Emrey and Friends!

Today, we had two of Emrey's friends over, Josiah and Rowan. It was so fun to see these guys together again and interacting so much more than in the past, they are actually aware of each other now! Josiah moved about an hour away a couple months ago, so we haven't gotten to see him for a while. He is only two months older than Emrey and what a difference two months makes! He is crawling and trying to stand up, he has two teeth and does not like to sit still! It was a good little preview for what we will need to do in order to "child-proof" our house in the next couple months and what we might expect Emrey to be doing (thanks Josiah)! We got creative with tupperware and plastic spoons, which the kids seem to prefer over the expensive noise making, light flashing toys...

Rowan's mom, Lindsay & Josiah's mom, Jamie

at a cookout we had, back in October...

8, 7 & 6 months old now... Buddies from the Womb

Everybody's teething....

Josiah was a bit advanced in his toy stealing tactics

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Rolly-Polly Emrey

Emrey doesn't like to hang out on her belly much yet. Ever since she learned to roll she makes use of this new life skill at every opportunity. As you'll see from this quick clip, whenever she is placed on her stomach she immidiately rolls over like she's got springs in her belly. It makes for some entertainment in our house these days...

And here we have some typical playtime with her doting parents... There's not much we can do to help ourselves from making all that baby talk, so please excuse us!

Happy Father's Day and Happy Birthday!

This sunday we celebrated Ellis' first official Father's Day! After church, Emrey and I took Ellis to Pho, one of his favorite places to eat. After returning home, Emrey and I took our sunday afternoon nap, while Ellis got to play his guitar (he is getting really good, by the way). In the evening we went to a cookout with some good friends. Overall, it was a great day and so fun to see Ellis love Emrey so much. It is nice that they get extra time together on the weekends, as she goes to bed so early, he often misses her during the week. And...today, we celebrated Emrey's 6 month birthday. Unfortunately, the celebration involved attending her 6 month check up where she yet again, received another series of vaccines. She was very brave, but did not like those shots :( Here are a few shots I've taken of her this past week as well as today.

Just a few new pictures

We just said goodbye to Jenna and her little boy Lucus who is 18 months old. They were visiting us from Austin for a few days. It was fun for Jenna and I to catch up and Emrey loved watching Lucus run around and chase Bailey. Jenna is a photographer and I got her to take a few shots of Emrey. I thought I would post them, because I think she did a great job capturing her personality at this point in time. I also wanted to say thank you to the Whorf's who got her these adorable little shoes that you'll see below. They have her name and birth date on them, so special!

Thank you Jenna....

What a Big Girl!

Emrey is officially sitting on her own, and loving it! She has gotten many compliments from friends on her "mad sitting skills". Staying on her stomach, or potentially crawling on the other hand is another story. Every time we place Emrey on her stomach, she rolls (like a spring) right onto her back, with a big smile on her face. For some reason right now, she has no interest in being on her stomach. She also has no interest in peaches. We tried that today and she made the funniest face, with her whole little body convulsing. I took Emrey to music/story time at the library today. She was completely mesmerized by all the kids. She loved the blowing of the bubbles and shaking her little rattle to the music, everything is new and exciting for her. I especially liked the "one little, two little, three little Texan's song". I met some new "mom friends" which is always nice :)

These are mostly "assisted" sits

Here are more of her on her own...

Owh..and she loves talking on the phone, this was with Aunt Betsy

Emrey loves to DANCE!

This was just too cute not to post :-)

Emrey on her way out the door on a walk with mom!