Emmit, Preschool, and Birthdays

This is how we often find Emmit these days.  He is pretty quick to spit out the pacifier and find his thumb!

Lyla's preschool

Lyla does a great job of talking to Emmit.  Going to post a video of it.

Lincoln giving a card to Emmit.  He will often say, "I am making a card for my favorite person."

Lincoln had 6 friends from his school come for his birthday party.  It was pretty wild around here!

Birthday take 2!  Lincoln also got to have his cousin's over lat that night for another birthday.  We sort of spoiled him rotten!   We thought it was important for him to have friends over since it was his first year at school, but he couldn't let the cousin sleepover idea go (he did this last year).  We caved and let him do both.  That's what you call bad parenting.:)  Yes, we were exhausted at the end of all the craziness...but it was alot of FUN!

Bo really liked the flashlight.

This is not the night before as you would think, but in the MORNING!  Apparently the kids were up at 5:30??  Matt told them they could get up at 6:00 so thats when they came barreling in the house.  I couldn't believe how much energy they all had! Here they are using  the new toy bug zapper and searching for bugs.  I think they were looking at a map someone drew too.

Examining their findings.  

Brock told me he saw a bug above my cupboards and climbed up and zapped it for me. 

Playing with all the new toys!  They all seemed to get along really well and had alot of fun!

Lyla and Lincoln get to play on the same team this fall.  This is Lylas first time playing.

Playing "party" with Emmit.  "party" or "sleepover" means piling up toys and blankets!

Granda Brenda's birthday.  A rare fuss from Emmit.  Seriously, he hardly ever cries!It was a big one though- I think he was mad because the restaurant was so loud we didn't hear him crying in his stoller! Poor guy!

Celebrating Lincoln's birthday at school

First time I noticed him smiling at himself in the mirror

Crazy but he can worm his way off the blanket already, and also flip over.  Lyla and Lincoln didnt move until they were like 9 months, I think Lyla not until 10!  He seems to really enjoy being on the floor, tolerates the bouncy, highchair, swing, but will stay on the floor a very long time!