a little piece of Emma

It has been a rough few weeks with this little one. She hasn't wanted to sleep at all. With no fever I had no reason to take her to the doctor but with much research online we decided it was just a terrible two thing. The first week was HORRIBLE. When we put her in bed - which has never been a problem - she would scream non-stop for two hours at a time. Sometimes never able to calm herself down. 

We tried many different things, only twice having to resort to Benadryl, and here we are... four weeks later. She's doing much better now, not crying for as long, but also not back to how she was before. I'm hoping eventually we'll get back to that. She won't sleep in her bed but chooses to sleep on the floor by her bedroom door. It's sad, I know. 

This particular night we let her stay up with us a little later then normal, hoping she'd be so tired she'd zonk out  better. Of course it didn't work, but we enjoyed playing football with her while she was happy. :)

9/29/10

She was so good to let me put rollers in her hair. She's such a doll with them in. They weren't dry enough when I took them out but I'm happy to say her hair will curl well. :)

10/01/10

Just my goofy Emma!!

10/02/10

Even though we've had a rough few weeks with her I still absolutely ADORE this little one. (And the goofy boy next to her... and the funny one not pictured...)

Conversations with Marley

**Remember: She has a "Marley Accent"**

Marley: Can I have the water bottle?

Mom: Are you from Brooklyn?

(She said 'water bottle' in a Tony Maccelli sorta way...)

Ignoring me she says again...

Marley: Can I have the water bottle?

Mom: Are you from Brooklyn?

Marley: What?

I ask again. Again she asks What?

Me: Where are you from?

Marley: You. 

Kids are so dang cute. 

Conversations with Marley

We must be having some good conversations with the kids lately because it's all I'm posting!! I'm not necessarily posting these for the enjoyment of the reader but for me and my kids a few years down the road. I'm sure I will forget about this story in a month and it's one I rather remember... even in 20 years!  

Picture this: Marley sitting at the kitchen table eating her lunch; a green salad topped with lunch meat, hard boiled egg and of course ranch dressing. We all know her cute little talk, well sometimes it's hard to understand what she says, especially when the letter R is involved. She picks up a piece of the yolk of the egg on her fork and asks...

"Is this a boid?"

(something to that effect)

For the life of me I couldn't figure out what she was saying. Finally she goes...

"You know, tweet tweet!"

Ohhh.... A bird!!! No, it's not, it's an egg!!!

Emma-ism...

It's her first!!

So I'm downstairs changing laundry and on my way up Emma meets me at the top of the stairs. "Mere" she is saying, waving her little fingers at me. I follow her into the girls' room wear I hear a strange humming sound. What the?? I walked in and she points to the hand mixer which she had taken in there, plugged in, and turned on. Oh my, and I thought Marley was curious, she's never plugged things in before!!

Emma, you must be TWO!!!

Flag Football... Game Two

Game Two

Red Jersey's

Corbin #17

"Look Mom, I'm Austin Collie!"

My little Quarter Back. I love his facial expression in this picture. 

Made a great catch. After this he caught a great touch down pass.  He landed pretty hard on his back. He was laughing saying that he hurt his butt. I'm glad he's OK. :)

Deflected!

His cousin Tyler (in front) is running the ball. It looks like Corbin is going to go in  for the block. There's that facial expression again! 

Conversations with Corbin

Yesterday Corbin learned all about Utah's history. What our state flower is, the state bird, state animal (did you know we have a state animal?), the state bear, and so on and so forth.

Well tonight we went and got the kids pictures taken out in a field with plenty of grasshoppers. He says this...

Corbin: I don't know why I can't kill the grasshoppers, they ate the pioneers crops. Don't they deserve payback?

Marley: What are the pioneers crops?

Corbin: Their food. They could have died. If they would have died you wouldn't have been born. 

He's taught me a thing or two (and more) about our Utah history. I'm glad he loves school and that he's learning so much. I'm so proud of him.  

Conversations with Marley

While tucking her into bed this conversation went something like this...

Marley: Mom, where is my old backpack?

Me: Still in the van.

(it has a bunch of books in it "for the road" and I believe she wanted to read some of them while going to sleep)

Marley: Crud.

She's never used that word before and I thought it was kind of cute so I say...

Crud? (with a little laugh)

Marley: (while fluffing her pillow and getting comfy nonchalantly says) Ya, it means sh*t. 

I had to stop from laughing and quickly correct her and explain that this was a word that would make her get soap on her tongue. I asked her where she heard this and learned it and she said "I dunno, just me." Then she said to ask her kindergarten teacher. I'm wondering if somehow this was talked about in school. I don't know. Sometimes I just don't know.