Being Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:06:00 +0000

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. Kory had a bunch of family come into town. So it was really nice to spend the whole week with them.

Here's a picture of little Owen. He is 8 months old and such a sweetheart. The kid sleeps more than any kid I've ever seen!!!

Here is a picture of Zander - I LOVE his cow hat. It even has a little tail :) LOL! Baby Z is now 5 months old and such a snuggler.

I love this picture of Grandpa Randy and Emme at the park.

The last night with Kory's dad we went out to pizza at JB's Italian Grill. It's one of our absolute favorites. Here's a really nice family picture of all of us:

After spending time with Kory's dad and his wife - we then went to Grandma Bonnie and Grandpa Tom's for the rest of the week. Kalli and Mark were also home with their 4 boys.

Here is AJ playing puzzles with Emily. AJ is 8 and is such a good cousin. He loved playing with Emily as did all the boys. Emme is very lucky to be surrounded by such wonderful cousins. Even if she is the only girl of the bunch!!

Here's a cute pic of Zander, Owen, and Emily. They actually sat for longer than expected....maybe it was because we crammed all 3 of them into 1 chair!!! It's kind of funny that the 5 month old and 8 month old are almost as big as my almost 2 year old!!!!

We were cleaning out Grandma Bonnie's basement and found this old Bob the Builder from Reese (Kalli's littlest). Emily LOVED playing with him and we was just her size...literally!!!! She kept saying "Bob Bob Bob Bob". She still asks for Bob now!!!

I really like this family picture of us:

This is the whole crew at Grandma Bonnie's. We were so happy that Grandma and Grandpa Miiller were able to join us this year.

Here is a picture of Emily in a bouncer from 1977....yep - this was also a "treasure" we found in Bonnie's basement. It worked perfectly and of course Emily had to try it out. She loved it!!!

We got to spend Thanksgiving with my family on Saturday. Casey and Mike hosted it at their house. Thanks guys!!! We had a blast and the food was fantastic. Here is a pic of Emme with Grammy and Grampa Walker.

I caught Grandma Miiller singing one of his famous songs to the 3 youngest grandkids. It is so stinkin cute!!!

Emme's New Toy

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:36:00 +0000

Emily got an early birthday present from mommy and daddy. A Dora car!!! She loves it. We wanted her to try it out before winter arrived. She loves riding it and is getting pretty good at it too! She hasn't quite figured out how to steer so you have to watch her really close! LOL!

Our Sick Girl

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:58:00 +0000

So....do you think we've been taking Emily's temperature too often?

Here's my sick little girl all snuggled up with her blankies and babies..and yes...her daddy is letting her play with a hispanic dolly :)

Emily Discovers the Mirror - Toddler Age!

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:10:00 +0000

Emily discovered a mirror as an infant, of course, like all other infants. Funny thing is that she still can't figure it out. She put her 2 chairs up against our mirror and sat Doah (a.k.a. Dora) down next to her and set out to enter the world of mirror land....

Halloween - 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:16:00 +0000

Sorry it's taken me so long to get some Halloween pics up.

Here's a pic of Kory and I from the Mounds party. Matt Reel is the GM at the Mounds Country Club in Fort Atkinson, so that's where we went. We had a little too much fun....

Kory is just a guy in a powder blue leisure suit and I was Madonna.

Here's Matt's niece Melissa and her hubby Brett. They were a riot!

Here's Howie and one of the ladies...I mean Matt and Brenda :)

And the costume contest winners - Ellie and Tim Reel

Here is Kory with "The Walkers" - it was some old couple that lived next to Kory until he was like 7. I met them...I'm sure they thought we were quite the piece of work! ha ha

We had a great time. Thanks to Grammy for babysitting for us!

Happy Halloween - 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:39:00 +0000

We've had a great Halloween! It was much more fun this year having Emily old enough to dress up and say trick or treat :)

Here she is - our little Rockstar!

She's checking out her own outfit! Check out those boots!!

Here we are at the neighbors.

Yum...chocolate from Barb!

Love this pic of Auntie Cece, Emme and Grammy. Such a cutie pie!

We went to Prairie Athletic Club in Sun Prairie for games and fun!

Here is Em picking a pumpkin so she can win a prize.

Here's Grammy helping Em draw the face on her ghost sucker.

It's pin the nose on pumpkin!!

All of us! Had a blast!!

We ran into Chris, our daycare provider - and here is Emme with Caed.

Will post another blog with Mommy and Daddy's costumes and fun party at the Mounds!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

October 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:39:00 +0000

It's been a busy month so far and we still have over a week to go! Thought I'd post as we've been busy the last week or two.

Here is Emily painting her first pumpkin. She did an awesome job! It's sitting out on the front porch now.

Here she is all ready to go play outside. What a cutie pie!

This is my new favorite picture. She is such an angel.

This is the best one we could get of her newly pierced ears...yep....I got her ears pierced. LOVE THEM! She calls them her "prettys". She has square (fake) diamonds - they are georgous!

Here is Emily in her jammies with her new princess sparkly shoes....do you think we have a girly girl on our hands or what? I literally had to take those shoes and hide them so she would go to bed that night!!!

Here's Emily today in her cute overalls. She was wearing her headband like that all day. What a silly girl! (note the sparkly pink shoes again! ha ha)

It's hard to believe Emily will be 22 months in just a few days. She is learning and growing each and every day. She is still a little peanut, but is as fiesty as ever! She has her dad's lack of patience and her mom's stubborness - so she's quite the combination of the two of us! She talks non-stop. You can now understand a lot more of her words. She always has a lot to say - gee - I wonder where she gets that from :) She also LOVES being the center of attention and is always up for putting on a show for everyone - gee - I wonder where she gets that from - AUNT KACEY!!! :)

We are looking forward to dressing her up for Halloween this year, so we'll be sure to post pictures of our little rock star!

Our Sweet Little Angel...

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:56:00 +0000

Has turned into a terror!!! :)
If you don't speak "Emily"...I will translate for you... "BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE"!!!!!

Pumpkin Patch

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:17:00 +0000

We went to Schusters in Deerfield today and had a great time. It was absolutely freezing, so we only lasted about 2 hours, but still had a great time.

Here's Emme and Daddy all bundled up:

(if you look really close in this one you can see Emily has one blue sock and one pink sock - no, I'm not color blind - I just have learned to pick my battles and sock color is not one of them! The joy of raising a very stubborn little girl!)

Here Em is picking out her pumpkin:

Here is Auntie CeCe and Uncle Mike:

Here's Mike trying to get Em to feed the goats...she didn't want to get very close:

Mommy and Emme...BURR!!!

My friend Megan came with her daughter Maddy and here's Kory, Em and Maddie riding the "tractor":

Had to post this picture from yesterday of Em. I was busy cleaning the house and decide to let her "help". First I let her clean the floor length mirror and sliding door with windex. She brought her little stool over and did such a good job. Then I was mopping and she wanted to help, so I gave her my dry swiffer and she literally swiffered the floor for an hour. It was hysterical. I am hoping she has Grandma Bonnie's cleaning genes!!! I HATE cleaning!

Walk for Hope

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:42:00 +0000

On Sunday, we walked in the Walk for Hope to find a cure for Breast Cancer. It was an emotional day as one of my mom's clients died on Monday after a 12 year battle with breast cancer. My mom was there for the 12 years of fighting, of shaving her head, and giving her hugs when she needed them the most. What an amazing fighter she was.

Here are some pics from our walk. It was a little chilly down in Chicago (it was actually in Glenview, IL), but we bundled up and had a great walk.

Mom and Emme:

Here is Emme in her shirt that Grammy got her - it says "Find a Cure Before I Grow Boobs", she got so many compliments on it. What a cutie pie!

Here is the whole group. It was Christine & Katie on the far left, then my mom, Me & Emme, Mary Hornish, Casey and Lori.

Thanks to all who donated. My mom's shop Lasting Impression raised $600 towards the cause! Nice job ladies!!

Did Kacey Really Turn 30???

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:53:00 +0000

She sure did!!! We had a SURPRISE weekend planned for her! I can't believe we actually pulled it off without her knowing. She knew we were going somewhere - but had no idea where. She was determined we were going to the Dells - until we got on the Beltline and headed south. Then she was sooo confused. She started out saying Platteville? Dubuque? The farm? ha ha We had her fooled!!!

We arrived in Galena at the Galena Cellars Winery for our first stop of the day.

Amy put together a box for her that explained her entire day. It was fun to watch her open it and she was so happy about what we had planned:

Here's Kacey showing off her "30" glass that Amy got for her:

Here is a picture of the girls tasting their wines - we got to pick 6 each:

Mother/Daughter - in their matching jean jackets :)

After the Winery - we went to Wild Clover Spa and enjoyed a treatment of our choice! It was fantastic and very relaxing.

Here is Liz, Alli and Julie getting their pedicures:

After the Winery and Spa - we went to Amy's grandparents house in the Territories - talk about amazing!!! It was so beautiful out in the woods and up on these giant hills. You could see for miles. We all sat around, relaxed and played some games. Then we all pitched in and made a yummy taco dinner.

Here's a picture out the windows of the home:

After dinner - we all decided to go out on the town!! Here's Amy, Kacey and Me all ready to go. Kacey has a "Birthday Bitch" tiarra on that everyone thought was a bachelorette! Too funny!! She'd be like "No - read it, I'm the Bitch" ha ha

Here we are before the girls got wild and crazy! Liz, Julie, Lila and Kacey:

Some guy somehow convinced Kacey and Amy to go sing - they were "trying" to sing 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'...woah...there are a lot of words to that song!!!

Then the girls put their dancing shoes on!!!

Bonnie seemed to get all the attention from the men!!!

Love this pic of Lila and Kacey! You girls are a riot!!!

We had such a fun time. Thanks to everyone who came and who helped put the party on. We FINALLY surprised Kacey!!!! Thanks also to Amy and her grandparents for letting us stay in their georgous home - it was amazing!!!

It's been a busy few weeks around our house. It's started cooling off here too - so we're enjoying the fall weather.

Here are 2 recent pics of Miss Em:

What's Emme up to now?

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:51:00 +0000

Well September has been a fun month so far. The weather has been georgous! I love this time of year in Wisconsin. Over labor day weekend, we went up to Hayward and spend a long weekend with my parents and Casey & Mike. It was fun. The boys got a lot of atv-ing in minus a few atv issues! ha ha I won't go into those :) The rest of us hung out, drank beer, shot guns...oops...did I say shot guns???

It was so much fun! The boys were teaching the girls how to shoot - for those of you concerned - Emme was napping and we were only shooting at a beer can and then a cardboard face that Mike made.

I am not so sure how to caption this picture, but I thought it was hysterical. It's a plastic flower holder...Emme decided it also made a nice hat :)

We also went on a boat ride for the last time of the season. Grammy even let Em drive! She loved it.

Since we got back from Hayward, we've just been busy around the house. Nothing too exciting. Emily is talking more and more. It's pretty amazing how every day she learns new words. We are working on saying 2 word sentences now. She hasn't quite got it down yet - other than "See Ya" - she says that all the time!!

Yesterday we went to Lake Geneva and met some friends at a park. It was really nice to see some of my High School friends and all their kiddos. It was a georgous day too! Emme had fun playing. When we got home yesterday, Em took a nap and then we were playing outside when she suddenly wasn't feeling well. She ended up throwing up out on the lawn. Poor little girl. In the middle of her puking session, the neighbors dog came over and ended up getting a shower of vomit!! Nasty! She threw up another 4 times last night - but woke up this morning seeming ok. She seems a little run down and more tired than usual, but other than that she seems fine. We've been taking it easy all day hoping she continues to feel well. One thing that was kind of funny out of all of this - was that she would take a drink of water out of a sippy cup and then about 15 - 20 min later she would throw up. So then she would make us go get her another cup. We went through about 5 cups last night. So this morning she woke up and was at it again....good thing we have a lot of sippys!!! She is too funny....like it's the cup that was making her sick!

Here is Emme at the park yesterday:

Here is Emme playing at the park with my friend Katie's son, Nolan. They are only 3 days apart in age:

Here are the two newest babies. Kyla is my friend Jen's daughter (the baby on the left), Morgan is my friend Allison's daughter (the baby on the right). Kyla is 5 months old and Morgan is 2 months old.

Here is Mason and Alina. Mason is Morgan's big brother and Alina is Kyla's big sister:

Here is the group hanging out. We had a blast! I hope we can do it again soon sometime.

Had to get a good belly shot of Katie. She is pregnant with twin girls!!! She's 23 weeks along. Can't wait to meet the two new little cuties! We brought her all of Em's baby clothes. Only 5 boxes of clothes -- and that's just up through 6 months!!

That's it so far. Been a good month. Looking forward to the next few weeks too. Gotta enjoy this weather before the snow comes!!!

Here is a video that I promised Auntie Kristen. It's Emme early one morning yelling for Otis. It's sooo cute!!!

August 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:16:00 +0000

I've posted a lot of pics this month already, but here's the entire link if you want to see them all:

http://photos1.walmart.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=1324763003/a=3242809_3242809/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/

Sorry there are a lot - but it's been a busy month! We've gotten to do a lot of really fun things this month. I am looking forward to things slowing down here sometime soon!!! We had Emily into the Dr last week because her eye swelled up again like it did in July. We're still not sure what is causing it. The Dr thought it might be a stye, but I think it was too far from her eyelid to be one. So who knows. We just used benadryl and it cleared up in about 4 days. It's frustrating to not know what is causing it. Hopefully we will figure it out soon!!

Em is 20 months old now!! She is still a little peanut though. She is growing, but slowly! I think she's about 23lbs now and she's wearing 18 month clothes still. Seems like she's been in them forever. She also has the smallest feet ever, she is barely in size 5. Some of her 5's fit and some are too big. Crazy!!!

She is talking up a storm!!! I bet she has 25 - 50 words now. She is doing so well with her words. We are working on counting 1 - 2 - 3. She says "2 - 2 - 2". ha ha Guess we'll be ready when December rolls around to ask her how old she is!!! Speaking of being almost 2 - she has quite the temper tantrums in her. Hard to believe such a sweet little angel can turn into such an evil child!!! She likes to get her way and if she doesn't she clearly lets you know about it. We have started timeouts at home and they seem to work. Ignoring her also works :) It's the public tantrums that aren't quite as easy to manage!!

I just signed her up for music class again at Prairie Music Academy. We did two sessions last winter & spring and she just loved it. Every night she asks me to sing to her...I am awful, but she loves it. So I wanted to get her back into music. Maybe she'll take after her daddy and be a music genius!!!! We start mid-september on every Tuesday night for 10 weeks. Yay!

Last weekend Kory had the truck home, so we got some cute pics of Emme playing around in it:

Our Dancing Queen

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:58:00 +0000

I'll let the video speak for itself...

Haven't blogged in forever!!

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:22:00 +0000

Sorry we haven't done a blog in so long. It's been such a busy summer. So below is a photo blog of the last few weeks.

Here's baby Zander around his baptism (about 8 weeks old):

Here's a really cute picture of Kalli and Kacey at Zander's baptism. It was a georgous day!

Tony built Zander a sandbox before he was even born!! Here is Emily testing it out with Daddy:

We officially gave up the nuk. Hard to believe she ever even took one! We went cold turkey which everyone told me not to do - but it worked for us. She was 19 months old and we just took them away - we didn't do any special "talks" or anything. We just told her she was a big girl and didn't need them anymore. It took about 3 days before she stopped asking for them.

We went to the Waupon truck show. Emily loved all the trucks. Here she is riding on the cooler with Daddy:

My sister Casey has started her own business, called the Purse Parties. So if you want a new purse - let me know! I know who to contact!!! Below is a picture of my first purse party - it was more like a daycare! The girls all had a blast though!

We did some finger painting a few weeks ago. Here is what Emily looks like after we're done painting! Seems like she gets more of it on her face than on her paper!!!

Andrea and I took Emily and Tyler to the Middleton Splash Pad a few weeks ago. It took both of them a while to warm up to it - but by the end they absolutely loved it. I am hoping to go again this weekend if the weather warms up a little!

I met Alison (with her 2 kids Morgan and Luke) up in Winona for a little reunion. We went this past weekend. We had so much fun looking around and seeing all the buildings and how different everything looks. It's so beautiful. We had a really nice time and I'm so glad we found time to get up there together.

Here's a pic of baby Luke at the pool. He's so stinkin' cute!!! and such a good boy too :)

As you can see - we've been going NON-STOP all summer. It's been fun, but hoping things slow down sometime soon.

Photo Montage

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:33:00 +0000

I'm not sure why I'm posting other than the fact that I got a few cute new pics of Emme that I just had to share. She's so cute. Quite the handful lately, but she's as cute as ever and has the sweetest little personality. She loves to give kisses and noonie's. Do you know what a noonie is? It's where you rub noses together and say "noonie, noonie, noonie". It's sooooo cute :)

Here she is with her baby and baby doll stroller. She loves her baby.

Here is a picture from before we went to the pool on Sunday. Had to show you how she has a big girl pony tail!!! I can't believe how long and thick her hair is getting!!

Here is Emily and I at the pool. Check out that tooth-gap....There's room in there for plenty more teeth!!!!

We went to visit Sarah and her girls (Addison 2, and Alivia 2 months) yesterday. It was soooo cute to see Emme and Addy playing together. We heard a lot of "Mine"!! It was cute though.

Here's the group from Sarah's yesterday. Sarah with Addy on her lap, Tina holding new baby Livy, Me and Em and Heather. We had so much fun!!!

This last one is a picture of Emme in her new purple hat. She LOVES it! I had some coupons for the Carter's and Osh Kosh Outlets and bought Em a bunch of new winter clothes. I had to get this hat!!!

That's all for now!!!

Busy, Busy, Busy...

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:27:00 +0000

I can not believe it's the end of July already. Emily is now 19 months old. She is such a good little girl. She has a little attitude if she doesn't get what she wants, but don't all women?
She is saying a lot of words - some that we understand, but most that we don't. I think we can understand about 15 - 20 words, which I think is good for her age. She is not saying any 2 word sentences yet (unless "Mom Nah" counts!!).

We've had a busy month of July starting off with going to Hayward with my family for our annual trip. Kory and I had our birthdays - didn't do too much, just went to Buckhorn with his family.

We went to the Dane County Fair a few weeks ago. I got up early one Sunday morning and took Emily myself. We got there about 9am and am pretty sure we were the only ones there...the roosters were still cock-a-doodle-do-ing.... :) We had soooo much fun walking around and seeing all the animals. Emily loved the baby goats running around and even got to pet a cow. She's a brave little girl. About 10:30 Daddy called to see how it was going and I convinced him to come down. We had such a nice family day. Ended up eating way too much fair food, but had a great time.

Here is Emily telling me very clearly that she needs her "Nah" - a.k.a. pacifire. The hand pointing goes along with yelling the word Nah quite loudly. We are working right now on getting rid of the Nah. We are on night #2. It's going okay. Yesterday went a lot smoother than tonight. Tonight was rough...but she is asleep. Yay.

Here is Emily with her princess crown and sparkly shawl...actually it's a flashing party girl tiarra and some red garland!! But she has good imagination :)

We had a good friend's wedding last weekend. It was in downtown Madison and was absolutely georgous. We do have kind of a funny story behind this though...Kacey is looking at this picture wondering why I am wearing my fabulous dress we bought shopping on Saturday - but Kory...hmmmm...he's not wearing the cute shirt we picked out for him. Ok - so I bought him a dress shirt in size Medium...I thought it would fit...well....we got down to the hotel and were getting dressed when Kory puts the shirt on and was like...um...this doesn't fit. I'm like WHAT??? Oh no. So yep...it was 3:30, we had to be at the church by 4--so we went running down state street trying to find a men's shop. Somehow we ended up Lands End..so that's the shirt we came up with...hey - it worked!!! It's funny now, but at the time it was not so funny. He was not very happy with me buying him a Medium.

Here's a pic of Beth, Sarah (the bride) and me. We had such a nice time!!

And Beth and I had matching colors on that day!! Good choice Beth!

Not too much else exciting going on. Been playing with Zander as much as possible, trying to see him at least once a week. Hard to believe my little nephew is over a month old already. He's as cute as ever and did very good shopping on Saturday! He's going to be such a good little boy.

This weekend we are heading up to the Trab, so I will hopefully have some pictures to post next week.

New Toy

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:16:00 +0000

Kory bought me a new ATV yesterday - he found it on Craigslist in Milwaukee. I love it!!!

It's pretty blue. I don't know much about the specs, but it's a 500 Polaris Sportsman. It has lots of extras though and I can't wait to ride it this weekend on the trails!!

18 Month Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:16:00 +0000

We got Emily's pictures taken on Saturday, June 26th for her 18 month photos. They were taken by Krista at http://www.kristaroderphotography.com/ She does a great job and has taken all of Emme's professional photos. She is HIGHLY recommended from the Marion's.

Emme wasn't feeling all that well, but Krista managed to capture her personality - like always! You can see Emme's swollen hand in a few of the photos. We took her to urgent care right after the photo session - priorities, right? ha ha Krista had to do a little photoshop work on Em's eye which was also starting to swell and the lovely scars on her nose from her date with the concrete. Thanks Krista!

Here is the full link to the photos-you can order them right from here:
http://photos1.walmart.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=715749003/a=3242809_3242809/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/

Here are a few of my favorites:

Our Trip to Hayward 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:41:00 +0000

As most of you know, we go to Hayward every year with the whole family. This year was the first year with all 3 grandkids. Mikaiya is 3, Emily is 18 months and Braenna is 1...so as you can imagine it was quite the experience!!! The first half of the trip involved cold and rainy weather - so it got a little chaotic. Eventually we would take the kids outside into the garage and just bundle them up. Let them burn off some energy.

Then that would get chaotic. So we'd haul them all back inside!! ha ha

Grammy was in charge of bath's each night...better her than us!!!! It was a nice break to not have to do baths and it was so fun to watch her keep each child happy! ha ha

Finally after a few days the sun came out, so the little ones got on their bathing suits and went down to the lake!!!

Throughout the week we tried...very hard to get a nice picture of all 3 girls. It never worked...here's the best we got:

Here is Uncle Mike showing Emme how to drink a REAL beer:

My little angel...all grown up!!!!

We all had a great time...just hoping next year is a little more relaxing and a little less chasing munchkins around!!!!!

Here is the photo link to all of my pics from the week:
http://photos1.walmart.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=662654003/a=3242809_3242809/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/

What do an 18 Month Photo Shoot & A Visit to Urgent Care have in Common?

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:15:00 +0000

Emily!!!!!

The day before we left for vacation we had Emme's 18 month photo shoot with Krista at www.kristaroderphotography.com (PLUG PLUG PLUG!!! She's the best!) if you want a sneak peek of Emily's photos - go to Krista's blog at http://kristaroderphotography.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/emily/

She did such a fabulous job - as always. We should get the full CD by the weekend and I will upload them for everyone to see.

Now-you're probably wondering where urgent care comes in, right? Well earlier in the week Emme got a bug bite on her hand at daycare. Her hand was swollen and red, but the Dr didn't think too much of it at her 18 month check-up. She woke up Saturday morning with her hand about 3x the normal size and it was really warm to the touch. She also had a small red spot under her eye. We had her pictures at 9am, so took her to those. As Krista was taking pictures we were watching the red spot on her eye grow...seriously - within an hour it had gotten much bigger. I was like OK...Time for URGENT CARE!!!

At urgent care, they weren't worried about her eye - but thought that her hand was infected, so they gave us amoxicillin. She started on the antibiotic on Sat night while I went to my friend's bachelorette party. During the evening, I get a text from Kory that has a picture and says "Hi Mommy"

Yep...that was my baby girl about 1o hours after starting the antibiotics. I freaked!!! We decided at that point to put her on benadryl even though the Dr said not to. By morning it was a little less swollen and I got to finally see my baby. I was soooo worried!

We left for Hayward on Sunday and by Monday both her eye and her hand were much better. We still don't know what caused it. It seems to be some sort of allergy to bug bites. So we are watching her very closely to see if we can pinpoint the issue. Not fun!

18 Months...already!

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:47:00 +0000

The month of June has just flown by - I can't believe it's almost the 4th of July already!!! We've had a busy few weeks, but are really enjoying the sunshine and getting to play outside. Emme has a love of the slide- you know she wants to go outside when she's looking out the window - pointing - and saying - "Bweeeee" :) It's sooo cute!

She also love her animal sounds - we are trying to get them on video. So far she knows what a cow says, a dog, a cat, a duck and daddy!!! It's pretty darn funny.

She's been using her signs a lot too - mostly milk, more and please. It's fun to be able to understand her more and more each day.

She says book, car, truck, dog, ball, outside, balloon and a few others.

Em had her 18 month check up today and all is well!! Her head is finally shrinking. Dr Z looked at her growth curve and said--okay---seriously--I've never seen a kid's head get smaller :) But Em's did! ha ha She needed it!!!!!

Her height is 32.25" (69th percentile) - she grew over 2 inches 3 months!!!!

Her weight is 22lbs 8oz (28th percentile)

Her head circumference is 47cm (64th percentile)

--now her weight might be a little deceiving as he had a fill in nurse and she didn't know she was supposed to weight the kids naked. So Emme had a full wet diaper, clothes and shoes on!!!! We're guessing she's just under 22 lbs. He didn't feel it necessary to weigh her again. That still means she would have gained about a pound from her 15 month check up - which is great news! We've been stuffing her full of food!!!!

We leave for our yearly trip up north on Sunday - looking forward to spending a week with my family. Very excited for our first time with all the girls - Mikaiya who is 3, Emily who is 18 months and Braenna who is 1....should be quite entertaining!!! We might need a vacation after our vacation :)

Today was a fabulous day! We got to spend it at Aunt Kacey's with Emme's two newest cousins. She loves playing with Zander and Owen. You have to watch her like a hawk though because she doesn't understand the concept of being "gentle". She actually was trying to sit on Owen today!!!! She also likes to help, so she'll take a toy and wiggle it....okay...she shakes it like it's going to fall apart in front of the baby's faces. It's too cute. She's trying though!!! She'll make a good big cousin someday! I told Kacey and Kristen - before they know it - Zander and Owen will be running circles around Miss Em...she is the princess you know :) Grandma Bonnie has a sign in her house that 7 boys, 1 Emily. It's soooo cute!!!

Here is our June photo link: http://photos1.walmart.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=533895003/a=3242809_3242809/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/

Zander Luke Vosberg

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:37:00 +0000

Our new nephew has arrived!!!

Zander Luke Vosberg arrived on June 20th at 7:17am.
He was 7lbs 13oz and 21in long.

Kacey and Zander are doing great! Happy Father's Day Tony!

Here are some new pictures:

Owies are healing...

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:59:00 +0000

Well Emme's owie's appear to be healing. They are looking uglier and uglier!!!

Here Em is eating her favorite food ever...PICKLES!!!!

Here she is all ready for bed:

Here's a close up of her nose.

Get better soon sweetie pie!

First Scrapes

noreply@blogger.com (Teresa and Kory) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:48:00 +0000

Is there any worse sound than hearing your child's head hitting the concrete? Em fell off the deck stair and hit her face on the concrete. She scraped up her nose and forehead. After only a minute, she stopped crying and went with Barb (our neighbor) to look at the talking birds. The scrapes and bumps don't seem to bother her.