Family updates

Calvin's cheesy and sweet smile.


Emerald actually facing the camera.

17 weeks

Right over our house.
Calvin counting and laughing.

On Sunday our sweet little boy will turn 20 months old. The other night he surprised us by counting to 10, and then 13 the next day, all by himself. He learned this from Emerald!! Sad to say, but we have not been working with him like we should. He picks up so much from her--he really is just like a little parrot. We took him to the doctor for his 18 month check (a little late) on Monday. He is 50% for weight, and 75% for length. That is new for us! He feels so solid when you pick him up. He will climb anything, repeat anything, and eat, almost, anything. Most especially he loves his fruit, Elmo, Dora, Diego, playing outside, and we think he may have a little crush on the girl down the street, Avery. Every time he sees her, he smiles, runs, and screams out Avery. It is pretty sweet. Avery has a twin brother, Carson, but we haven't heard him say Carson as often as Avery. He has also started displaying some serious independence. Any time we change his diaper, it is a fit on the floor. Time for bed, you will hear, "uh oh, run, hide" from his sweet little mouth. And hide he does! He has been showing some polite behavior, too. If you sneeze, he says "bless you" and he will tell you please and thank you. There is hope! The one thing he adores more than anything else in life, his "Geeee", aka Emerald, big sister. He worships the ground she walks on whether she is playing with him, or just smacked him. It is pretty sweet to witness. Out little boy is growing up fast. For those who knew Calvin before, he does like his sleep much better these days, thank goodness!! We appreciate that!

Emerald has been the true stinker lately! I won't go into details but lets just say WOW it has been a frustrating couple of weeks including fire, medication, and a very disgustingly messy room involving washing sheets 5 days in a row. She turned 3 1/2 this week, maybe that's it. She has been pretty sweet to Lobster, starting to talk to my belly, kiss it, talk with Calvin about being a big brother, etc. She is super excited about her new cousin, Simon. She loves her dance lessons and playing outside on her new swings. She thinks her daddy hung the moon! She would watch tv 24-7 if we let her. She most definitely has her frequent drama queen moments. All in all though, we are really happy with how she treats her little brother and cooperates around the house with helping. She is a smart little toot.

I included a picture of a hot air balloon we saw the other night flying right over out house, pretty low. The people inside waved to us and Emerald "wants to do that soon". I also threw in a picture of my growing belly. It might not be the best pic, but there will be more! Hopefully we will get some good pics of Skip & I together next week on vacation. We are at 17 weeks with Lobster. We had a doc visit this week and all is well. We scheduled our sonogram for next month, October 15. What a great birthday present!! Even if we aren't finding out the sex, we are super excited to be able to see pics of out little one and to know that he/she is growing healthy inside. Skip is still busy going to Garmin, coming home doing the job of daddy/husband, then putting on his UST hat and working his 3rd job. I don't know how he does it some days. I do appreciate and love him for his hard work.