9 months old

So Tommy is 9 months old. Wow, 3 more months and he'll be a year. These past 9 months have flown!

Tommy is crawling, cruising, walking the walls, pushing his walking toy, thinking he can walk, starting to stand on his own, and falling quite a bit :) Poor kid. He says Mama, Baba, and is starting to say Bye Bye and something that starts with G (Grandma thinks it's Grandma). He is waiving bye bye. He's still a happy boy, but he's no longer easy to put to sleep. He now fights sleep almost as much as Emmy used to.

He likes bean and cheese burritos, cheese-stuffed shells, cherrios, green beans, grilled cheese sandwiches, crackers, hummus, toast, etc. He's not too kean on fruit, but likes his veggies.

He cries hard, hates to fall (and makes a HUGE deal out of it when he does- HUGE), and is still a mamma's boy :)

And today is our 8th anniversary! I'm too young to haave been married 8 yrs, right?

Callie

My little Callie was writing some stuff yesterday in the car- mostly she'll write different letters and such but she decided she wanted to write words- she wrote "mom", "tree", "red" and "dog". I helped her start to sound them out and she wrote the letters. Yay for Callie! SHe's showing a major interest in the concept that letters make sounds and sounds make words! It won't be long before she's writing little sentences with the moveable alphabet at school.

Em

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Emmy's college fund should be renamed Emmy's wedding fund.

As she was prancing around to Barbie "Nutcracker" she says, "Mom, would you play this song at my wedding? Like take a cd player and play it? I'm going to dance with daddy and he's going to put me up in the air like that."

Earlier she asked: "Mom, do you think I'm going to be mean to my kids... that I adopt?" (b/c remember she's not having kids b/c she doesn't want needles in her arms). I asked her if I was mean and she quickly said I was (in a that-was-a-dumb-question-b/c-you-know-you're-so-mean kind of way). She went on to tell me again that there are lost kids all over the place and that she's going to adopt them b/c she wants to help some.

Emmy also has a present disdain for China. If something doesn't work right, she flips it over to see where it's made. Of course everything is made in China, so she exclaims "See!! It's made in China. It's junk."

Had to laugh

So I walk into the room and Emmy is on my blackberry, which I had locked, and she says she is calling her dada. I asked her why she was calling him and she said "Because I need to tell him something." So her dad gets on the phone and she says "Dad, I want Vonage."


lol. I have never mentioned Vonage at all- she gets this from advertising on kiddie channels. It's really nothing new though since she's been asking for Orange Glow and Oxyclean and Mr. Clean Magic Erasers for years....

This vonage thing just made me laugh.

Summer is Almost Over :(

I'm sad now that our summer break is almost over. We've really had a good time. The girls are still doing tennis and are doing very well :) They hit the ball better than I do! No more swimming though. Soccer is starting up and Shad is coaching again. Callie goes to soccer practice with Shad and Emmy and practices with the team. She missed the age cut off by 10 days, so she'll have to wait until next year until she has her turn. She's excited to start Circus (I'm not so much). The girls are looking forward to going back to school next week. I'll miss the first day of school again because I have to be in court that morning. I don' t go to court that often and it seems like each year on the first day of school I have a hearing- next year I'll make sure not to schedule a hearing that day. The first day of school isn't that big of a deal though given that the girls are in the same classroom with the same teachers and same friends. But I'm still sad I'll miss it. I'll make Shad take the camera and we'll get some pictures which I'll post next week :)

My boy is 8 mos old!

So Thomas is 8 months old. He's crawling around and pulling up on things. Still no teeth. Just saying mama, sometimes baba. He says mama when he's tired, hungry or wants to be picked up. I can't leave the room when I'm feeding him without him getting kind of frantic saying "Mama mama!" Poor kid.

Goofy girls:

August Photos

These are pictures taken during August, starting with some pictures from home and most of the pictures are from our trip back to Illinois. We had a great time driving the country together. We got to see so much and spend over two weeks together in our little rig :)