My 3 Babies!!!

Emma has some crazy hair when she wakes up from a nap.  I almost always have to fix her hair when she wakes up.  This is her crazy bed head.
  Emma loves to watch the washer/dryer

 

when its going.  I try to gather all of her minky dot blankets that she is attached to and wash them and this day she climbed into the basket and snuggled with her fresh and clean blankets.  Look how long her hair has gotten!  I have to keep it pulled back at all times so the poor baby can see.  I just loved seeing Kennedy, in her play heals, and her baby sister walking hand and hand.  She loves her baby sister so much and she is truly an amazing big sister and helper.(the thing wrapped around her bottom is a snake that they think is fun to wear like a diaper) Grayson has been piling toys in his bed at night and playing till he goes to sleep.  Of course mom has to clean it when he goes to sleep. Kennedy asks on a daily basis if we can have a friend over and it drives me nuts mainly because they tend to make poor choices when they have friends over and this time was no different.  These guys found the Flinstone gummy vitamins and consumed about 90 between the 4 of them.  Poison control said they would be fine, maybe a tummy ache but that was it.  Kennedy and Grayson lost snacks for 3 days since they ate vitamins like they were fruit snacks.  It was extremely hard for them because they LOVE snacks!   Clay and I have started doing 30 day shred by Jillian Michaels and the kids decided they wanted to do it too and since Emma was still up I had to tend to her.  It is an intense 20 minute workout but I’m excited to hopefully see some results.

Clay walked in the girls room a couple of nights ago and saw this!!!  Such a sweet moment!  Emma adores Kennedy and I could say that she loves Kennedy second to me!  She gets so excited to see her when she gets off the bus in the afternoon.  Kennedy is so helpful with Emma too.  Emma typically cries a little at night when we first lay her down and Kennedy decided that crawling into bed with Emma and singing to her kept her from crying.  I told Kennedy that if she did this every night that Emma will start depending on her to do it all the time so if she wasn’t prepared for that she didn’t need to do it all the time!  It was such a sweet moment for my little girls!  I hope that they stay close and can depend on each other always. 
 Sundays are our “Family” nights.  Its the day we go to church and come home and rest and then have a spiritual lesson and play a fun game.  Our church has always set aside one day during the busy week to have “Family Home Evening”.  It seems that sometimes the “Family” is put on the back burner and I always want to keep my family first.  The family is the most important thing in our Heavenly Fathers Plan.  I love that our kids notice when we miss reading our scriptures at night or saying family prayer.  Grayson is always the one that reminds us to always bless the food before we eat.  I love my family and I am thankful everyday that my Heavenly Father has entrusted Clay and I to care for his children which are our children also.

Bubbles, Basketball game,Surgery and Valentines Day!

I think this is one of the first times Emma has seen bubbles!  I know, shame on me!  She seemed to be a little scared of them at first but then loved them.
 These 2 love bubbles too.  Thursday’s are bubble bath days in mom’s jet tub.  They do pretty good but I still have to make sure we don’t have water and bubbles all over the floor as they tend to get a little crazy!!  Once a week bubble baths also helps clean out the jets in the tub because I don’t really use them.
 My friend Rachel had this adorable little owl shirt made for Emma and gave it to her for her birthday!  We got it a little big so she could wear it this summer too! Also our friend Rachel gave us their tickets to the Alabama vs. LSU basketball game!  The kids had a blast.  It was a really fun family activity.   Emma loves being on daddy’s shoulders and I love this goofy little grin she has going on!  The kids really behaved themselves and cheered on Alabama, which paid off cause we won!
 
My little man Grayson had his tonsils and adenoids taken out this past Monday!  He was so brave! 
    These pictures are before his surgery, he found some silly Halloween teeth in the stroller and was being silly with them!







I don’t know what anesthesia does to kids but they wake up from that stuff so angry and feisty.  He was very mad that the iv was in his arm and tried very hard to get it off.  It broke my heart to see him so upset and crying and then trying to wrestle with him trying to keep him from pulling the iv out was quite the challenge.  He is 42lbs and is very strong.
 
I know these are kind of gross but it is something that you might see in a biology book and the ENT gave me the picture which i didn’t request.  So this is tonsils and adenoids.




Poor baby, he got sick 2 times after surgery and wasn’t in the mood for pictures.  He slept till 3pm then he was pretty much normal the rest of the week.  I gave him his pain medicine every 4 hrs the first day and then he didn’t have any until Thursday night, he woke up crying saying his throat hurt. 

He is one brave little boy!  He has been bouncing off the walls and has done well with eating soft foods…for the most part.  We have let him have a few questionable things but all is well. 
He should be good and well to go back to school next week.  He is a trooper!

And last but not least…Happy Valentines Day!  We had a busy week so valentines day was a blur.  I was in charge of cupcakes for Kennedy’s school party so Grayson, Emma, and I headed up to the school and enjoyed the party.  Clay had to work but we met up with him and ate lunch then we ended the day with the kids getting to pick out something special at Target for valentines day b/c mom just didn’t get around to it this yr.  This has been our busy week.  I hope you enjoy!

Emma’s First Birthday Party

We celebrated Emma’s First Birthday on Tues, the 30th.  We went out to Olive Garden to eat dinner.  She had her first swig of Chocolate Milk and absolutely loved it! She loves playing in the tent that the kids got for Christmas, she goes in one hole and out the other.  And she loves for you to chase her. We drove to MS on Thurs late afternoon so I would have enough time on Friday TO GET ALL THE STUFF BOUGHT AND READY FOR HER BIRTHDAY ON SATURDAY. i MADE THE ICING BEFORE WE LEFT SO THAT WOULD BE ONE THING OFF MY CHECK LIST wE HAD HAM/CHEESE AND TURKEY/CHEESE SANDWICHES, CHIPS AND DIP, goldfish, cookies, animal cookies, FRUIT AND CUPCAKES AND ICECREAM. This is really the first time I have really went crazy decorating.  I guess I have to blame that on getting a silhouette for Christmas Emma’s birth to 1yr picture board. Fun with vinyl.She had fun tearing that cupcake to pieces.  She would grab a handful and just throw it on the floor, she only ate a little bit of it. 
She got 3 baby dolls, several outfits, money, and a puzzle.  We really enjoyed being with all of our family on this special occasion. 
Happy birthday baby girl!