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As of her morning nap, Emilia is now a two toother.

GO TENNESSEE!!

In anticipation of UT's first football game this evening, our family dressed in our UT gear and have spent quite a bit of time today cheering for them. These are two of my favorite pictures I took this morning. GO UT!!!!



Then here are some pictures of Emilia's first card game. She helped me play UNO this afternoon. Check out the look she is giving John in the second picture!





More to come soon...

Micah's Musings

This morning Micah and I were playing "I Miss You" in my room (it's a popular game at our house). It goes something like this: one person hides. Everyone cries because he is gone and we will miss him soooo much. The hider pops out, but no one can see this because we are all "crying" too hard. After several attempts by the hider to get our attention, the criers notice that the missing person is back and we hug and kiss and celebrate the missing person's return. I don't know, but the kids love it. Anyway...we were playing this and Micah was the one hiding. It was at least the fourth time in a row, so I changed things up a bit and found him hiding instead of waiting for him to come out. When I found him, this is what he said: "Mommy, how did you know it was me? I had my eyes closed!"

Later on, I was packing us up for a pool party. I had the kids put their suits on before we left and was putting their dry clothes in a bag in case they wanted to change before we came home. I thought I had everything, but a few minutes later Micah walked up to me holding Josiah's underwear by his fingertips at arm's length and says (in a sing-song voice): "Moooooooommyyyyyyy, you forgot Josiah's stinky uuuuun-deeeeeees!"

My One Tooth Wonder

Well, guys, my baby girl has her first tooth. Woot! We got up this morning and there it was, poking through on the bottom. SHE'S GROWING UP SO FAST! AHHHHH!


So, while I'm on here again I'm going to share a few pics from the last couple of weeks. Here is Micah attacking John. I love the look on his face!


Emilia has also started eating baby food and cereal. Most of you know this is my LEAST favorite part of babies, but here we are anyway. Wanna know how she lets me know she's had enough? She waits until the spoonful of whatever is in her mouth an then she blows a raspberry, thus spraying me and everything else around with food. Yum. Why do people like this????


Yesterday we went to the zoo with my friend Angela and her kids. I didn't get many good pics because that Kate is a hard one to catch on camera!! But I did get this one picture that is really cute. Micah and Kate were conspiring their getaway. And I will admit, this is a reenactment.


This last one is Josiah listening to his FP3 player this morning. He really likes the stories on it. He really likes listening to stories, period. We have a few books on CD (kids books, that is) and he likes to listen to them in the car, or even at home, if I've brought them in from the car. This picture just reminds me of the ones from when my brother, sister and I were little and we would listen to records with those ENORMOUS headphones on. And really, for the times, these headphones are enormous, I guess.

Forget Something?

They boys played in the sprinkler this afternoon. After coming in, I helped Micah pick out clothes and then went in the living room to play with Emilia. A few minutes later Micah walked out, dressed and carrying his underwear in his hand. I asked, "Did you forget to put on your underwear?" He said, "No," pulled out the waistband of his pants, looked down and said, "Yes." Then he looked in his hands and laughed. What a silly boy! :)