August

Eli and Henry

We babysat for my friend Sarah, so she and her husband could celebrate her birthday! Eli and Henrey had fun together, but Emrey and Emma, had a blast!

And, as usual...things got carried away...

Eli is loving finger foods and has not passed up anything I've placed in front of him....yet.

Emrey loves reading to Eli...although he's usually more interested in trying to eat the book, rather than look at it!

Eli is definitely on the move. Just this week, (his 9 month birthday) he actually made it up this step for the first time! He's been working on it for a couple weeks now! He is fast! Yesterday, I got him set up in Emrey's room with some toys and came back a few minutes later and he was nowhere to be found? I looked under the bed...not there, in the closet, not there...he had made his way into the bathroom and was trying to pull himself up on the tub!

Speaking of the tub...Eli LOVES it, even if he's usually tired by the time I get him in there and even though it means getting lots of water dumped over his head by his big sister

"up and down"...what you see, is usually the first thing Emrey asks
Ellis to do when he comes home from work! He usually asks her "okay, how many times do you want to go "up and down"? And she usually says, "how bout two, cause I'm two"! But, when we ask her how many gummy treats she wants, she says "how bout three, because I'm going to be three"! She's learning....

The "cousins", as Emrey likes to call them, came for a weekend back in July. Aunt Kath and I went out to do some dress shopping for the wedding and we came home to this set up in the living room! Ellis was being creative, babysitting 4 kids in 100 degree weather!

Em, Eli, Luke and Drew

So, we found out that all the older kids go back to school this week...that is after I got everyone ready to head over to the neighborhood pool and it was CLOSED! So...after some minor meltdowns, by Emrey and myself, we came home and busted out the baby pool for the first time this summer ! We're definitely going to have to get creative for the next month or so, until it starts cooling off!


The highlight of Emrey's last two weeks has definitely been her rides with Rowan and Ms. Lindsay. Lindsay has so sweetly called twice now and offered to take Emrey on what she calls a "chariot ride". She takes them to the park and Emrey has such a blast! It has also been REALLY nice for me to get some housework done and generally get organized for the day (get dressed, brush my teeth :)

Emrey starts school (MDO) next week and she is really excited! I'm excited for her and I think she'll enjoy it even more this year! And...I'm so happy for her, because Rowan will be in her class again.