Why Joy?

Emma Joy Newman.... Why Joy? Joy is my middle name and my parents were so full of joy to finally have a girl after having 2 boys that they named me Melissa Joy... That is how I feel about my little girl. My heart was and still is full of Joy to have my little girl in my life.

Oh, what a Blessing!

On Sunday, Sept. 6th 2009 my baby girl, Emma Joy was blessed. What a day, a wonderful day! We had family come from Texas, California, and Wyoming... We had attendance of about 45 people. It was a crazy day, a day that I won't forget anytime soon. I was told Scott gave a beautiful blessing, which I missed because Ethan started throwing a tantrum during the blessing and I had to take him out. Thank goodness mom taped the blessing and hopefully will write up for me so I can read back what was said.

We had a fun get together afterwards at our home... It was stressful for me, getting the house clean and ready, making sure I have everything for the lunch, and trying to be a hostess. Anyone who knows me knows I don't do these things to well, but I think everything went pretty good. We had enough food and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.

Scott took so many pictures and it was hard to choose. I may have to make another blog entry for more pics of that afternoon. I just chose a few that showed what a great afternoon it was.

Emma with Grandma and Grandpa Riddle

Emma with all her grandmas... (one great grandma was not able to make it)

Emma with grandma and grandpa Caldwell

Emma with Grandma and Grandpa Newman

The Newman's... Ethan is pouting! It was a hard day for him.

Me with my baby girl...

An idea of what was going on in our backyard.

The Newman/Rollins family started a fun game of Red Rover... Look at Grandma Newman go!

Another pouting moment from my little guy... notice the finger... GROSS!

A cookie always turns a frown upside down!

Aunt Jaime with Emma...

Me with my beautiful children!

Preschool!

My little man is growing up! Not only is he turning 3 this week, he is starting to go to preschool. Ethan is participating in a neighborhood, co-op preschool with 4 other little boys. He can't be more excited! Every Thursday he goes for 2 hours and gets to spend time with the boys.

Last Thursday was Ethan's first day. We packed up some balls for show and tell and I actually combed his hair and we walked over to the Lambert's house. He had so much fun that when I came to pick him up, he started to cry. He didn't want to leave.

He's been looking forward to school all summer and his only disappointment was he doesn't get to ride the school bus. That day will come sooner then I think. Ethan gets to be big and go to school!

2 Months

Emma is now 2 months... How time flies! She just had her 2 month check up. Here is how she measured up....

23 Inches long... 65%

11 lb. 2 oz... 48%

OFC (head) 15.5"... 58%

Our little Emma is growing and developing. She is starting to show us her smile more and more, she coos, and she holds her head up pretty good.

Some of her favorite things to do is sleep (of course), loves to eat, get on the floor and kick and smiling at her favorite people...

We finally got her pics taken last week.

Isn't she just adorable?

Summertime Blues

I can't believe there is talk of kids going back to school! I can't believe that September is almost here! I can't believe that the days are getting shorter and the nights longer! What happened to summer? I feel like I haven't had much of a summer this year. I've spent most of my summer indoors caring for a newborn and watching a tornado, named Ethan, tear up the house. Next year I hope to have a wonderful summer and here is list of some things that I missed out this year, but will do next year (I hope).

• Go Camping
• Go to a swimming park/pool
• Get a nice sunburn (I know that can't be good, but it's evidence of being outside and enjoying summer).
• Go to the mountains
• Go on vacation
• Go farther than 45 minutes from my house.
• Work in the yard. (I actually like doing this believe it or not)
• Stay up past 10

The New Camera!

I finally caved! Scott bought himself a new digital camera. I have to say, it was worth the money. These photos are amazing quality and I hope this gets Scott back into taking more pictures. Most of these pics are from our trip to Red Butte Gardens from last Saturday. Afterall, Scott had to go play with his new toy!

I'm putting my favorite first... Doesn't that smile just melt your heart!

Of course there is always my little bubba... He was naughty and wanted to climb on all the rocks. It wasn't until after that I saw the sign, "no climbing on the rocks." Oops!

She is lovin' her tongue these days.

Amazing!

Love this one!

I actually don't look too bad... I can actually see the color of my eyes.

More from Red Butte.

If you look close enough, you can see Scott's reflection in Ethan's sunglasses.

This isn't from Red Butte, but I like it anyways. She was taking a snooze while Ethan swam in his pool.

Potty Training

We are trying to get Ethan potty trained. He'll be 3 in about 5 weeks and I'm hoping to have some kind success by then. At the moment, I'm having no luck. Ethan is willingly getting on the potty and "trying" to go potty. But recently he will sit on the potty and get in the bathtub and then do his business. We were thinking he just doesn't know what we mean, but tonight I now know that he does know what it feels like to go potty... here is how it played out...

Ethan tries the potty as usual... He, unclothed... including no diaper, gets up from the potty and walks to the nursery door way and says, "go potty right here" as he starts to go... Scott comes running with a diaper to catch most of it.

Little stinker is playin' us...