In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s been 2 months since I’ve updated our blog.  This is me attempting to get it back to shape.  October has been unbelievably busy for us.  Between school, work and all of the birthday parties for friends this month we have been going crazy!

Everett is almost 11 months old, he’s crawling and cruising around furniture.  On occasion he’s stretching really far, without letting go, to get between the furniture!  Emma is almost FOUR!!!  She knows her alphabet (by recognition of each letter) and all of the sounds the letters make.  If you ask her what letter a word starts with, she can answer you (correctly, most of the time ;)!  She’s loving preschool and especially her teacher, Mrs. Howe.  She’s especially looking forward to Halloween and “trick or treating” at school.

Tim and I are doing well.  In fact, we are both losing weight and we have changed our lifestyles a little bit.  Tim has lost 16 lbs and I have lost over 30 lbs.  In addition to being more mindful of what, when and how much we eat, I go to the gym regularly and Tim is using the Wii Fit in the evenings and continues to ride his bicycle to work.  Tim is actually doing a weight loss challenge through work, “Lose a turkey by turkey day!”  The idea is to lose 10% of your body weight in 10 weeks (by Thanksgiving) and he’s almost two-thirds there at the halfway point!  I have been on my B-12 injections for a few months and am truly starting to notice the difference.  I am doing them every week at home now so I don’t have to go into the doctor’s office during cold and flu season. 

Anyways…enough about us…onto the kids!

Grandma ReeRee came to visit:

We got the kids a bubble machine for the bathtub!!  They LOVE it!

Spencer’s Birthday

My friend Kelly’s son, Spencer had his first birthday this month.  I made the “OSU” themed cake for his party!

Photos taken by Joel Culberson.

Everett was too cute, we were supposed to wear our “team gear” to the party!

Little Everett…he’s into everything now!!

Obviously, he LOVES Baby Einstein!!

Emma and Lucas on the Trampoline

Once again I have failed to keep the blog updated!  We have been crazy busy and I am finding it hard to keep on top of this thing.  Anyways, enough of my excuses, here is the good stuff…

Everett Pictures:

First chocolate chip cookie!!

Helping with the laundry!

Picture of Everett refusing to sleep in his crib…he jumps up and down! (poor quality from the video monitor on the tv!)

Everett in the bean bag, his favorite chair!

Emma Pictures:

Dolly “washing”

Emma dead asleep with all of her lights in her room on.  She is refusing to take naps, so some days she falls asleep on her own when she gets bored.

Cheese!

Miscellaneous Pictures

Family dress up time and reading Emma’s favorite book that helped her learn her alphabet, “On Market Street”.

Westin and Summer came to visit on Labor Day weekend.  We had a wonderful time and enjoyed their visit!  While they were here Summer helped me do some craft projects in the house, she’s really talented!  Thanks Summer!!

This is chalkboard paint on the door!

Cakes

I have been doing a lot of cakes recently.  Different requests, some baby shower and some birthday, but LOTS of cakes!  Tim always comes in and tries to get pictures of me working on the cakes.

Razorback Cake

Baby shower cake

Sewing

I have been making lots of Emma’s dresses for the winter!  I made this outfit out of an old pair of shorts.

Tim and Emma went to Walgreens to pick up some medicine.  When they got home Emma came running in to tell me that they got a “prize” for Everett.  They found him a cute little t-shirt!  Yes, the shirt says… iPood.

Emma frequently interchanges words that sound similar.  In the bath Tim gave Everett a mohawk and Emma thought she said mo”hog”.  So, anytime she sees Everett with his hair like that she makes the snorty sound. :)

Emma and I painted our toes, she chose blue sparkles, and Everett watched…and chewed on the remote.  Why even buy toys?

We missed church today, Tim has been sick this weekend and Everett has been coughing for a while now.  I took him to the doctor on Thursday and she said it was just allergies (it’s really not bad at all compared to Tim) and drainage.  As far as the fussiness, she said it’s probably just teething!  Tim on the other hand, was MISERABLE with a summer cold.  We are just hoping Emma and I don’t catch it and that Everett’s doesn’t get any worse!

Since we were stuck at home, we made “magic mud” (cornstarch mixed with water) and discussed it’s properties.  She thought it was neat that you could form it into a ball and then the ball would melt in your hands.  However, you can tell she’s definitely my kid…she would not have anything to do with sticking her hands in it!  If she got even the slightest amount on her hands she had to wipe it off immediately :)

Later in the afternoon, Emma requested to go swimming and Tim thought some time outside might clear out his head a little.  The kids had fun!

After swimming, Emma was tired and cranky.  She didn’t want to eat dinner and as a desperate last attempt to get a little food down her, I agreed to put sprinkles on her macaroni.  It did work, she ate a little!

Everett was difficult to entertain today (he’s very fussy from his teeth).  He played in the bean bag and then they both took a bath…it seemed as if night-night could not get here quick enough today!  He did have a good time with Emma and the bubbles in the tub though :)

So here are the pictures of mom with the kids that look alike.  Cracks me up!!