has been FASCINATED with this show ever since, wanting to watch it all the time, singing songs, etc. So I emailed my Aunt Laura, who works for McDonald's (corporate, in Chicago) and asked her if she could get a hold of the Happy Meal toys that were out last summer/fall from The Wizard of Oz...she wrote back and said she didn't even know they had a Wizard of Oz Happy Meal and that should see what she can do (and also thanked Emma for supporting the Happy Meal business!)!!! Well, didn't hear anything for about a week when Thursday when I got home from work, there's a box from McDonald's at our door! Aunt Laura found all 12 of the Happy Meal toys for Emma!!! She was so excited to get them all and we even got a little box for her to keep them all in. She's played with them all weekend...voices and all!!! Here's a picture of her with the dozen toys!

On Saturday, Tony was DJ-ing for the Flushing High School Athletics Booster's Dodgeball fundraiser...Emma, Bradlee and I all stayed at his parents' house for the evening and Emma, Lynne, Bradlee and I got coats on and walked over to the playground! Emma had a great time playing again...the swings, the slide, the "pony", the merry-go-round....ahhhh......she wiped out twice and had two black knees but also had the time of her life running around....and slept so well that night! :) Bradlee had a great time, too! I put him in the stroller in his little warm coat and hat and he was waving his hands and legs the whole way to the playground! He loved watching his big sister run around like a crazy woman and also slept so well!!!

We went outside again this afternoon....over 50 degrees! :) Emma played in her sandbox from the outside (so she wouldn't get completely filthy!) and Bradlee just watched everything around him. It's going to be so much fun this summer!!

Pictures!!!

I got a new haircut and wanted some pictures with my cuties!

Monday (March 2nd) was Dr. Seuss' 105th birthday, so my mom and dad took Emma to the Flint Public Library for their "Seuss Celebration"...they made "Cat in the Hat" hats, read "There's a Wocket in My Pocket" and "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish", sang "Happy Birthday" and enjoyed some cookies!! Emma had a great time...I had to read her the Wocket book again before bedtime!

Today, Lynne (Tony's sister) took Emma to see "The Wizard of Oz" at The Whiting...the local theater... (Tony and I went to see Jesus Christ Superstar on Saturday!)...She wore her Valentine's dress and ruby shoes...and even Pinky got dressed up!! Bradlee was just happy to have a quiet night away from Emma! :)

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!!!

Thursday of Snowcoming Week and 6 month checkup!

Today was "Decades Day" for Snowcoming Week...Tony dressed in a tye-dyed t-shirt and bandanna and Bradlee wore a "SK8TR" onesie Tony made for him. We were going to try to spike his Mohawk, but his hair is so fine, you wouldn't have been able to see it!!!

Emma, not wanting to be left out, decided at the last minute that she wanted to wear a dress to school today, so I pulled out one of the outfits she got for Christmas...what a cute outfit it was!!

This afternoon I took Bradlee to the doctor's for his 6-month check-up....I can't believe he's 6 months old already! It's so different than with Emma, 'cause when Emma was 6-months old, it was June!! Anyways, Bradlee is growing very well and weighs 16 pounds, 1 ounce and is 25.5 inches long. I think he's more like 25 inches, since he was lifting his head up to see what the nurse was doing while she was measuring him, so I think that may have given him an extra half-inch or so....He got 5 shots (would have been 4, but it's still flu season, so since he's 6 months old, he could now get a flu shot) and the rota virus vaccine by mouth. He did so well! Only cried when they were actually doing the shots, and I think more because they were holding his legs than because of the pokes! I picked him up when they were done and he stopped crying and started his "complaining and whining"! What a cutie...all the nurses (some who were nurses when I was seeing his pediatrician!) all came to see how big he's gotten! He's doing great and we get to start introducing meats!!!!

Snowcoming Week!

So it's Snowcoming Week at Holly High School. Unfortunately, the other schools don't "celebrate" the week, so only Bradlee and Tony got to dress up this week. Monday was "Pajama Day", but Tony and Emma were both sick (again!) so everyone (except) me stayed home in their PJ's...I decided it would be better to NOT have a picture of that! Tuesday was "Masquerade Day"...coming off the stomach bug, Tony didn't have the energy to try to come up with a costume, so we didn't do anything for Bradlee, either.

Today, however, was "Would you still be my friend if I wore this? Day"....Tony, appropriately, wore an Ohio State University t-shirt he borrowed from a friend at school. I wanted to put Bradlee in a dress of Emma's (age appropriate, of course!), but Tony wouldn't let me...so instead we just dressed him and put a diaper on his head! Here are the pictures!!!

Bradlee's teachers gave him tons of hugs and kisses, and then promptly used the diaper on his head to replace the poopy one on his butt....

Wait until tomorrow....HE HE HE! :)