Newman's Review...

• Emma's sleeping has improved! Most nights she sleeps through the night, unless, she is teething! Emma, 5:30 is TOO early to wake up for the day... She usually goes back to sleep, but has to be with me! URG!
• Emma's new words are... "nana (banana), dye (bye), baba (baby), cacker (cracker), ah oh and boo" there are probably more, but I can't remember them!
• Emma is starting to run... YIKES!
• Emma is starting to give me cues when she needs to be changed... early potty training??? I think that is wishful thinking!
• Ethan is able to count and recognize numbers to 100! I have to say, I'm impressed!
• We had preschool at our house last week and Ethan LOVED it!
• Scott just got home from another trip to Virginia! I think he's been there at least 10 times this year! Now he's home for Thanksgiving!
• We are preparing our HUGE bedroom closet for a closet organizer which includes shelves and a work table! STORAGE! We are having the same people who did our kitchen cabinets do our closet organizer. I'm super excited and will post pictures when done!

Emma's Blankies

Almost every child has something they use for comfort... Ethan, it is Billow... For Emma... it's her blankies! She LOVES these blankets! She is constantly dragging them everywhere she goes and there is no way she is going to sleep without them! I have to drape one or both blankets over my shoulder so she can cuddle with me and the blankets before we go to bed! The blankets start in her crib and when Emma gets upset she runs to her room and reaches into her crib and pulls out her blankets for comfort!

Ethan also has a white blanket similar to Emma's... She thought it was hers and here she is trying to get it from Ethan!

Meet Billow

Meet Billow... This is Ethan's "baby"... Baby was what he was called until daddy asked Ethan what his name is and Ethan came up with Billow! Get it, Pillow with a B! Ethan got Baby when he was born from Grandma Newman and ever since he's been one, Baby has been his sleeping buddy! Recently we've notice Baby was becoming more "real"... Ethan is starting to talk with Baby... "I'll be right back, I have to go to preschool..." or "I'm home now!"

I've caught Billow propped up on pillows "watching TV" ... Ethan is starting to give Billow naps... He'll tuck him in and turn his music on. Last week we had preschool at our house and Ethan told his friends that they have to be quiet because Billow was taking a nap. It was a short nap for Billow because the kids were too loud! Ethan and Billow are inseparable... Billow had to go the "hospital" last month because Ethan vomited all over him and he had to be scrubbed down. I was very surprised that Ethan was able to sleep without him!

All tucked in and ready for a nap!

Family Pictures 2010

A special thank you to our friend, Ben, for helping us with our pictures... These are some of the better ones and are unedited... Enjoy!

One of my favorites!

Ethan is the best brother... most of the time!

Love this one!

I think this was the best family shot! Ethan didn't have his usual "silly face."

Ethan... what can I say?

Emma had to stop on the way to gather a handful of leaves!

Love this picture of my little man!

I really like this one too! I love how Ethan is grabbing Scott's leg!

So innocent!

Emma loves those beads!

Another favorite!

Happy Halloween!

A wet and miserable day to go trick or treating but we grabbed an umbrella and Ethan had his hat and off we went! We just took Emma to a few house. We would have taken her out more, but it was just to dang cold and I wasn't in the mood to deal with another cold from her... She enjoyed herself and got the hang of grabbing the candy and putting it in her bucket!

I was surprised how well Ethan did... He was sick, but he toughed it out! He crashed and burned when we got home!

On your mark... get set... go!

I put a flower Emma's costume so people will stop calling her "dude"...

She loves her suckers!

Newman's Review...

As we all know, Halloween was this past weekend! It was a blast despite the rain! Stay tuned to pics of the kids! I need to get them from Scott! This past week... well, is something I would like to call, sickening!... Let me explain!

• Last Sunday Emma somehow caught the dreaded "stomach bug"... Yep, you guessed it! Vomit! Emma has been sick A LOT, especially these past 2 months, but this is the first time she has puked! May I just say... EW! GROSS! Never had to deal with this before, not even with Ethan... it was disgusting! Thank goodness it passed quickly...
• Passed quickly to me! A couple of days later, I got it... I was up all night, sick! And, yes, I did puke too... I can't remember the last night I threw up because I was sick! I threw up after delivering Ethan and once while I was pregnant with Emma... But I never get sick to my stomach and up chuck everywhere! I can't believe it got me!
• Next it was Scott's turn... He was nausea, but no throwing up for him! Thank goodness!
• We thought we got off lucky and Ethan didn't get it... until... midnight, Thursday night... You guessed it... Ethan puked in his bed and again all over his floor... put him back to bed and it happened again in bed 30 mins later and 30 mins after that and after that and so on... I was so tired cleaning up puke I put him on the couch! And we were up ALL night long puking and watching TV!
• So now... I think we are done being sick, until Emma decides to find another germ to house!

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Some good things did happen...

• Emma is making all sorts of animal sounds... cat, dog, monkey, duck... My favorite is her meow... On Sunday in the middle of Sacrament if you heard a meow, that would be my daughter! She is very convincing!
• Scott worked from home last week, YEAH! He is now in Atlanta, but with promise of next week completely off...
• Tooth #5 FINALLY broke through for Emma! 6 weeks! It's about time!

Here are some fun pics of the kidlets!

Emma LOVES hats! This is Ethan's Woody hat from his costume... She put this thing on and grabbed her pumpkin bucket and was heading to the door to go trick or treating... um, that was last night, princess!
She just cracks me up! Too cute!

So precious!

Went to Wally World this morning and Emma fell asleep on the way back... instead of putting her in her crib, I set her on the floor...

Nothing is more adorable than a sleeping child...

Carving Pumpkins

OK... can you believe this is the first time we carved pumpkins. What's wrong with us! I know I had a good time and I'm sure the kids did too... but Scott... he couldn't even get his hands in there... Just look at him... he can barely touch it!

It took a lot of convincing to get Ethan to put his hands in there!

The kids are fascinated!

So I stepped up and I put my hands in there and did it! It was a bit smelly and slimy... but it was fun! Brought back a lot of good memories!

Scott wanted more of a masterpiece, but realized we are beginners and decided next year we will be more prepared... so I did the classic jack-o-lantern face... Not too bad, if I can say so myself!

Ethan with his pumpkin... He did help gutting the thing...well, sort of!

Little Emma had to be where the action is... up front and center! She just looks so innocent!