Thursday

Emrie and Henry after a trip around the block Wednesday evening. It started to rain so I pulled the stroller up onto the porch. Wow, it was heavy!

Emrie and Asher playing together today.

Emrie has been able to play with Asher the past couple days and has really enjoyed that. They are fun to watch together. Asher always has some match box cars to play with and always has one to share with Emrie too. Their daddies were great buddies growing up and it is nice to the next generation play together. Henry and Anna are a few months apart but seem to like each other as well. Anna toddles around saying "thank you" and pointing out Henry's nose.

Well in some sort of attempt to get a smidgen of a routine back, the kids were in bed by 9:30 tonight. When school starts up again Greg's 5:30 alarm will be so unwelcome. We will all be heading to bed much earlier. Our tree in the back yard is dropping some leaves already and that is a sure sign fall is on its way.

Praise God for childhood friendships.

Emrie Scores!

Daddy coaching Emrie Ann.

Henry Irons

Henry is in training to be an excellent husband some day!

Praise God for Greg he is a great daddy and a wonderful husband!

Monday

The dining room is painted! A simple painting project turned into a time consuming one, but that seems to be the way it always goes!

Emrie Ann ate such a large breakfast today, it seems like some days she eats such a tiny amount and others she eats like a horse. I guess it probably all balances out, she had french toast, 4 sausage links and a bunch of grapes that she "picked off the tree branches".

Henry ate better today as well, it makes me feel so relieved when he eats well. I know I shouldn't worry excessively about how much he takes in, but I can't help but wonder why some days he enjoys the baby food and others not so much.

Today we took a trip to Lowes and on the way there Emrie needed to go potty so when we arrived I took her straight back to the restrooms, but she got all weirded out and wouldn't go back. So we shopped around a little more until she started doing a little pee dance and then I insisted that she go use the potty, then it dawned on me why she would be so afraid to use the potty there. The last time we were there the automatic sensor flusher went off when she was still going potty and it frightened her. After making her sit on the potty with a bit of force she went and then hopped off of in a Big hurry! I think we conquered a fear!

This evening while Greg and I were painting the dining room Henry was in the Pack 'n Play he let out big cry and Emrie had a extremely guilty look...she bit him. As Greg and I were punishing her she just sat there and smiled, oh boy, she sure makes it hard sometimes.

Henry Michael woke up 4 times through the night last night, a cold, new teeth I don't know why but I am hoping for a more restful night tonight!

Praise God for the way he provides.

Sunday Songbird!

Emrie Ann singing on the way to church Sunday morning. Even with her cold and little horse voice she is still a songbird.

The song she is singing is Jump for Joy! The chorus is:

You've been so good, so good. Lord, You've been so good. You've been so good, so good. Oh, You've been so good to me!

Praise God for Sunday Mornings!

Hot Friday

Spent the afternoon swimming at Mama and Papa's, the water was cool but it felt quite nice on this 95 degree day. Emrie spent most of her time going up and down the ladder while Henry splashed in his crab.

Both of the kids have had colds for the past couple days and this picture shows that Henry doesn't feel his normal perky smiley self. No fevers luckily just snotty noses and a occasional cough. Henry isn't eating well, he refused all baby food today, hopefully tomorrow his appetite comes back. Emrie Ann has a horse little voice, but that doesn't stop her from all of her normal squealing and singing.

Praise God for a nice refreshing day in the pool!

Lots of hard work!

It seems like there is a crunch going on right now. I have a list a mile long of odd and ends that need to be done around the house and so little time before the school year begins. Greg is working hard at scraping the house, this is our main focus right now and I know I have said this before but it is seriously tedious work scraping all the old paint off! Greg is so very particular about his work(as always)which is time consuming but in the end the results I know will be Great!

Yesterday Beth, Jim and Jeremiah went and picked up 6 contractor trash bags full of sweet corn for us to husk, un-silk, cut, and freeze. It is hard work but every Sunday we enjoy fresh sweet corn at Mama and Papas house for dinner.

Mama is multi-tasking here with Emrie Ann. Looks a little dangerous!

The kids didn't mind all the work, it is lots of fun to be out in the yard and play all evening long.

Jeremiah and Emrie Ann spent lots of time playing in the water splashing and spraying each other. Henry spent lots of time on mommys hip and even took a little snooze in his stroller while the corn work went on!

Praise God for our able bodies to do all of these jobs!