Back from Vacation & 5 months old!

What a trip! I've never seen so much rain thanks to the tropical storm. Emma of course didn't notice a difference and still had a good time. She is growing way too fast, but so far isn't doing too many new things too fast. She had discovered her feet and loves to hold them. She can roll to one side, but not all the way over. She's still pretty vocal and loves to watch and observe everyone, esp. her brother. She has such a good disposition and is always so cheery and happy. She is even use to her brother when he has a tantrum, if she is nearby she gets this quizzical look on her face and will look at me, like what is wrong with him mommy? The loudness of him doesn't seem to phase her unless he does it suddenly. I can't believe she is 5 months Today! She is at the stage in nursing where she is so easily distracted by anything, its quite funny at times. Sometimes when I'm nursing her I might watch a little tv or be talking to someone and then I'll look down at her and she stops nursing and gives me the biggest milky grin. So cute!

The drive home was the hardest part of the trip. The drive down we did at night, which worked out beautifully b/c they both slept most of the way down. The drive home we did during the day, Emma did fine, but Aidan got tired of being in the car very quickly. Even after we had almost been in the car for 9 hours I would look over at Emma in her seat and she would just grin at me. She was probably the only one still in a good mood by the time we got home.

I didn't take as many pictures as I normally would b/c of the weather. The only thing I really did want to get was a family picture of all four of us. Its just so hard to do for some reason. The few times we did try Aidan wanted to do something else and I didn't want to have a picture of him screaming b/c one of us was holding him or Emma wanted to eat, the timing was never right. We could have done it if the weather had held out for us. We did try inside too, but the best we got was pics of either me and Aidan, Chris and Emma or three of us never all four. Oh, well, can't do anything about it now. We'll have plenty of family shots soon I know. Lori got some cute pics (I think) on her camera of Aidan and Emma sitting beside each other, I can't wait to see those. All in all it was a good trip and so good to see everyone, hopefully we can convince Uncle Gary and Aunt Julie to come up for a visit sometime! :)

You can really see her hair in this one, its finally starting to grow a bit.This one cracks me up, she is memorized by her moving hand! It turned into a freaky picture too!

I love holding my feet!

Sitting in the bumbo seat. This is blurry b/c I turned the flash off so I could get her with her eyes open, poor thing automatically closes her eyes now when she sees the camera.

This one is blurry too, but I thought it was cute!

Emma and Uncle Gary
Emma was rocked by her Uncle Gary a lot and loved it!

Sweet Girl!

My cute chunky monkey

Emma chillin by the lake in her tankini!

Here's a video of her playing under her gym:

Here she is on her tummy:

Here is one of her kicking and swatting at the toys in her gym(I'm not sure why my camera goes out of focus while I'm filming, drives me crazy!):

On Vacation

We are getting ready to leave for our family trip to Florida! I am so excited! I will post pictures and hopefully get some video while I'm there and update when I get back. I'm not sure how the drive will go, it takes a around 8 hours to get there and we are leaving tonight after work. Evening drives usually work best for Aidan, hopefully it will be the same for Emma. Once it gets dark I'm hoping they will drift off to sleep. But, then again 8 hours is still a long time in the car whether you're sleeping or not! ugh!

If you are wondering where we go in Florida...its to Chris's Aunt and Uncle's house on Kingsley Lake, right outside of Jacksonville. We go every year and stay for a week, we hardly ever leave the house, which is the way I like it. Its so relaxing! It will be great to catch up with everyone and it will be the first time the Fl relatives have seen Emma. I can't wait for them to meet her in person! I'll post some pics when I can!

Sweet Emma

Emma is such a good baby, so happy and chatty! She's changing everyday and is really trying to roll over but has only gotten from her back to her side and she loves playing with her feet. She's become very observant and loves to watch her brother playing and talking. When I go to get her out of her crib in the mornings she always has the biggest grin on her face. Here is a picture I took of her yesterday, she loves laying on the changing table and esp. loves getting her diaper changed. I didn't realize until after I took the pic that she was still commando, whoops. Let's hope she doesn't continue this trend in adulthood (pullin a britney!) ha! ha!


Here is a video I took of her yesterday at her Gramma's house when I went to pick her up from work.