April !

hmmm what's in here

Eating all by myself!

The result of a face plant on a gravel road a few days before

Playing in the rain with some friends.

April Play date with his friends!

Hi Everyone,

The weather is finally getting nice outside (almost feel like I should knock on wood) and we've been out in the yard lots, out on long walks and just taking in the sun as much as we can. Emmett is doing great, there are new words each day and I can no longer keep track of them! He's had his third haircut at home because he freaked out when we tried to take him in to a barber to do it. Cutting hair on a moving target is no easy task but I think I did pretty good considering.

He's 20 months old, weighs 27.8 lbs and is 31.5 inches tall! He is climbing on and off the couch up on to the coffee table and the other week he got his foot up over his crib railing. I was really hoping we could wait a little while longer to get him into a big boy bed but that might have to happen sooner than later. Next up, potty training! Hoping we can have that licked by sometime this summer, we'll see.

We are hitting that so called terrible twos thing a little early and the temper tantrums have begun. We had to exit Home Depot today because Emmett was having a full melt down and was thrashing and screaming at the top of his lungs because we wouldn't let him take something off the shelf he saw. Thank God, I'm not the only parent I know dealing with this new aspect. We were at a big play-date yesterday with a few of his little buddies and a they're all doing the same.

Emmett as of mid March is finally fully feeding himself for the most part with forks and spoons. He's even getting good at getting spoonfuls of cheerios and milk into his mouth without spilling the milk out. I really like this so much better than us feeding him, at least this way we can all eat together in the morning now.

Easter was kind of a bust for this year, i thought he might be a little bit into finding some of the plastic easter eggs i hid around the living room but he found one and quit preferring to only play with that one. Oh well, next year will be more fun.

We have a busy month ahead with my sister Lisa visiting for 5 days on the 12th and then my best girl friend Theresa coming two weeks later for 5 days too! I am so excited, it's not often that people make it out here to see us. Missing family and friends a lot lately.

Also Tyler had some really good news as he was offered a permanent full time job with he City of Courtenay for whom he's been temping since Jan. Tyler really likes working for the city much better than his old job so i'm happy for him above all the other perks that he's somewhere that he enjoys.