January 7, 2007

On a warm, Sunday afternoon in a graveyard in Chestertown...

some jewelry was exchanged :-)

"I Want Tea"

We were having our morning snack today and Emma said something to me. I didn't quite catch it; she repeated the same phrase. The third time it made sense. "I want tea."

I stared at her and she grinned. I asked her if she said she wanted tea and she flashed her smile again. "Emma say 'I want tea, please.' "

"Please."

It wasn't her first sentence, but it was the first that was such an unprompted direct expression of a specific desire. So I made tea and took some pictures. Nothing quite goes with tea out of a china teacup like goldfish.





Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We have been SO busy the last 2 weeks! It has been fun, but it was also nice to get back to our normal routine today. Here are just a few pictures from what we have been doing!

Emma loved playing with some special Christmas stickers

And we made a bunch of Christmas cookies. Emma loved to watch, and also got to help. She did a great job unwrapping all of the Hershey's kisses for our Peanut Blossoms!

Will is an adorable little boy, and is full of smiles for us all the time now! 

Emma had a blast unwrapping presents (I think we opened 7 different times!). This expression is for her own stick of chapstick, which is her reward for using the potty.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm

Our Christmas morning at home together!

Emma loves snow this year! She was so scared last year, but loves her new snow boots and walking through the snow. 

Martin and I got to go out for dinner New Years Eve with Karene and Jeremy while the grandparents babysat for the 3 kiddos. We had a special dinner in downtown Baltimore and brought home cheesecake from Cheesecake factory so that we could watch the fireworks on TV instead of staying out! Joshua and Will posed for us before we headed out:

Making cookies with friends

Emma has really enjoyed making Christmas cookies! Monday we decorated gingerbread cookies with the Goodsells. Emma and Madison were a little liberal with the amount of sprinkles they added to several cookies, but all the kids had such a good time.

What fun!

Take a look at the number of chocolate sprinkles on that one poor cookie...Megan and I did quite a bit of spreading decorations out!

We had a really fun time and are looking forward to doing it again sometime!

Christmas photo shoot

Emma loves to get her picture taken so much, that we have impromptu photo shoots often, sometimes multiple times a day. Yesterday I pulled her hair all back together to see what it would look like and it turned out gorgeous!

Striking a pose:

Our favorite! This couldn't have turned out better if I had posed her...she just loves sitting and looking at the tree!

And of course Will got in on the action

So sweet!

2 month update

Its hard to believe that Will is already 2 months old! Will went for his 2 month well visit yesterday and weighed in at 11 pounds, 9 ounces and 22 inches long! He's just below the 50th percentile for both height and weight, and the doctor said that he is very strong -- Will even showed off by rolling over for her!

It took Will a while to start smiling, but we enjoy his sweet smile all day long. His big sister loves to get him to smile!

Love that face!

And this one too!

Happy 2 months Will!

Christmas Tree, Part 2

Emma loves our Christmas tree! She calls out 'tree!' when she is coming down the steps in the morning and spots it. She helped with some of the decorating, but was actually content to watch and hand ornaments to us. We took some pictures of her putting up her gaggle of "Baby's First Christmas" ornaments that she received last year!

with Daddy:

with Mommy:

Emma also loves to play with the figures in our Nativity. We're so glad they are made of plastic and she is able to enjoy them!

She especially enjoys putting baby Jesus in his bed!

And Emma is being Mommy's helper putting gifts under the tree!