It's Likely...

that I won't get around to sending out this birth announcement.  So I'll post it here.  For all 2 of you who read my blog, you already know that we had a new baby, but I made the announcement and it turned out alright, so I've got to put it somewhere.

You can click on it to see it larger.

Other things we've been up to:

Emma got her first school pictures taken and I think she looks darling.

She is doing well in school despite the fact that she really does not like homework.  She seems to be very good at the memorizations.  They worked on Psalm 100 in class and she had it all memorized 2 weeks before she had to recite it without any help at home.  It's 5 verses, so it's pretty long for a 5 year old, and we think she's pretty great!  

She also has a loose tooth as of Sunday and she is so excited.  It is likely that we will have pictures with a missing tooth soon, so stay tuned.

 Bella is getting bigger every day.  Here she is having her first tea party.  She is smiling and cooing now and I am loving it.   Hopefully I'll get around to taking more pics of her since she changes and grows so fast, but we'll see if that happens.  She is doing much better since she got on medicine for the reflux and even goes about 6 hours between feedings at night.  This is totally new for us since with both of the others it took at least 6 months to get to that point.  Hallelujah!

 Emma and Matthew love "horsey" rides!  Daddy loves his kidlets and is happy to oblige.  Emma and Matthew are doing surprisingly well with Bella.  This has been a much easier transition so far than when we brought Matthew home.  We put them both in Matthew's room and they were very excited about the bunk bed.  Other than the first night when Emma decided to wake Matthew up in the middle of the night to play, it has worked out quite well.  They are such good kids.  We are so blessed to have them.

Halloween Festivities

Yes, my name is Emilee and I am a procrastinator.  I am just getting around to a Halloween post!  :)

After Bella was born, Daniel had to go out of town for almost 3 weeks straight.  We promised Emma that when he got back we would go to the pumpkin patch.  We drove to 2 different pumpkin patches right after lunch on the Monday after he got back only to discover that they don't actually open until 4:00 pm.  As we already had plans that evening, we ended up having to go the next Monday.  That was the same day that Dave and Melis were going to Barnyard Boo at the Thanksgiving point farm so we decided to go to Cornbellyss and then meet them at the Barnyard Boo afterwards.  

They had a huge bunch a hay bales stacked up with slides coming down all around.  The middle picture shows them all going down the slide together.  I love Matthew's face.  Emma really liked the fast black slide (middle left) and Matthew was very happy with the very slow roller slide (middle right).

As it turned out, we needed a little while longer at Cornbelly's because Matthew was screaming when we left because he didn't get to do everything he wanted to.  However, he calmed down when we went and got a kitty painted on his and Emma's faces.  That was the highlight of the Barnyard Boo event, but he also really liked the ponies as well.

For Halloween, Emma decided she wanted to be a Firebird (a creature from her Little Einstein's movie).  I spent all day the Friday of our ward party making Firebird wings for her costume.  Unfortunately nobody knows what a Firebird is and therefore, they didn't get the costume.  Oh well, at least she was happy.

Matthew wanted to be a crocodile, however we did not discover that the costume we purchased for him did not fit until the day of our ward party.  Thus Daddy took him out and bought him a costume.  What else would you expect from him but a skateboarder?  Not what I would have picked, but Matthew seemed happy and he looked darling!

We went to the ward party on Friday night.  Then, on Saturday night we went to Dave and Melissa's ward Trunk or Treat and then went to a couple of houses around our neighborhood.  It was cold and rainy, but the rain let up just before the Trunk or Treat started and it turned out to be a fun evening.