11 months and 24 months

Bailey is our little Drama Queen! She is loving all the attention from her sister and they play pretty well right now. Cross your fingers. :) She is still scooting on her bum to get around and is getting fast at it. She can pull her self up on to things but she is just scared. She loves to eat, eat and eat. I think for her 1st birthday we are going to do A Very Hunger Caterpillar Party. She loves to say dada and we are working on saying mama.:) She waves bye bye and blows kisses. She loves to play with her sister and take away what ever she is playing with. She lights up when mom walks into the room and is so mad when I leave her sight. We love Bailey so much and we are so glad she came to us.

I can't believe I have a TWO year old. I mean she has been acting like she is 2 since she was 18 months old but she is TWO! Emma is such a loving, caring, stubborn little girl. She is so sweet to her sister and wants to hug or have her sister sit by her all the time. Boy does she through some good temper tantrums. I sometimes wonder if they will ever grow out of them. Emma loves her Dance class and just had her First Dance recital and she did great. She had her Elmo Party and loved it. Ella her Best Friend came to her party and I'm pretty sure she was more excited about that then anything else. Emma is into Elmo, dancing, watching the Ellen Show with mom, watching Monsters University everyday and loves to play with her friends. She is finally cutting three more teeth and is doing great with her language. I feel like she is echoing more and more so hopefully we can actually understand what she is telling us. She will walk up to us and say something in her own little language and I just have to shack my head yeah. :) She is so fun and we can't wait until Christmas. She is going to love it! We love you Emma!

9/10 months and 22/23 months

I'm a slacking on updating each month of the girls. Bailey is our little social drama queen! She loves to be around and watch other kids but she knowns how to turn it on and off when she wants to be with mom or wants something. She is definitely a momma's girl. (It has its up and downs) We have another butt scooter in our family. :) She gets around scooting on her bum just like her Big sister did. Only this time Bailey rotates from each side to side as she scooters as to where Emma used one side and used her hands more. Bailey loves to eat!!!! She will eat anything we give her as long as she can pick it up and put it in her mouth. She loves to watch her Big sister play and to get into anything on her level. She is pulling her self up more and more when she isn't lazy. ;) My favorite thing she does right now is when she wants to be picked up she will hold her arms up and open and close her fingers like Pick me up! I love it! She got tubes put into her ears about 2 weeks ago and it has made a big difference. I know this sounds silly but she never use to sign more but ever since her tubes she claps her hands and actually signs more when she wants to. ;) She babbles all the time and uses her lungs every once in a while to. She is cutting her "vampire" teeth right now and that leads into our story last night. We ended up taking her to the Instacare because she woke up from her nap with from hives on her cheek and lower back. She had a fever of 101.2 and her heart rate was 178. They gave her some steroids to clear up the hives and to monitor her during the night. She was fine this morning with no hives and slept great but I ended up taking her to see Dr Weipert and he seemed like she maybe touched something and she reacted from it or something in the air. But he didn't seem to worried about it. He said her heart rate was okay…200 plus is something he would of been concerned about. Other then that Bailey is our sweet, loving, drama queen. :) We are so blessed to have her in our family. We love you Bailey!

Emma needs to stop growing up! I can't believe she will be 2 on Saturday. She is our miracle baby and I am so grateful to have her spunky little personality in our family. She might be in her terrible twos but she does things that make us laugh. She graduated from PT which we are happy but sad at the same time. Mark has been with Emma since she was a month old. We will miss him but are excited she is doing awesome. She is working with April her Speech Therapist and still works with Paul OT and Shauntell. We are so grateful for Kids on the Move and the help they have given us. Emma is starting to echo more and more of what we say and talks to us in her own little language. She loves her Dance class and has her first Christmas Recital next thursday.:) She loves to play with her friends at Daycare especially Ella! I'm pretty sure besides mom and dad. Ella was one of her first words. :) Emma is obsessed with either iPhones or iPads. She loves to watch Disney Junior or PBS Kids. I'm so excited for her birthday and Christmas this year. She is at such a fun age. Yesterday she sat and watched Monsters University for about 30 min.! She loves to explore and decided to climb out of bed during her nap and wrote with sharpie all over her walls and door. :( With a little Pinterest magic I got most of it our with nail polish. The Brown is still on the wall. Guess we will be painting that room again. Our little Emma explore is such a joy to have in our family and we are excited to see her exceed more. We love you Emma!

Emma's Scare

Emma gave us a scare back in July...she got the flu that was going around daycare and everywhere! But the flu she got was diarrhea and fever which lead to dehydration which then lead to a seizure. Let's start from the beginning. We had Sara's kids this week because they went on a cruise. 4 kids under the age of 3...crazy huh!? Anyways, we went to daycare as normal but Michelle said Emma had had a few loose poops and was getting a fever. She was not feeling well and she had a fever of 99.9. I gave her Tylenol before we all left. When we got home she was acting normal besides me changing her butt every 5 minutes because of diarrhea. She wasn't eating that much and was drinking little to. It was around 7:45 when I was changing her diaper she was flipping out! She started getting really stiff and grunting. She was holding her breath for a while and it was freaking us out! She then stopped which felt like forever but it was probably a minute or two. She then looked really tired and I didn't want her to go to sleep because I had NO idea what that was. I was crying and trying to call my mom and she wasn't answering. I finally called my dad and he told me to just take her into the hospital. So Steve gave her a quick blessing and I called Lacie over to watch the kids and we left to the hospital. Of course on our way over she was looking better. :) The power of the Priesthood! My mom finally called me back, she was at a RS activity and she told me she probably had a fever induced seizure. She was going to go over to my house to watch the kids so Lacie could go back to her family. Anyways, after a 5 hour visit in the ER my mom was right. She had a seizure induced by a fever. They monitored her for a while and gave her an IV because she was a little dehydrated. It was the scariest moment which seemed like forever. My pedi Dr. did say she is more likely to get them again since she had one. So let's hope she never gets a high fever again. I felt bad because I never gave her tylenol the rest of the night because she was playing with Sophie all day/night and I never felt to see if she was hot. She was such a trooper at the hospital. It is so sad to see your child in a bed hooked up to an IV and feeling sick and you can't do anything! I am so grateful for the power of the Priesthood, family and friends. I couldn't have done it without Lacie coming over to rescue me, my parents for taking over and then my sister Rondee taking Sophie and Owen the rest of the week so I could give Emma my full attention. We love our little Emma and we are so happy she is healthy and happy now!

July to Beginning of September

We have had such a good time these past few months I haven't had time to blog. We had our first experience going to a Drive In with our girls and it was fun. Emma loved to walk around in the Pilot and eat the popcorn. Of course it was really humid that day so it was hot in the car. We made a bed in the back of the Pilot, ate popcorn and candy and tried to watch the movie. We saw Despicable Me 2 and Man of Steel. The girls did pretty good through the first movie but they were tired towards the end and it was hard to get them to sleep. Overall we learned that it was fun but not to take the little ones next time. :) July 4th we went to the lake with part of my family and went jet skiing and had a BBQ. It was fun to be with family and we ended the night watching fireworks with our neighborhood. We love living in Lehi and love our neighbors and ward. Steve ran for Mayor of Lehi and lost by 16 votes during the primaries. We are so proud of him. With that lose he gained a knowledge that he needed to go back to school so he started school last week at Seton Hall. Its an online Master's in Communication and Leadership. I'm so proud of him for going back to school to help him further his education and knowledge in Higher Ed. He loves working at UVU and wants to go far there. Our Adventures these past few months have also included miniature golfing, Discovery Gateway, BBQ with friends and playing golf in the front yard. I love the summer and it makes me sad to think Fall is here and that means Winter is around the corner. :( We love playing together as a family and can't wait to see what other adventures are in store for us!

8 months and 21 months

Time is really flying by...Bailey is 8 months old and is such a happy, loving baby. She loves to watch her sister and wants to join in. She still doesn't like her belly so as soon as she figures out she can move around with her hands and knees my life is going to become something different. Life of 2 toddlers! :/ Bailey loves to eat! She is mostly on table food...soon we will introduce the whole milk! Yahoo! She just cut her First tooth!!! We never thought this day would come so soon. She cut her first tooth 8 months before Emma did. ;) I knew the day was coming because the last couple of weeks she has been a little cranky and drooling everywhere. Her hair is growing in slowly but surely. Good thing she keeps her headbands in. I can't leave this girl anywhere without her on the floor. She will lean forward so fast that there were a few times were she was about to fall off our bed or couch. Bailey is babbling more and more and loves to dance. She is such a chunky little baby and we love her! Emma started Dance class and loves it. The first day I took her and her friend Ella to dance but Emma just cried the whole time and didn't want to participate. She would just watch herself in the mirror ( I know shocking right) or go over to the drinking fountain and whine for water. The last two times I just dropped her off and she did MUCH better! She loves the tumbling part of class so our next class for her will be tumbling. :) Steve is really excited about all the extra cost of raising kids. ;) Emma loves to play and watch all kids. If she sees any kids she will go up to them and say hi or just stare at them. She still loves Elmo and this year for Halloween we are all going to be Sesame Street characters. Emma will be of course Elmo, Bay will be Abby Cadabby, Steve will be Cookie Monster and I will be Big Bird. I'm so excited about this and it took some convincing on Steve's part but he is happy he only has to wear a t shirt and eat my Chocolate Chip Cookies he loves. :) Emma is trying to talk more and more but she will meet with a speech therapist this next week to see if she qualifies. Which I'm sure she will but we will see. She is still drooling a ton and with talking to everyone on her team we decided she probably has a sensor mouth problem so hopefully with the help of the Speech therapist we can get some exercises for that mouth. I think I am going to go back to the ENT and get her upper part of her mouth clipped as well. It's just so close and you can't see her upper teeth ever and I think it will help with her speech to. I was going to talk to the ST about it before I set up an appointment. Emma loves to run and play, sing, be outside, watch LA LA, eat (ALL the time) and hang out with her family. She may have her moments but we sure love her and her personality!

7 months and 20 months

I am really behind on my post...Months 8 and 21 are next. :) Bailey has such a personality and we love her so much. She is sitting up and rolling over when she feels like it. She loves to say Da Da but LOVES her mommy. She is going through this separation anxiety thing and its not fun when mommy leaves her sight. She loves to watch her big sister move and really really wants to move with her but she is to lazy to be on her belly. She loves her baby food but loves whatever we are eating to. She will be moving to table food soon! YAY! Its a lot cheaper then baby food.;) She is are Chunky Monkey and we love all her rolls. Bailey loves to bounce up and down when music is playing and wave her arms up. She still is going to be our Singer cause she still has those lungs! She is getting so big fast. She is probably around 18-19 pounds and wearing size 9-12 month clothing. We love our Bay and her sweet smile and laugh. She is such a happy, easy going baby as long as she is fed. :) Emma is our little Diva! She is already in her terrible two's and not even 2 yet! Boy are we in trouble! Emma still loves to read, sing songs, and play with her friends Ella, Golden, Owen and Sophie at Daycare. She is our social butterfly with an attitude. She has the best smile and laugh (sometimes I can't tell the girls apart when they are babbling or crying).Emma loves Elmo and has to watch either a movie or You Tube videos of him. She loves to push her stroller and shopping cart all around the house and loves to take out ALL the toys and spread them across my house. :) She is working with Paul, Shauntell and Mark will come every quarter now. She is doing awesome and I feel like she is babbling and saying a lot more words. At least tries to say words. If we can get her tantrums and melt downs taking care of this parenting thing well be easy. ;) We love our Emma Rose and she is such a silly, fun loving little girl.

6 months and 19 months

Bailey is 6 months almost 7 because I am a slacker on blogging. She was 17.5 lbs.(68%) 26 inches long (58%). She rolls over but doesn't like to be on her belly. She just learned to roll back on to her back so that helps but sometimes she gets stuck. She LOVES to eat her baby food. She loves squash, green beans, garden veggies, sweet potatoes, bananas, pears, banana berry mix, and apple pear mix. She is eating twice to three times a day and drinks 4-5 oz bottles. She is sitting up pretty much on her own but sometimes she falls. She loves to chew on anything she can put in her mouth and loves to eat wagon wheels. She loves to watch her sister and I'm sure she will be crawling soon to keep up with her. She started saying da da and Steve LOVES it! We are working on the ma ma. :) She has got some healthy lungs on her and she better be a good singer with the way she screams. We love Bailey so much and glad she is with us now. They say terrible two's but I think its the terrible 18-20 months. ;) Emma is very good at tantrums and will throw her self to the floor if she didn't get her own way. You ask her if she wants to go in a time out and she stops crying and goes straight to the time out spot and stays there. At this point its good and bad. She calms her self down (good) but she likes to go into time out (bad). She has learned to hit back from daycare but so far not to her sister. Deep down she is my sweet, gives the best hugs little girl. She is growing and on target with things. Her speech is a little behind but she will get there. She says please, cheese, thanks (when she wants to), ma ma, da, see ya, mom ma (grandma), Mom pa (grandpa), more, Emma, and Elmo or la la. So hopefully we can get up to 50 words by the time she turns 2. She loves to go to daycare to play with her friends, loves nursery, loves to set in all of Baileys things and she loves to watch Elmo or play on moms phone! Emma loves music and loves to sing! Some of her favorites are Old McDonald, Wheels on the bus, I love to see the temple, Popcorn popping, I am a Child of God, If your happy and you know it, and Families can be together forever. She is still working with Mark, Paul and Shauntell and we are so proud of her. She improves more and more each day. We love her so much!

Discovery Gateway and more

I got a day off last week so I told Steve he should do the same and we should do something as a family. So he did and we went to the Discovery Gateway. Emma had a blast but it was an expensive adventure. We had to pay full price for Emma. 1 year and younger were free but since Emma was 18 months we had to pay the general admission price. Doesn't that seem silly or what? She loved the little piano in the play house and went back and forth to it. She loved to drive all the cars and going down the slides. She had a blast and it was worth the 8.50 and the family time that we got to spend together. We also are busy with Swim days at work, and swim days at Aunt Sara pool. Emma's new love is to ride in the push cars and loves to wear her "cool babies" (sunglasses). Emma loves to read, color and sleep with her sister. I love our family and the adventures we get to take together and can't wait to see what next month brings.