Miles of smiles

Emma was in a great mood yesterday morning and I got a bunch of great pictures of her smiling! She will hit the three month mark (12 weeks) on Saturday!


Enjoy!

Naptime! My favorite time of day!

I took all of these pictures at the same time yesterday. It was a lovely hour of peace at my house!

A day at the fair

The Pima county fair is in town - we took advantage of "Military Appreciation Day" yesterday and had a great time with the kids. We went last year and had a great time so this was something Bryan and I were really looking forward to this year. My only concern was that Alex wouldn't be tall enough to ride the rides with Rebekah - thankfully he JUST made the 36 inch mark that was required!

The giant slide was our first stop. Bryan said Rebekah was ready to go and almost didn't even wait for him. The first couple of bumps took Alex by surprise - you can see the uncertain look on his face (click on picture to enlarge) but by then end he was having fun!

The ferris wheel was the only ride we were able to go on as an ENTIRE family! Emma slept through the whole thing - she slept all afternoon in fact!

Alex and Rebekah enjoyed several "kiddie rides" like this one

The merry go round was a big hit - and Alex did NOT like Mommy resting my hand on the back of his horse he wanted to ride "by myself!"

I was nursing Emma during the elephant ride - so I missed out on this one - Daddy did good with the pictures though!

Bryan said they got an extra long ride because the elephant had to stop and "do business" twice!

This was probably the hit of the day. Alex and Rebekah have been watching the 1985 TV version of Alice in Wonderland. There is a monster called the "Jabberwoky" in it that looks like a dragon - so I'm not sure if Daddy gave them the idea or if they decided for themselves that they were riding the Jabberwoky. In the above picture you can see they are looking at each other screaming their heads off - Bryan said they were trying to see who could scream louder. Bryan told Rebekah early on it was ok to scream on the rides and she took full advantage of screaming - and Alex followed suit as is typical of him. We have video of this ride and other things that I will try to have at the end of this post.

COTTON CANDY!!!!!!!

And Emma slept....

Rebekah was amazingly clean after eating her cotton candy - she does NOT take after her mother in this regard - I would have had it EVERYWHERE.

Alex didn't do to bad either. Getting him to stand still with his hands up was the tricky part!

Look at that face!

Rebekah said "Daddy take a picture of my face like this" so he did!

And here is a video of the day. And if you are wondering who Alex is waving to in the video - we don't know either.

Smile Emma smile!

One evening we were all gathered around trying to make Emma smile - below are the fruits of our labor!

All about Emma

Emma is now 2 months old. She is a very laid back little girl. With an older brother and sister that take a bit of attention away from her, she has learned to deal with some things on her own. She goes to sleep most of the time without a fuss, and up until last night she would sleep for a good 6 hours at a time! (More on that later!) Around 6 weeks babies are said to start having a "social smile" and we started seeing Emma's often, but usually not with camera in hand - we were lucky to catch this one below!

Here are a few pictures I took this morning (Sunday, April 13)



Those of you who have known us or know us now are probably aware that all of our kids including Emma have slept in their Aquarium Wonders cradle swing until around 4 months when we transitioned them to the crib. Well, Emma is no exception and has been happily sleeping in her swing from the beginning. Yesterday the swing died! Bryan took it apart today and the motor is just worn out (after swinging three kids, it's no wonder!) so last night Emma slept in her travel swing - and slept fine except she woke up every two hours rather than sleeping for 6 like she has been for the last two weeks or so! So we are at a crossroads - wondering if we should keep using the travel swing until we get the other swing fixed (Bryan is sure he can of course!) or just go ahead and transition her to her crib - even though that might mean a few nights of crying! So I guess tonight we will decide what we are going to do - I'll keep you posted!

The cutest kids in the world!

Oh brother!

This is my brother Jim - he flew down from Idaho for the weekend (a couple of weekends ago - I'm behind - what else is new!) ~ I know seeing Emma and the rest of my family was a BIT of his motivation - but he also got a few spring training baseball games in - which wasn't a bad bonus. We enjoyed seeing him and looke forwared to seeing his WHOLE family in the fall!