Emmit is 1! Emmit is the sweetest little boy - full of hugs and kisses and smiles and laughs. He is seriously the most photogenic kid (see below) and such a little ham for the camera. One year can seem like a really long time, but when it's the first year, it's crazy how fast it goes.
At one, Emmit is a walking machine. Of course, he has his share of falls, but for the most part he's all over the place now on his own two feet. He loves climbing up stairs and onto things. He'll climb up on the step stools in the bathrooms, stand right up, and peek over the counter to look at himself in the mirror. He LOVES to throw things - anything. Balls, food, cups, forks, anything he's holding. He's a little difficult to take shopping right now, because his favorite thing to do is pull stuff out of the cart and throw it on the ground. Over the last 2 weeks Emmit has gotten his first boy toys, and he loves them! It was baby stuff for a long time, and then he was just playing with Ellie's things (which he really didn't mind either). His new Caterpillar dumptruck and tool kit are sure fun now though! =)
Emmit is a really good eater; he pretty much eats everything we do. He suddenly isn't liking green beans anymore, but other than that, he shovels food in like a champ! He's started drinking a little milk too, but isn't quite sure what to think of it yet. His favorite foods are definitely banana, any sort of pasta and meat/tomato sauce, grapes, jello, and pancakes. He'll eat as many pancakes for breakfast as Colin or I sometimes!
Emmit likes music and dancing. He'll bounce up and down or bob his head; he likes to dance! He's also really liking his ability to face forward in the car now...he and Ellie both bop along to music together when we're out and about.
Emmit has just a couple words so far - 'Mama' and 'uh-oh'. He'll nod his head yes or no though too. He's also learned to sign 'more' which he uses as the dinner table most often =)
Emmit loves to chase, be chased, and rough house with Daddy and Ellie. He'll jump right in the action forgetting how little he is at times. He'll also 'run' circles around the house chasing after Ellie. They are starting to play pretty well together now, though sharing is usually an issue. Emmit can throw a fit when he's mad, and the thing that makes him mad most often is Ellie taking something from him or not getting his way. He loves to go outside, so will throw a fit when it's time to come in. Or if he wants into a room and you close the door, he doesn't like that either. He'll grab onto the gate and shake it if he wants to go upstairs. He can definitely throw a fit when he's mad, but thankfully, that's not too often.
Emmit still has 6 teeth (4 top, 2 bottom), but it seems like more might be coming as he's been biting a lot again. Between Ellie and now Emmit, the edge of the crib has teeth imprints just about all the way around. I guess it feels good to bit on a wooden railing!
Emmit's 1 year check-up won't be a few weeks yet, so we'll have to wait on his stats. Carrying him for any length of time though will convince you that he's BIG, and I have biceps to show for it =)
Happy Birthday Baby Boy - we love you!
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Our 2 1/2 Year Old!
Ellie's 2 1/2 now so I thought I'd do a post on her, since she's changed a lot since her 2nd birthday! She has really grown up in these last 6 months - she's much more independent and talking more and more! Ellie continues to say the funniest things - everyday she comes up with something and we're just like - where did she hear that?! Today's funny phrase was 'my bad'.
Ellie likes to remind us of the rules - her teachers say that she's a very good listener. Before telling us a rule, she'll put her finger up by her cheek and say, "Remember"...followed by, 'we don't run inside, we use walking feet', 'we talk with our inside voices', 'we don't hit our friends'...she reminds us of the rules a lot =)
She loves to sing songs - kid songs like Twinkle Twinkle and Baa Baa Black Sleep, but also songs she hears on the radio like Your Love is My Drug, OMG, and California Gurls! The first time she started singing Your Love is My Drug, I could not stop laughing.
Ellie is very independent and loves to put on (and more-so take off) her clothes. She changes quite often. She also has a tendency to put EVERYTHING on upside down and backwards. I'm not even joking, 9 time out of 10, she will put whatever it is she's putting on backwards. Shoes are ALWAYS on the wrong feet! Ellie's always very well accessorized. Everyday she wears bracelets. Most days she wears her watch and ring too. Some days she wears sunglasses. She loves pretties in her hair and hats at times. Stickers are also favorites on her clothes, legs, and arms. She's almost always decked out!
Over the last 5 days we've reached a big milestone - peeing on the potty! We have been entertaining the potty for almost a year now. She took her first interest coincidentally right after Emmit was born. Since then she's been going here and there. About 2 weeks ago though, she started changing her own Pull-Up. She'd get up in the morning and before coming out of her room, put a clean one on. She'd do that throughout the day everytime she wet. And then this last Saturday, instead of a Pull-Up she put underwear on and that was it! She's had a few accidents, but has been pretty much dry for the last 5 days! Pooping is a different story - those are daily accidents still, but she tells us when she has to go and after she has gone - just isn't up for going on the potty yet. So, that'll be our next milestone I guess! We've just cut our diaper changing in half - I can't complain!
Ellie really loves to play outside. This summer we've had a lot of fun playing on the slip 'n slide, sprinklers, and pool, going to the park, and playing hop scotch. She also likes her downtime - usually reading stories or watching TV. Ellie's favorite shows these days are Wow Wow Wubzy and Max & Ruby. She still likes Gabba and also the Wonderpets, but the first 2 are by far her FAVS. Ellie's loves to talk about birthdays. She'll talk about someone's birthday for weeks. This last month it's been mine, Carson's, her friend Sam's, and Emmit's coming up. She also likes to say what things are for 'little girls' and what things are for 'little boys'. Emmit can't play with a lot of things because they are only for 'little girls'.
Ellie is still quite attached to her nummy and loves her blankie. Those will be hard habits to break. She has a book called the 'Binky Box', and it's all about making a bed for binky so he can sleep by himself. Well, we call it the nummy box, and Ellie's recently made a nummy box, so we'll see.
She has yet to get her first haircut, but at least we can put some pretties in now! =)
I could probably go on and on, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something good, but all I can say is she's a little HAM right now and we love her!
Playing outside
Smelling/picking Grandma's flowers
Pretend sleeping on the swing
Silly under the coffee table
One particularly funny rendition of Baa Baa Black Sleep that Auntie Sara caught on camera.
Ellie LOVES Emmit. She loves to help him and give him things. She has already made him a birthday card. She is a very proud big sister!
Wearing Mama's shoes. She has her own princess high heels which she wears a lot! They're great at like 6:00 am clicking around downstairs - then EVERYBODY'S UP! =)
Super star!
Ellie has a little obsession with putting things on to 'make her feel better'. She says this phrase a lot - 'I put stickers on my legs to make them feel better', 'I put sunscream (that's how she says it) on my arm to make it feel better', 'Ice cream/suckers/(insert any sweet!) will make me feel better'...etc. etc. Well, this particular day, Ellie decided that rubbing almost an entire jar of Vaseline on her head would make it feel better! It was such a mess and didn't come out for 3 days!!
One VERY accessorized morning!
Ellie likes to remind us of the rules - her teachers say that she's a very good listener. Before telling us a rule, she'll put her finger up by her cheek and say, "Remember"...followed by, 'we don't run inside, we use walking feet', 'we talk with our inside voices', 'we don't hit our friends'...she reminds us of the rules a lot =)
She loves to sing songs - kid songs like Twinkle Twinkle and Baa Baa Black Sleep, but also songs she hears on the radio like Your Love is My Drug, OMG, and California Gurls! The first time she started singing Your Love is My Drug, I could not stop laughing.
Ellie is very independent and loves to put on (and more-so take off) her clothes. She changes quite often. She also has a tendency to put EVERYTHING on upside down and backwards. I'm not even joking, 9 time out of 10, she will put whatever it is she's putting on backwards. Shoes are ALWAYS on the wrong feet! Ellie's always very well accessorized. Everyday she wears bracelets. Most days she wears her watch and ring too. Some days she wears sunglasses. She loves pretties in her hair and hats at times. Stickers are also favorites on her clothes, legs, and arms. She's almost always decked out!
Over the last 5 days we've reached a big milestone - peeing on the potty! We have been entertaining the potty for almost a year now. She took her first interest coincidentally right after Emmit was born. Since then she's been going here and there. About 2 weeks ago though, she started changing her own Pull-Up. She'd get up in the morning and before coming out of her room, put a clean one on. She'd do that throughout the day everytime she wet. And then this last Saturday, instead of a Pull-Up she put underwear on and that was it! She's had a few accidents, but has been pretty much dry for the last 5 days! Pooping is a different story - those are daily accidents still, but she tells us when she has to go and after she has gone - just isn't up for going on the potty yet. So, that'll be our next milestone I guess! We've just cut our diaper changing in half - I can't complain!
Ellie really loves to play outside. This summer we've had a lot of fun playing on the slip 'n slide, sprinklers, and pool, going to the park, and playing hop scotch. She also likes her downtime - usually reading stories or watching TV. Ellie's favorite shows these days are Wow Wow Wubzy and Max & Ruby. She still likes Gabba and also the Wonderpets, but the first 2 are by far her FAVS. Ellie's loves to talk about birthdays. She'll talk about someone's birthday for weeks. This last month it's been mine, Carson's, her friend Sam's, and Emmit's coming up. She also likes to say what things are for 'little girls' and what things are for 'little boys'. Emmit can't play with a lot of things because they are only for 'little girls'.
Ellie is still quite attached to her nummy and loves her blankie. Those will be hard habits to break. She has a book called the 'Binky Box', and it's all about making a bed for binky so he can sleep by himself. Well, we call it the nummy box, and Ellie's recently made a nummy box, so we'll see.
She has yet to get her first haircut, but at least we can put some pretties in now! =)
I could probably go on and on, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something good, but all I can say is she's a little HAM right now and we love her!
Playing outside
Smelling/picking Grandma's flowers
Pretend sleeping on the swing
Silly under the coffee table
One particularly funny rendition of Baa Baa Black Sleep that Auntie Sara caught on camera.
Ellie LOVES Emmit. She loves to help him and give him things. She has already made him a birthday card. She is a very proud big sister!
Wearing Mama's shoes. She has her own princess high heels which she wears a lot! They're great at like 6:00 am clicking around downstairs - then EVERYBODY'S UP! =)
Super star!
Ellie has a little obsession with putting things on to 'make her feel better'. She says this phrase a lot - 'I put stickers on my legs to make them feel better', 'I put sunscream (that's how she says it) on my arm to make it feel better', 'Ice cream/suckers/(insert any sweet!) will make me feel better'...etc. etc. Well, this particular day, Ellie decided that rubbing almost an entire jar of Vaseline on her head would make it feel better! It was such a mess and didn't come out for 3 days!!
One VERY accessorized morning!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Boyer Cousins
The week after the 4th we also had our first photo shoot with cousin Henry. Shannon's friend Kyle took the pictures in Marquette. The whole point of the photo shoot was to get a picture of the 3 cousins together - well that we did, but they weren't the smiliest bunch! Ellie was SASSY and very uncooperative. Henry wasn't up for smiling. Emmit was happy as a clam (there are lots of good ones of Emmit). We attempted some group shots, but for the most part we got a lot of good individual candids and personalities shining through! Memories! =)
This was the best one of the 3 of them!
This was the best one of the 3 of them!
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Pomeroy Cousins!
When we were home for the 4th, we had our first photo shoot with all the Pomeroy cousins! My cousin Brooke did an awesome job capturing the personalities of this rambunctious bunch! It was quite the shoot! Thanks again Brooke!! =)
There are a lot of pictures, but here are some of my favorites...
Our two babies
Ellie thinking very hard =) Matthew all smiles in the background!
Brothers!
Missing some teeth! =)
The big boys in the trailor
Having fun on the swings
Max swinging
I love his big blues eyes in this one
Little Matthew
Close-up of Emmit
This is the best picture of all the kids in the trailor...after this Emmit was SCREAMING!
Just the big kids
An attempt with Grandma and Grandpa...Emmit is not having it, Ellie is being sassy, Brendan and Aiden are joking it up, Max and Matthew are all cool...this was one of the funnier moments... =)
Everyone's happy (kind of)
All the cousins together (this was before the trailor chaos)...Max (2), Emmit (10 months), Aiden (4), Matthew (4 months), Brendan (7), and Ellie (2)
There are a lot of pictures, but here are some of my favorites...
Our two babies
Ellie thinking very hard =) Matthew all smiles in the background!
Brothers!
Missing some teeth! =)
The big boys in the trailor
Having fun on the swings
Max swinging
I love his big blues eyes in this one
Little Matthew
Close-up of Emmit
This is the best picture of all the kids in the trailor...after this Emmit was SCREAMING!
Just the big kids
An attempt with Grandma and Grandpa...Emmit is not having it, Ellie is being sassy, Brendan and Aiden are joking it up, Max and Matthew are all cool...this was one of the funnier moments... =)
Everyone's happy (kind of)
All the cousins together (this was before the trailor chaos)...Max (2), Emmit (10 months), Aiden (4), Matthew (4 months), Brendan (7), and Ellie (2)
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