Congrats Kidron!

Saturday Kidron graduated from Baltimore Lutheran High School - Congratulations, Kidron! We traveled to Timonium for the ceremony, and it was really great to see so many people from Lutheran. Emma met Mr. Barth, my softball coach (and his parents), and one of my classmates, Heather, also!

Kidron's picture from the senior slide show:

This was the third graduation that Emma has been to already (and like Karene said to me, you forget how long the graduations at Lutheran are until you're sitting at one)...she amused herself by chewing on her foot:

We had dinner at a yummy Chinese restaurant afterwards. Kidron with Emma, who is being easily distracted:


Yes, they even ate their cake with chopsticks:

Two pictures of us!

Karene and Jeremy

My future brother-in-law :-)

Emma's sitting!

This past week, Emma started to be able to sit on her own.

At first, she wasn't quite sure what to think:

And then she realized how much fun it is to be upright!:


She also has a bit of a gorilla pose in the above picture (for all you Triple Espresso people...Bobby Bean lol)

Emma is holding herself up with her hands pretty good now:

She sure is pleased with herself!

Catching up

So sorry that there haven't been any substantive posts lately. We've been busy during the week and then last weekend was a whirlwind of activities!

Emma was supposed to go to the doctor for her 4 month check up last week but we missed the appointment, so we went this past Tuesday. She weighed 11 pounds 13.8 ounces and is 24 inches tall! She also got immunized, one of which was a tetnus shot - so she's been a little cranky because of that. Today she seems to be back to her normal self though.

Emma is now almost able to roll from her back to her stomach. She seems to get stuck at the top, so it shouldn't be too much longer:

Martin has been reading to Emma from the Jesus Storybook Bible. It is the best children's Bible that either of us have ever seen. It has great illustrations (check them out by looking inside the book on amazon) and the whole thing points to Jesus (the subtitle is every story whispers His name).

Awww!

While we were in Florida, Emma started playing with her feet. She loves to have her feet up in the air and pulls at her socks.


She's also gotten a lot more comfortable on her tummy. Emma used to get tired pretty quickly when she was on her tummy, but she has gotten so strong now!

And this is quite possibly the best picture ever! She was making a happy noise - really!

Memorial Day

We had friends over for a big breakfast yesterday. Martin and I love making breakfast, so it was a really fun time, and we had tons of food! In the afternoon we traveled to Bel Air to visit with Martin's mom, aunt and uncle, and cousins for some delicious crabs and swimming in their pool. (not crabs and pool at the same time, however...)

We took Emma in the pool again too. She liked this trip better than when we were in Miami (it was really windy and a cool night then), but she still seems pretty unsure about all that water! Kenny and Ryan really enjoyed seeing her, and Kenny especially got a TON of smiles from Emma!

So, we have the world's best baby....

...Emma just fell asleep while I was practicing my drums. As in, playing a full drumset right above her room.

Yep, she's super. But we already knew that.

Miami!

Thursday morning we flew

to Miami

to see Evan and Sarah graduate!

We met Evan's parents, who flew down all the way from Alaska!

We had some very good sister time.

Yay graduate!

Emma did amazing the whole time, especially since we did a lot of traveling in the car and then sitting for two 2 hour+ graduations. Apparently Emma liked Miami. She's already cheering for the Canes it would seem.

We had a good time too. Although the backseat of our rental van was very sticky. And Martin found a chocolate covered pretzel. Nastiness.

Four generations of girls!

There was a lot of pressure change on the flight home Sunday evening. Emma was bothered by it a lot more on the way back than on the way down. She did get to sleep for a while though. She really did great.

And that was it! (Well, the extra short version.) We had such a great time, though it was far too short. Sarah and Evan get married in less than 3 months, so we will all be back together then!

Some pictures from the weekend

Michelle took this one of me and Emma on Friday:

At church on Mothers Day (this is my friend Megan and her daughter Madison. Madison was born 4 weeks after Emma):

Emma and Mommy lovin time:

We went up to Lums Pond for a picnic dinner Sunday. Emma loved it:

It was a beautiful day!




The first Mothers Day with Emma here! (we found out she was coming on Mothers Day last year!)