Sunday, July 18, 2010

Beautiful flowers, not sure what they were but a perfect place to take a picture today while out on a walk

Picking flowers

Playing in the dirt that we hauled into our yard to fill a slope. He loves playing in it!



Our other baby
At the strawberry U-pick farm, needless to say he had no problem eating them too.



WOW!

I can't believe that in 3 short weeks on Aug 9th Emmett will be turning two years old! He is getting to be such a big boy and I sure wish we could make it out to see family more often. Life is busy but good!

Friday, July 2, 2010

June 2010

See the rash on the right side of his tummy? After Emmett was put on antibiotics for an ear infection, we discovered that he was allergic to Penicillin. So he can't have anymore of those but luckily they have plenty of other options if we ever need it again.
Maizie our 3 year old Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
Covered in food! What's new!?
Getting so big, most times I don't notice until I see a picture taken of him. He'll be two years old Aug 9th and the time couldn't have gone any faster.
Emmett is a busy energetic little guy who loves nothing more than playing outside, trucks, cars planes, and any other number of boy type activities. He will run to the back door as fast as his little legs will carry him like an escaped convict and head straight for his shoe. "Shoe! Shoe! Out side! Outside!" Happy as a little clam.
His sentences are really starting to come together and he tries to express as best he can what he wants but if you can't figure it out he gets pretty frustrated. Temper tantrums as most kids his age go through right now are a daily thing and I've just had to learn clever ways of diverting or diffusing them. Mostly I ignore them until he calms down and then I direct him to another activity and before he knows it he's forgotten all about why he was mad in the first place. Luckily I haven't experienced too many of these in public and I'd like to keep it that way. I know this is just a stage and eventually he'll grow out of it.

Things Emmett Likes:
-puzzles
-cars, trucks, planes etc
-Outside!
-water & swimming
-books
-slides
-Going to see the boats
-going to see the animals at the petting zoo
-running and exploring
-climbing
-all fruit

Things he doesn't like:
-getting his teeth brushed
-being inside for longer than an hour
-vegetables except salad...go figure
- socks
-sunglasses
-most diaper changes

New things he can do:
- sings most of Old McDonald & Row Row your boat
- finishes sentences in his books. Like "There are six red... and then he'll say Kites!
-learning to brush his own teeth..with some help
-knows the names for body parts (mostly face) and his clothes
-goes up and down a small slide on his own
..and I'm sure a lot more that I just can't remember right now lol. Gets hard to remember all that when he is really learning so much everyday.
We've spent lots of time going to parks, and the beach (unfortunately bringing a camera to the beach is a bad idea with a toddler)
Soon i will have some petting zoo pictures and strawberry farm pictures.