Emerson has been doing FABULOUS at sleeping lately! As I aid before, we started the "sleep training" on Monday night. Both Tuesday & Wednesday nights have been E.A.S.Y! Tuesday I put her down, she cried for maybe 5 minutes and then was out like a light until 5:30am. Only then did she wake up because I woke her. I HAD to feed here before I exploded. Last night, same thing. Aaron put her down. She fussed for a few minutes and then slept for 9 hours before I woke her again at 5:30am. She is the best baby! Love her!
Here is her First Day of School picture:
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Sunday we went to the Oil Ranch. This was our first time and we were very impressed with it. Jackson had a blast! Emme, of course was oblivious to most of it, but she just enjoys being outside. There was tons of stuff to do & look at, so much so that we learned this is more of a spend-the-day-there type place instead of a couple of hours like we did. There was a pumpkin patch, hay rides (didn't get to do this), a train, an Indian village with teepees and some sort of swing thing that my kids were too young for, bouncy houses (didn't do this either), petting zoo, pony rides & cow milking. It was super-fun! Jackson was so excited to see the cow until we actually got to it and then I think he was intimidated by it's size and just buried his head in Aaron's shoulder the whole time. He did say "Bye bye cow. Moo. Bye Bye" as we walked away. He cried on the pony ride too. Last year, he loved the pony ride at his school - this year, not so much. All in all, we had a wonderful time with Gabby & Papa!
Emme was not so fond of riding the pony.
Emme in the hay maze
Jackson milking a cow - he was so proud of himself!
We have a picture of Jackson last year that is similar.
We are silly!
Weee! Look at that static hair!
The obligatory, annual family picture
Jackson "roping" the mechanical calf
Jackson just recently learned how to swing by himself.
Playing in giant tractor tires!
This was at a photo op area....when we got there, we were all alone & trying to wrangle the kids to get a picture. This other mom & her two boys come up - bear in mind, she can hear us saying we want to take some pictures, etc - and they WON'T LEAVE! We left the big pumpkins on the ground & got on the wagon and what did they do??? Got on the dang wagon too. I finally gave up & said "Ok, guys. Let's go." Three guesses what that stupid mom said to her kids....I love this picture because Emme & Jackson's faces both say exactly what we were all thinking - who are you? Why are you here?
Hayride...
... to feed the cows
When the tractor started to take us back, this longhorn
Picking their pumpkins
Emme just pranced all around - it was so cute!
This one cracks me up - she has such attitude!
In the words of Angie: Is she gonna chunk it?
Jackson got a big kick out of ringing this bell on the way out!
I show my students pictures of my kids from time to time when we have extra time. When I showed this one, my Scottish student said Why is your baby in the boot? It cracked me up! Translation: boot = trunk
Well Hello Scarecrow!
Jackson kept throwing the pumpkins down. I was so afraid he was going to smash them.
Aaron caught a piglet - it was pretty tough & I have never heard squeals like that before! Yikes!
And, here's how he was on the pony. ????
