More teeth

Both of Emme's bottom lateral incisors (on either side of the middle) had been threatening to come through for about a week & a half. Monday (9/20/10) was the day! Both popped through, which put an end to her fussiness just in time to go get shots. Poor pumpkin can't catch a break!

FYI: She has been feeling a little out of sorts since the shots, so we are keeping an eye on her. We may have to miss sweet Hailey Jo's 2nd birthday party! Boo! ;(

I Should Have Asked Questions!

Last Thursady, Jackson stayed home sick after a night of repeatedly throwing up. Of course, he was perfectly fine all day, but I still kept him home. Early in the afternoon, Jackson said he was done playing in the playroom & wanted to go downstairs. I told him we had to pick up the playroom first and that I would help him. He & I both got busy and at one point he came and said "I threw the trash away for you, Mommy!" Great! thanks, Jackson! We continue about our day. Around 3:30pm, I start getting ready to go up to school for Open House. I was going to go up early to make some copies & Aaron was going to come pick Jackson up. I'm putting makeup on in our bathroom and Jackson is playing trains in the playroom. At one point, I hear him moving his step stool in his bathroom, so I know he is going potty. Suddenly, I hear screaming - it's the same screaming cry he has when he throws up & is scared. So I figure he's getting sick again and I go running into the bathroom. Well.....there he is standing on his stool, pants around his ankles, screaming and water is going EVERYWHERE! The toilet is majorly overflowing! I grab him, throw him in the hall and turn off the water at the wall. I then start pulling every towel in the linen closet out & throwing it down to sop up the water. Jackson is still crying & I'm trying to tell him it's ok and the potty is just broken. I asked him what he flushed and he said only tee-tee & a tee-tee target (to practice his aim). I asked him how many tee-tee targets. He said only one. After the immediate calamity is over, I call Aaron & tell him. He asks if the dinosaurs are still on the edge of the tub - they are, so that's not the problem. We leave to go to my school. When I get home, Aaron says he had to fish a plastic PetsMart bag out of the toilet - the trash Jackson threw away for me.

*sigh* I should have asked questions! Lesson learned for me & for Jackson!

15 Months

Emme turned 15 months on the 16th, but I waited until we had her well check to post. Actually, I have been crazy nuts busy at school & haven't had a moment until now anyway! Yesterday, Dr. P was very impressed with her development. She is right on schedule and even ahead in many areas. She got 3 immunizations & her flu shot. Poor bitty! She was a champ & only cried until I picked her up. Jackson got the FluMist, so he was a lucky duck!
Emme's stats: 23 lbs - 55%
30 in - 25%
Dr. P projects her adult height to be 5'5" or 5'6", just like her momma, but says it's all really a guessing game. She had taken a dip in weight a while back, so he said now she is playing catch up!

She wears a 12-15 mo in most things, but is starting to be able to wear 18 mo in a few things. Size 4 diaper.

Talking: Emme says mama, dada, Jackson, Yaya, cat, dog, hi, bye, thank you, more, & book

She can identify her hair, nose, eyes, belly and sometimes toes. She plays patty cake, blows kisses, claps, gives high fives, does the hand motions to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, uses her spoon if we scoop & will sometimes successfully stab food with her fork. She loves to put toys inside other containers and she also loves to read! She likes to dance and there are 2 dances she does: one where she twirls around in circles and one where she just rocks her head back & forth (see video below). Both are SO cute! She adores Jackson & wants to do whatever he is doing! It melts my heart to hear them laughing & playing together! I love it!

This one is a Daddy's Girl through & through! She squeals with delight when he comes home each evening. He gets the biggest kick out of it! She is just precious & makes us laugh (and sometimes cry) everyday! We could not be more blessed!

Saturday, we went with Gabby & PaPa to see the Houston Area Live Steamers. Basically, they are just scaled down steam & diesel trains that you can ride. It is donations only & you can ride as many times as you'd like. Jackson & PaPa both have a mutual love of trains, so this was a winner in their books! When we got there, I asked Jackson as we were walking up if he was ready to ride the steamers. He looked at me & said very matter-of-factly: "That's a diesel, Mommy!" How could I be so ridiculously stupid??? It cracked me up! We found out later that the steam engines only come out in the cooler months, so PaPa was dissapointed about that, but it was a different way to spend a Saturday & the kids both liked it.

Our ride

Take a look at PaPa's face - utter elation!
I know I'm going to get in trouble for posting this - Gabby does not like to be photographed!

Sorry, Gabby! PaPa was too funny!

There's that tongue again!

Sunday, we played outside until almost dark. Jackson loves playing tee ball & Aaron loves coaching him!

Emme tooled around in her car or on her ride on toy.

Labor Day 2010

This Labor Day we went to San Antonio to stay with my cousin, Jessica and her sweet husband, David & their 2 boys, little David & William. We had a BLAST!

Did a little swimming:

Nana & her babies

Emme had so much fun swimming with her Daddy!

She was so brave - she would even let us let go of her

when she was in the floaties.

(The water is freakishly blue in these pics!)

Jackson, on the other hand, did not want any part

of this pool. He was content to be an elephant instead!

Jessica & William

William is a miracle baby. Jess was pregnant with twins & had problems from the start. Sadly, she lost the girl baby, but William held on and was born at 30 weeks. He was in the NICU for months and is now a prefectly healthy, tiny little almost 2 year old boy! He is so stinkin' cute!

This pic is blurry, but Brennan was such a trooper with

these WILD boys! He played & swam & allowed them

to beat him up, all the while with a smile on his face!

We went to Sea World on Sunday:

The whole crew:

Jessica, David, William, David, Clay, Nana, Emme, Aaron,

Me, Jackson, Yaya, Pops & Brennan

Tiffany, JC & Hailey met us there:

Jackson & Hailey ADORE each other and will marry one day! ;)

Emme loves Hailey too - they will be such great sisters-in-law!

Emme also loved the cotton candy JC gave her!

Eating Brennan's doritos

Clay shared his popcorn & the kids are forever his!

The kids loved the sea lion show

Emme pointed at everything!

We love hanging out with Tiff & her family - wish we lived closer!

Emme pooped out on us in the penguin house

Sweet Williams girls!

Jackson liked being splashed with water at Azul.

Fish out of water! (Ok, it's really a mammal)

Jackson pooped out on us at Azul!

It was 4pm and he hadn't had a nap - it was bound to happen!

We brought our bouncy house & the kids jumped:

We rode bikes indoors:

William & Emme

Emme laughed & laughed when I tooke her for a spin

on the plasma car!

Right before we hugged bye & headed back to Houston

Jackson had to hold Daddy's hand in the car.

So sweet!

I think a fun time was had by all! We hope to go back VERY soon!

Heimliched

Friday was an eventful day for us! The kids' school called me on my cell at about 11am (during my lunch) saying that Emme had choked on a piece of apple at lunch and they had to do the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge it! I was actually pretty calm about it as they were telling me that I needed to take her to the doctor before she was allowed any food or milk to make sure that the maneuver hadn't caused any swelling that could prevent her from breathing or swallowing anything else. I quickly called Aaron to tell him, arranged coverage for the remainder of my classes, called the Dr to make an appointment and high-tailed it out of there to get my baby! As I was leaving my mom called and said that they had pulled her out of a meeting to tell her about Emme. I guess they had called my classroom a couple of times, but I was eating my lunch in my friend's classroom so it took them a bit to round up my cell number. Emme's school principal, Stacy had called to report it to her boss, Sharee and Sharee happened to be in a meeting with my mom. Since they hadn't gotten me yet, they told her. Aaron was upset he was 3rd on the list, but it didn't really happen that way. Anyway, I take Emme to the Dr and he said she appeared to be fine. He has never seen a child be heimliched (is that a word? It is now!) to their detriment! We fed her softer foods on Friday night - we had oatmeal for dinner - in case she was a little sore, but since then she has been eating her normal foods with her usual gusto! Stacy told me that the dues we pay in addition to the monthly childcare costs go to pay for the employees CPR & first aid training. I will never again complain about paying those dues! Those sweet, wonderful people saved my sweet, wonderful baby girl! I thank God every day for putting such special people in Jackson & Emme's life!