10 Months Old

I'm a little behind on his 10 month update.  It has been a very crazy couple of months with travel and family visiting.  I can't believe we are almost to Emmett's one year birthday!!!!  This year has flown by:)  We feel so blessed to have this little man in our life and can't imagine a day without him.  His little personality has been coming out and he seems more like a little boy than a baby.  We love you so much big guy!!!!

-Set backs with eating solid foods and baby foods this month.  He's been so sick that all he wants are bottles lately.  We will get back on track once he gets over this little bug that's been going around

-Loves climbing up the stairs and has even been working on going down the stairs backwards

-Playing and exploring his new playroom in the basement

-Weight 21 lbs 11 oz at last appointment, haven't measured him a while to find out height

-Crawling around like crazy and loves climbing on anything he can get to.  Attempts getting up on the couch, scales the fireplace, tries climbing up the dog food container (pretty entertaining), loves climbing up and down on mom and dad.

-Emmett has been walking along furniture and is even balancing all on his own for a few seconds at a time.  I think he will be walking in no time!

Atlanta!

We went down for a week to help out with my nephews and niece. It was so much fun to hang out with Matt and Ashley too! I'm going back down the beginning of March.  I love being with everyone and having Emmett play with all his cousins.  There are always beautiful things that come out of the tough times.  God is good:)

Bath Time

Emmett loves bath time!  He loves playing with his toys, splashing in the water, and watching water come out of the faucet. He is so curious about everything around him and likes to try figuring things out.  We think it might be the little engineer in him.  He comes by it naturally;)

Getting ready to jump in!

Emmett reminds me so much of my nephew Roman at this age!  Ashley has the same picture of Roman standing by the bathtub!

Up to mischief

He loves all his bath toys 

So fun!!!!

9 Months Old

Emmett turned 9 months old while we were down in Atlanta.  He is still crawling around like crazy, climbing stairs, and trying to turn things into jungle gyms.  Emmett loves climbing over anything and everything!  It is so funny to watch him explore.  He loves cabinets, drawers, doors, etc.  Basically everything he shouldn't be getting into!  Ha! He is a great baby and so easy most days.  We are finally into a pretty solid sleep routine.  He wakes up around 7:30am or so and goes to bed between 7-8pm.  Emmett usually takes a morning and afternoon nap too.  Sometimes he gets a little off schedule when we travel or when he gets sick.  It is way different than the first 8 months of his life though.  It has been amazing to get sleep again!

8 months old

Emmett turned 8 months old on New Year's Day.  I can't believe how fast this past year went!  Our little guy is growing and changing so much each day and month.  He started full on crawling a few days after Christmas.  It has been non-stop ever since.  He has it coordinated pretty well and is on the move all the time.

-we have started eating stage 2 foods and loves Ella smoothies for babies
-crawling has been the big milestone this month
-loves his new stand up activity table
-Emmett is really starting to make sounds and trying to talk with us
-loves his jumper and got a new one for Christmas
-our phones and remote controls are probably his favorite toys

Family photos

We took some family photos for Christmas when Emmett got his 6 month ones done.  I love getting photos!  Best way to document life;)  I think Mike is starting to go along with me on this even though it's not his idea of a fun time.  Ha!

New Year's

We went to Mike's cousin Chris's house for New Years.  It was a blast.  There were a ton of kiddos and there was even a bounce house!  The kids had a blast and our cousin Lee even went all out and got party goodies to bring in the New Year.  Emmett once again was worn out after all the playing and partying!

Prepping of the bounce house.  The kids were so excited

They loved it!

Me and my New Year's buddy

Emmett and I got in too

Cousin James loved Emmett and even held him in the jumpy

Aunt Whitney gave me a break by feeding Emmett that night;)

Bringing in New Year's Eve at 10pm;)  The kiddos had no idea

It was a party!!!

Emmett wasn't sure what to think.  I love Will's party face!!!!

Happy 2014!!!

Taylar getting her sparkling grape juice on

The Triplets.  I can't believe they were only 3 years old when I came into their lives.  They are getting so big!!!