Again

This happened a couple days ago, now, but...



MICAH LOST ANOTHER TOOTH!!

Sayings

One day this week the kids were playing hide and seek. Micah was hiding and Emilia was seeking. I heard her stomping down the hallway, yelling,

"Mister Miiiiicah--Where aaaaaare yoooooou?
Miiiiister Siiiiiilly Head, where are you?
Mister Silly Micah Head, Where aaaaaaare yoooooou?"

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This morning I was sitting on the couch with Micah doing the {this moment} post below when he said,

"Everytime I swallow I have bubbles come out of my ear."

Wow....really? I wanna see!

He swallows. We wait...

"Well, it FEELS like it!"

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Yesterday the boys were gone playing golf in the morning, leaving just us girls at home. We were all hanging out in the living room. I left the room to go get something and Audra started crying. From in the kitchen I heard Emilia comfort her,

"It's alright Miss Audwa, I am not going somewhere. I am not going somewhere."

And Audra stopped crying.

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As you may have noticed, Emilia is big on using titles. My mom's brother, Uncle Bill, frequently comes to grandma day with us. She loves her Uncle Bill! The way she says his name, though, sounds more like, "Unka Bill."

And his wife? Well, she's Unka Susan, of course! :)

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My grandma got a new couch this week. Our couch was in pretty sad shape. The cushions were black holes that sucked you in when you sat down. It was a major effort to get up, I mean serious heave-ho effort. I think I realized just how bad it was when "Unka Susan" was here and sat down on the couch. I stood there thinking to myself, "Wow....she just doesn't look at all comfortable." So when my grandma asked if anyone wanted her old couch, I was jumping up and down saying, "Me! Me!" As luck would have it, no one else wanted it, so yesterday we picked up our new-to-us couch (which is also sort of strange because it's the same couch my grandma had when she lived in this house and now it's back here in the very same position that it was some 7 years ago!).

This morning I was snuggling Emilia on the couch after she got up. As she became more coherent she noticed the couch (that we brought in after she was in bed last night).

"Granma got new couch?"

Yes.

"And now this is our couch?"

Yes.

She stuck her face in the couch and took a inhaled deeeeeeeply.

"It doesn't smell like it's our couch."

She smells accent pillow that I kept from the old couch.

"Yup. This smells like our pillow."

I guess it'll take awhile to break in the "new" couch afterall. :)

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Emilia is currently playing with one of her babydolls in the play tent set up in the living room. She just looked at me and said,

"You want to watch me hang out with my baby?"

{this moment}

A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Happy Friday!

My Kids

Finally, I got around to taking posed pictures of my kids. I think it's been 2 years or so since I've done this (and actually sent out copies!). The pics are taken, let's hope the copies are soon to follow! :)

So, here they are:
My awesome, amazing, beautiful, funny, intelligent, goofy, strange, handsome, kind, sweet, stinky, cute, surprising, wonderful kids...













And I can't post these without also saying a huge THANK YOU to my cousin Emily who spent her last day of summer vacation hanging out at my house and helping with kid control and smiles so that I could take these pics! So, here are some with her, my awesome, amazing, beautiful, funny, intelligent, goofy, strange, kind, sweet, stinky, surprising, wonderful cousin:

The Fun We Had With Brooke and Ryan...Part One

I'm only about a month behind on this, but hey...

Nana and Sue bought a slip and slide for everyone to play in. The rules about said slip and slide were a bit of an issue, but the kids had fun in spite of us ole fogies.





This was one of the first days that Brooke and Ryan were in town, in fact, it might have been the first time we saw them after they got here. Brooke kept trying to give Emilia a hug and as awesome as Emilia thinks Brooke is, she just wasn't ready for a hug...YET. Now, shoe stealing--that's a whole different story! (Over the course of the weeks that Brooke was here, Emilia stole her flip flops so much that my mom eventually went out and found Emilia her own pair!)



They were here over the Fourth of July, so naturally there were sparklers







and fireworks!






One morning we headed out the Hall's Fruit and Berry Patch to pick some peaches and blueberries. Sampling the product is important and was by far Emilia and Ryan's favorite part of our trip!






Plus, with all these helpers, I had my blueberries picked in no time!



(A little side note here...if you live in the Knoxville area and have not been to the Fruit and Berry Patch you HAVE to go! It's awesome. Plus, they make some really delicious fried pies and honey...but those are just a bonus to all the yummy fruits and veggies they grow there. I hear they have a kind of corn that is so good you can eat it without cooking it. We're going there one day this week to try it, so I'll keep you posted on that. If you don't live in Knoxville, you can see if there is a pick-your-own farm near you on the Pick Your Own website.)

Ok, I'm going to stop here for tonight. I've got two more adventures to post about (just from when Brooke and Ryan were here!), but they will have to wait for another day. You've already waited more than a month, what's a few more days?? :)

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But, real quick--

In other news...

Emilia has QUITE the imagination! Do you remember Jujah and Fahvey? They don't come around much anymore, but every now and then one of the boys will bring them along to play. Emilia has met them enough to know their names and calls them "Jujah and Father." And I guess she also felt inspired by their occasional apperances because she now has an imaginary friend of her own. Her name is Jenna. The first time I met Jenna was a couple weeks ago when Emilia brought me one of her play phones and asked if she could call Jenna. That same week she didn't get to tell Jenna 'bye when we left my grandma's house AND THEN we FORGOT her (Jenna) at my grandma's house. It was traumatic.

Emilia also has an imaginary pet. I *think* it's a dog (inspired by Toto from The Wizard of Oz). All I know for sure is that Cloodle (that's her pet's name) can fit in her hand and most of the time she carries Cloodle around in one of her purses. We have to feed Cloodle, too. So far, s/he likes pickles, cheese and brussell sprouts. Personally, I just love the name! It makes me smile everytime she says it.

"Mommy! Where mah Cloooo-dle? Oh, I fine him. You hole mah Cloodle for me?"

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In other, other news...

I can't believe Audra will be 6 months old TOMORROW!!!!