10 Months Old

Honestly though, isn't he the cutest little guy you've ever seen in your life???? I can't get over him! Such a doll! And his red hair matched the pumpkins- sooo cute! I wish these were his 1 yr pictures I love them so much! The sweater matches his hair- so perfect!

Here's T at 10 mos: he wants to chew on everything, has no teeth, pulls up on everything, is fascinated with wheels, he likes veggie corn dogs and cherrios best (second to mamma, I guess), he is a bit of a tease- he crawls away from me and goes somewhere he shouldn't be going and he laughs and laughs and crawls faster when I get up to get him. He likes dogs. He loves his sisters. He likes being upside down. He still doesn't sleep through the night, but he sleeps best right next to me. Everyone is so impressed w/ him shaking his head no- it's really the cutest thing in the world. I love him!

Random Pictures in Sept and the first part of Oct

Girls helping Shad wash my car:

This picture is from late August, when he was just learning to pull up on things. He didn't know how to get down from standing so he'd stand so long and his legs would just go further and furhter apart:

Big boy!
ttle guy in his mixmatched pjs (I have a thing for mixmatched pjs).
Emmy's first day of school:

Callie's first day of school. She didn't get to go the first day b/c she was sick :(
T and Natalee:

Halloween Sneak Peek:

Update

TomTom had his 9 month appt today at 9 1/2 mos :) He weighs 18lbs 3oz, he's now little- in 15-20th percentile for his age. He's average height. He nods his head no when he doesn't want something (like food) or when he doesn't want to follow you or for whatever other reason. He waives bye bye, claps to play pattycake, he says mama, dada, bye bye, sometimes what sounds like papa and, I think, Dog. He loves the little dog. He's crawling everywhere, crusing everywhere, falling down everywhere. He is standing for longer periods of time by himself, but he won't do that purposefully by himself- I have to stand him up and let him go (he loves it and yes, I catch him when he's about to fall- that's the part he loves the most, actually). He still doestn' sleep through the night (or anywhere close), but I do, and that's all that matters, right?

We are full swing into things... The girls started circus again. It's a bit more difficult this year w/ the little guy being mobile and the fact that the girls are in separate classes, so we're there from 4:30 to 6:30 two days a week and that is NO FUN for me, but the girls have a BLAST, so I'll suck it up for the team. Emmy's finishing up soccer, with practices only once a week and a game on Saturday. They are maybe still doing tennis- it's tough. I might take a break on this until circus is over. They love tennis and so do I but I'm going insane. Emmy's still doing violin (that's during class time, so it's an easy one) but she talked the teacher into splitting her lession b/t violin and piano b/c she wanted to learn how to play (thanks to Caryn who taught her " 'Tis the Season" at a recent party). Callie is our little worker lately- she's obsessed with work books. She knows almost all of her lowercase letters and their sounds and will now share her numbers with us (She's a tough one b/c she is not at all a showoff unlike another kid I know so she refuses to acknowledge that she knows something- ornery). She is writing words with the foam bathtub letters and blocks. She is doing very well and having fun doing it. Emmy's getting prepped to move up into the next level at Montessori. It will mean the girls will be in two different classes and I think it's going to be hard on both of them, but I think it'll also be good for them in some ways too. Emmy should move up at the end of the semester into a 6-9 yr old class.

So we were watching Mike Huckabee (is his name Mike?) on tv and Shad and I were commenting how nice he looks. At the same time we both said that he reminds us of Thomas when he's old. I thought it was funny we both thought the same thing. So if you want to see our vision of how our little guy will be when he's however old Huckabee is, check him out. Those cute eyes and sweet smile- how did that guy ever get into politics? Don't you just want to hug him?

I'll try to upload our pictures at some point. We've been busy!

Oh and today on the way to school Emmy tells me, "When I go to Heaven and see God, I'm going to tell Him that it's wrong for people to kill pigs and stuff and eat them." Mind you, she eats meat.

Pictures

So I've always wanted to get a real photographer to take some family shots of us. Now that I feel my family is all here, I decided we'd better do it. We were there five minutes and my little princess dove into the ocean- head to toe soaked, full of sand. The photographer thought maybe we should reschedule to get more pics, but we decided to stick it out. Here's a sneak peek:

www.jenniferwilsonphoto.com/blog

And the slide show:

here


I'm excited w/ how they turned out and I can't wait to see the rest of them. What a fun time we had. I am so thankful for my beautiful and happy little family. I am so blessed.

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."