Friday, February 8, 2013

Happy to You, Papa!

Today is my "other" Dad's birthday. :-) 

The whole clan came over tonight to celebrate Papa's birthday! Also, in just 11 more days will be his dad's birthday, so after dinner we sang Happy Birthday to them both. :-)

Marble slab, oreo ice cream cake...
mmmmm it was as delish as it sounds. :-)

Happy Birthday to our 2 Papa's!!!

Blowing out their candles!
I only put 3 candles on the cake. 
Otherwise, we would have had to call the fire department out! :-)

yummy in their tummy!
Molly sitting with her cousin Ryan, & enjoying that cake!

Emma sitting in Grandma B's lap, considering a bite of her cake but she isn't quite sure about it yet. 
Picky thing, she is! 

Later tonight, I went in to check on her and this is how I found her...

 LOL, silly thing. She ends up all kinds of ways throughout the night!
But so far..night night time, is still a breeze! Thank God! :-)

Happy Happy Birthday, to a man I am forever grateful to call my dad! He took me in,called me his own, raised me up,  and has loved me my entire life without fail. I do not know where I would be, or  even now, know what I would do, if I did not have you in my life. I love you so much!!!!
And Molly & Emma love you too. And seeing how you love them too, just brings so much joy to my heart!


Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Bye Bye Cribs!

Today we had to say goodbye to our cribs! I had hoped we wouldn't have to do this until they were three but we  did make it a month shy of my goal. :)
Rick text me this morning while I was at work and said Emma had fallen out of her crib  but said that she was okay. :-(
I swear my heart stopped. Tears swelled up in my eyes, and I sulked about how I should have been there to love on her when she got hurt. Still struggling with this working mom thing. I absolutely love my job. But I still absolutely hate not being there for my kids 24/7.  Especially when they need me. 

Anyways, one fall and that's all it took. Bye Bye Crib. So thankful she did not get hurt. I really can't believe she fell out. She has never shown any signs before of trying to get out. One time a few months back, I walked in and saw Molly with her leg thrown up, and I thought then that was gonna be the time we had to get rid of the cribs. But it turned out, it was just a fluke, she never did it again. And we had never seen Emma try to do it either, but then down she goes. Right on to the floor. Landed on her back. Poor thing. 

I am sad that I did not get one last picture of them asleep in their cribs but tonight I was sure to get plenty of them getting tucked into their big girl beds.  

Mommy giving Emma lots of night night love 

Daddy tucking Emma in for the night  

Molly getting night night kisses from Daddy

Sweet girl giving mommy night night love

Night Emma Grace! We are so proud of you being such a good girl 
in your big girl bed! 

 Nighty night Molly Bear! 
We are so proud of you for sleeping like a big girl tonight!

Lights out...sweet dreams....
NOT!
These silly girls got up about 45 times running back & forth opening their door, shutting the door, running to jump back in their beds and repeat....giggling the entire time. And I let them do it for about 20 minutes straight just because it was so cute seeing how much fun they were having exploring this new freedom they have been giving. 
Not being locked up in a crib for the night, is apparently the next best thing to heaven! 
Finally Daddy put a end to the fun lol and we had to really say good night. 

I went in about 30 minutes later to check on them and this is what I found...
LOL Emma hanging off the bed
and Molly with her toes scrunched between the rails. 



Silly girls went to bed with no problem! I have heard horror stories about transitioning from cribs to toddler beds, but thankfully tonight was a breeze. :-)

Good night my sweet loves! 
xoxo

Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Things Emma Says

"Scary Moooooonster!"
This has become a fun game for us all. Emma will just yell " Scary Mooooonster" and she & Molly will  take off running & screaming and they will come find me or Rick and Emma will  tell us "oh no! a scary monster!" and Molly will echo her "oh no!  a scary monster" and then of course Mommy & Daddy will play along with the oooh's and the oh my gaaah's and then we all scream and off they go running again! hehe
They are so fun! Lately, the Scary Monster has become a scary Dragon!
" Help! It's a Jagon..."

"Help me! Save Me!"
I don't know where this came from but she says it a lot! She is my drama queen for sure!
She will loudly exclaim.."help me save me as she runs around the house trying to convince someone to save her! Save her from what? I'm not sure, but Molly usually comes to her rescue! :-)

"I Coming!"
Yea, this is the answer I get when I tell her to come here, and she doesn't want to come here.
Or when I tell her to do something or to stop doing something...I almost always get "I coming" out of her mouth. Sometimes, it's not even the grammatically correct response, but I know what she means by it....she means...I'm not going to but I am going to try to make you think that I am about to!!
Booger!

"I wanna hab a tea potty"
Rick and I have very recently been catching the girls climbing up to the reach the minature Noah's ark tea set that has been on their dresser since they were babies. We have even caught them with the tiny pieces up to their mouth! This has surprised me as they have never really been ones to put things they shouldn't in their mouth! Every time we catch them up there we tell them, no,  get down, etc...thinking they are just being michevious!  Well, About 2 days before Christmas Emma told me "i wanna hab a tea potty"  and I asked her "Baby how are you gonna have a tea party?" (We don't have anything to do a tea party with.)
She led me to her room, and pointed up to the dresser where her teeny tiny Noah's ark set sits and said 
"tea potty".....And THEN...it all made sense to me!!! They weren't being mischievious! They were just trying to have a tea party!!!! Bless their hearts. That day, I went out to buy them a real tea party play set and was surprised to find nothing! The shelves had been wiped clean due to Christmas being just a couple days away. I called my mom and asked her to look for one, because her Walmart doesn't usually get wiped clean like ours does. And thankfully....She found one!!! It came with a tea cart on wheels and all! :-)
Tea Party....SMH so dang sweet!

"I wanna watch Bardie"
For several weeks now we have heard "I wanna watch Bardie" ...we have gone through every character we could possibly think of to figure out her Bardie is. They don't even know who Barney is so that was out of the question. But we racked our brains. One night Ms. Deborah came over to see us and she brought the girls some dress up clothes. She pulled one of the dresses out of the bag and it has a picture of Barbie. Emma got so excited "Bardie Bardie Bardie!" she squealed. 
Rick and I looked at eachother and smiled. 
Hallelujah! Mystery finally solved! Thank you Ms. Deborah!!!!

A"I sawwy. I not mean too"
Anytime she is being corrected for doing something she shouldn't have done, in the sweetest, softest voice she will say "I sawwy. I not mean too" 
She can melt your heart in a minute but it's usually for literally just a minute. Then she is back to having to be corrected again. LOL 

"Mom"
Mom???? Seriously??? Is my 2 year old really trying to call me Mom already??? She is too grown for her britches sometimes.
 I am Mommy.  Mom is too grown up for you. Geeze,Emma stay my whittle girl as long as possible! "mom" is a grown up word. I wanna be your MOMMY not your MOM!!!!  :-/

"Me go first"
Evvvvverything is a competition these days between Emma & Molly. Emma usually tries to get ahead by saying " Me go first"  It humors me how at two...they come up with stuff like "me go first"...it's incredible how they just learn what certain words even mean! I mean how does she know that first means She will go before her sister??? I know....i am easily amused by the things they pick up. :)
But if it's something she doesn't want to do...like get her hair washed...she is quick to say "sis, you go first" LOL 

"Sis, you got to eat your shicken or you don't haba snack"
A few nights ago we were having dinner and Emma finished before Molly did. And I usually let them have a snack if they eat all their food. Well, Emma told Molly, " Sis, you got to eat your shicken, or you don't haba snack"  Lol...and when Molly finished her chicken Emma said to her "Gate job sis, I so powd you"  :-)
Emma is SUCH a little momma!! She takes charge, and is just a hoot to watch. Molly is usually such a good sport too and goes along with whatever her sissy says!

"Sis"
I don't know why Emma has started calling me Mom, her sissy SIS, yet Daddy doesn't have to be Dad???
What's up with that???

"My Feener"
Emma is in an "owie" phase. She always wants us to know that something  hurts.  Even tho, nothing ,most of the time is wrong we go along with her act because it's so darn hilarious watching her try to fake us out. 
Her most recent "owie" is her feener! LOL i don't know why but hearing her try to say finger makes me chuckle everytime. 

Silly Emma, you my dear are full of so much personality it is amazing. You are our little actress for sure!!! 
I love you too pieces my little funny bunny!!!

"Oh Brudder"
I swear I do not know how she comes up with this stuff but she does! Sometimes when she gets overwhelmed or caught off guard she will just sigh and say "Oh Brudder" hahaha! 

"Baby Girl"
Molly & Emma often horse play around, and it's always so much fun until someone gets hurt, right? 
Today they were playing & all of a sudden Molly starts crying "owie sissy hurt me" and so I told Emma to please apologize and be more careful next time. And she so very sweetly turns to Molly & says
 " I sawwy, baby girt" ( ours L's sound like T's right now) 
LOL it was the sweetest thing I think that has come out of her mouth yet! "I sawwy baby girt" ...she is just too big for her britches sometimes! I guess that is the little Momma in her :-) 


She has so much personality, I swear I could make this blog post a mile long, if I haven't yet! 
Thanks for reading, I hope you got a smile or two out of this post! :-) 

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Fun with Friends



Olga and Kaylee came over to play with us today!
It was the perfect weather for the kids to enjoy playing on the trampoline.


Love these sweet sweet giggles!!!!!

Having so much fun!




Emma & Olga

Molly & Kaylee

 Our fun day ended with Cheese Quesadillias & snuggled up watching movies!

So sweet! I wonder what they are thinking here? :)

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Tyler's Birthday Party


Tyler celebrated his birthday party at The Little Gym today. 
The girls love going to birthday parties, especially ones where they get to run wild & climb! :)

Emma on the balance beam! 
Don't fall baby! ;) 

Molly's turn!

Look how precious! 
The kids were across the room and one by one they took turns running up to kick this down. 
Molly in action. She makes me so proud! 

Emma taking off! Concentrating hard too with that tongue sticking out! 
I was so proud of them both for participating like big girls!

 Tyler with all of his friends on his special day!
Happy Birthday Buddy!


Happy Birthday Grandma!

Though you are in heaven on your birthday again this year, this is the first year in quite a few that Pawpaw got to be with you too. I miss both of you so much it hurts, but I thank God that your sick bodies are now made new. 
My sweet precious Grandma, you will always be the most amazing lady to me. 
Happy Birthday from all of us here on earth, who continue to miss you so deeply. 


Saturday, December 29, 2012

Christmas with Papa!


Every Saturday after Christmas, we always have Christmas Celebrations with Papa (Terry) and Joyce and all of our brothers, sisters, nieces, nephew, grandparents...on this side of the family. 
There's  a bunch of us, and it is always so much fun! 

Papa & Joyce

LOVE love love this! 
Such a great picture of the girls with their cousins!
Truly, some of my favorite times spent, is watching these kids have so much fun together!

This was so precious! Emma opened it up, and gasped...and I caught the glow on her face as she says
 " A COWN!"

Love my big sisters! :)

Almost all the sisters!!!  This would have been the perfect picture if Kirasten had been in it. 
She had to work tonight. :-( 

Love my Molly Bear!

So sweet 
Molly & Grandma Blanton

It's not often Emma lets people snuggle her. She rather be down playing. 
So She really made Grandma B's night! ;)

Sorry Kirasten! You missed out on another great photo! :-(
We sure did miss you! 

Silly girls! This picture makes me smile :-D

I totally caught these two in the moment! 
I absolutely cherish the sweet moments these girls share! 


hehe Silly times with my Emma Grace!

To Papa & Joyce: 
Thank you for a very Merry Christmas!
We love you so much & appreciate all you do for us. 
Love, 
Megan, Emma, Molly, Emilee, & Ryan! 

For more pictures from tonight you may click HERE