5 Going on 16!

Emma told us the other night that she loves her friend in her kindergarten class named Zachary.  She then informed us that she is going to marry him.  


WHAT!!


I reminded her that she told us she had previously decided to marry daddy.  She flippantly declared that she was not going to marry daddy any more.  I guess Daniel has been replaced!


Than, last night, I asked her how her friend Zachary was.  She told us that he was not her friend any more and that now Roger was her friend.  I asked her if her seating arrangement had been changed so that she was no longer sitting by Zachary and was now sitting by Roger instead.  She told me that it had not changed so I asked why Roger was suddenly her friend.  She responded, "Because he carries my binder for me."  Daniel replied with, "Just remember you can't date until you're 16."  I suddenly got this image of the old movies showing the high school boys carrying the books of the girl they like in an attempt to win their favor.  It was so cute, but I must admit that I keep thinking, "SHE IS NOT OLD ENOUGH FOR THIS!"  


It looks like she is not going to follow in the footsteps of her mother in this aspect of her life, so that's good news!

Introducing...

Isabella Michelle!

She is finally here.  It seems like the year has flown by, but at the same time, this has seemed like the longest pregnancy.  However, now she is here safe and sound, and we are so happy to have her.  Now we can work towards getting more sleep and normalcy in our lives as we enjoy our new little one.

We went in last Thursday, the 16th, for an induction.  Unfortunately the labor took 8 hours this time.  We were hoping for a quicker labor, but oh well, it gave me a chance to work on my patience once again.

Emma was so excited when she finally got to meet Isabella.  She wanted to hold and look at her the whole time she was there.  Matthew sat for the one picture we have of him with her and then wasn't very interested in her after that.  They are both very good and gentle with her though and we are happy about that.

She is not sleeping much at night, obviously as is evidenced by the top right picture in the collage below.  However, she doesn't seem to have reflux yet, or if she does, it is not as bad as Matthew's was, so we are hopeful!

We love our new little one.  I forgot how much I love snuggling with a new little baby.  It is heavenly, even if I am falling asleep in the middle of the day!  :)  Now if only my swelling would go down, my feet are still huge and my fingers are constantly tingling and falling asleep.  Otherwise however, I have been doing very well so far.  I have bounced back from this one much quicker than the others.  That is probably due to the fact that Daniel has been able to be home a little more than he was after the other two were born.  He has been absolutely wonderful!  He has done so much and been so great, looking for things to do to help me.  I'm so grateful for him.

Below are a few pics.  Hopefully we'll get something more professional soon, but for now these will have to do.

Okay Jenn, I finally posted!  Now you can stop bugging me about it!  :)

I'm A Big Kid Now!

In anticipation of our upcoming arrival, we decided to transition Bugsy into a "big boy bed."  I was a little worried at first as he really liked the rocking chair.  However, we decided that it would be a good idea to do it a couple of weeks before she came so that he wouldn't think the new baby was the reason.  So, we decided to do it.  He did surprisingly well.  He has had only one night so far that he asked to rock in the rocking chair, but he got over it and went to sleep.  I am so glad it has not been to big an issue.  

The bed is the top part of the bunk bed that Emma has been using, so it has guard rails.  This is a very helpful since he falls out of bed easily.  Hopefully the transition of putting Bugsy and Emma in the same room will go as smoothly as this transition.  Fortunately we aren't planning on doing that for several months, and they are both already very excited about the idea of a bunk bed.  Hopefully they will be excited when it actually happens.

Now all we need is a new baby.  I am not due until the 20th.  However, as usual, Daniel has to go out of town after the baby is born.  That being the case, the doctor has set to induce labor on the 16th so that Daniel can be here for the birth.  That is next Thursday, less than 1 week!  Guess I'd better get my house clean and laundry done before then!  : )  Wish me luck!

P.S.  This is the 3rd post I've done today.  I know you were all waiting for more posts, (heavy on the sarcasm) so if you are bored and have nothing else to do, you can check out the other two posts below.  :)

The 1 1/2 hour project....

That took me 5 hours!!!

This is the project that was supposed to take me 1 1/2 hours.  

I found a tutorial here, and thought, how hard can that be?  Famous last words!  I ended up spending 5 hours making this.

Admittedly, it is not exactly the same as the tutorial picture.  I made several changes, which is part of the reason it took longer.  The fact that I am not a seamstress definitely added to the time as well.  At any rate, I was rather frustrated by the end of the whole ordeal.  Oh well, at least I like the way it turned out pretty well.  Now I had better have a girl!  :)

S'mores

In an attempt to clean the back yard up a little, Daniel gathered all of these little brick like things that we had left over from pouring concrete and stacked them up like a fire pit.  It is not at all stable and if leaned on will fall over, but Emma was still pretty excited.  After a week of telling her that we would roast marshmallows, we finally did it.  It was very brief, but the kids had a fun time, and Emma was especially glad to finally get to eat some s'mores

Our makeshift fire pit!

Bugsy was not at all excited about the s'mores.  He ate each part separately, but he did enjoy the fire.

Emma liked the s'mores a lot and had 2 of them!  The red on her nose is not a bruise.  She likes to pretend she is Rudolph the red nose reindeer and so of course she needs a red nose.  That is lipstick left over from her playing "Santa" with daddy earlier that day.

Emma's First Day of Kindergarten!

Emma was pretty excited for her first day of kindergarten today.  We put her to bed at 8:15 last night and she didn't fall asleep until 10:30.  Then she woke up at 7:00 this morning, so I'm betting she will be tired tonight. :)  She had a hard time concentrating this morning.  I think I told her to eat her breakfast about 30 times today and she still wasn't done after 25 minutes and ended up taking her grapes in the car with her.  Thus, we were a little late for her first day today.  Fortunately, Daniel is awesome.  He went out this morning before he left for work and put gas in the van.  I totally forgot it was almost empty and would have been really late if he hadn't done that.  I was very grateful!

I thought we had to finish Emma's paper doll project this morning and that made us a little bit later.  Then I realized after the fact that it wasn't actually due today.  Oh well, at least it is done.  We rushed out the door and drove to the school.  Then I practically dragged the kids along with me as we rushed in.  We didn't take a picture in front of the school at that point because we were so late, but we did take one after school, so at least we got one. 

Emma was excited and a little nervous.  She was a little shy when we first got there, and took a picture with Mrs. Willis.  It is helpful though that Mrs. Willis is Annika's aunt so she kind of knows her.  Also, Annika is in her class, so that was good as well.  Anyway, here are some pics:

They invited parents to stay for the flag raising ceremony, so Matthew and I stuck around for that.  Unfortunately, despite the fact that Matthew went to bed early last night, he slept in today and I had to wake him up to get Emma to school.  Thus, he didn't get any breakfast and was pretty bugged by the time they got around to starting the flag raising ceremony.  Oh well, he did alright.

Emma was so cute, trying to sing 'The Star Spangled Banner"and say the pledge of allegiance.  They had these cute little boy scouts doing the flag.  Then, after they sang and said the pledge of allegiance, they shot of a great big old time cannon.  It was fun.  Then we got a picture of Emma's kindergarten class in front of the cannon with the guy in his army uniform.  She was so darling!  Here's some more pics:

She said that she had a fun time at her first day.  She told me she couldn't remember what they did at first, but after a while she told me a cookie came in the class.  I was picturing a chocolate chip cookie walking in and was a little confused until she explained that they read a story about a ginger bread man.  Then the ginger bread man came into the class room.  There was a giant cookie and they all got a piece of it.  She told me a lot about the story and animals chasing the ginger bread man, but that is about all I've been able to get her to tell me.  At least she had fun.  We are so excited for her to be starting kindergarten.  And, I didn't even cry, probably because we were late and in such a hurry!  :)

Aprons and Cookies

Emma found the apron that Granmda Sperry made for her for Christmas 2 years ago.  She decided she wanted to wear it and asked if we could make some cookies.  In unusual fashion for me, I agreed.  When I put the apron on Emma, Matthew decided that he needed one too.  Fortunately, Grandma Sperry had also made one for Daniel and I as well, and I was able to make one of them fit on Matthew.  They both looked darling, and you can't even tell in the picture that Matthew has no pants on.  :)  We had fun making cookies and they turned out tasting pretty good too!