Monday, June 28, 2010

Swimming and Dr. Pepper

Emma had her first weekend of swimming! Kristen and I took Emma and Wills swimming at the clubhouse where they live. It was a lot of fun and Emma really enjoyed it. We need to get her a sun hat so we can keep the fun off her head. However, Steph let us borrow a cool swim tube thing with a roof to keep the sun away. Emma LOVED watching people and the sun reflecting in the water. She was having a great time until it was nap time.

I was sad. Emma got a really cute watermelon swimsuit from Grandma Close and she's too long already! We still got to use the cute coverup that goes with it though. She looked so cute :).





So you're probably wondering: What do swimming and Dr. Pepper have to do with each other? The answer is....they don't. I just decided to put both posts in one :).
Cade helped someone at work with a sale and the guy wrote an email saying as a thank you he'd like to take Cade to get a drink sometime. Cade replied, "the hardest thing I drink is Dr. Pepper." The guy thought that was funny and sent this for Emma....it was pretty awesome.

Miss Emma, growing up

Emma has been growing fast lately and it's so fun to see. She now army crawls around and so I definitely have to baby proof the house. Everyday she gets faster and faster. Sometimes she'll get her legs underneath her, but sits there for a second, until she decides she can move faster the other way! Emma also LOVES to have attention from Mommy all day long...really all day. I'll put her in the family room with a toy (that keeps her attention for about 3 minutes), then she'll crawl to the stairs to the kitchen, lift herself up on the first step and say, "ah! ah! ah! ah! ah! ah!"...I think you get the point...until I come rescue her from the boredom of her toys. She would rather be in my arms to watch dinner being made, or sweeping, or whatever I'm doing...it's much more fun than her bumble bee that just says "buzz, buzz" over and over, or her telephone that can't even sing on tune. So needless to say, it's harder to get stuff done during the day, but she's still wonderful and amazing and I love seeing her grow!



I also finished her room!!! The only room that is completely done...and very, very girly :). But hey...she's a girl and my first. I think I deserve to have fun being extremely girly.


We've been having a lot of fun together this summer. Cade and I are trying to get in a work out routine...well, I say "try"...Cade is succeeding...I am still "trying". This was one morning that was still chilly. But we got a really cool jogging stroller on KSL that we LOVE. It's fun to be able to all go together sometimes.

Emma likes to help me with the laundry sometimes...

but really any box she can sit in is fun for her :)

Another thing about Emma: she loves her feet!!! She loves playing with toys with her feet, sucking on her feet, grabing things with her toes, and helping hold her bottle with her feet. It's pretty dang cute :).

Her peach fuzz is sure working hard lately. Cade likes to try to do a mohawk after bath time...he calls it a mo-puff though. Hey, she's workin on it!


OH, every stage is so fun. It's fun to see how much she is growing all the time. We love our Emma!

Baby Henry!!!

This post is really late, but I still wanted to blog about my adorable new little nephew...Henry Gordon Thomas Bleak. He was born June 10th at 6:43 p.m. Weighed 7 lbs 2 oz, 20 in long. Steph and Nathan went to the hospital after 4:00 p.m. They texted everyone just after 6 and said, "come quick! She already dialated to a 10. The baby's coming!" The only person that was able to get there for the delivery was Amanda, Steph's sister. I ran in just as the doctor's were cleaning stuff up and they put cute little Henry in Steph's arms. It was great to be there....especially for a non-NICU baby!!! That was the remarkable part. We haven't seen, until now, how a normal delivery and welcome home should go for a baby! We are so happy that everything went great, fast, and that Henry is very healthy! Such a blessing! Here are some great pictures of that day...

Doesn't Steph look beautiful after just going through all that? Nathan, I guess you look pretty good too...good job.


A good set of lungs! That's what we like to hear!!


Here are some pictures that were taken while in the hospital...He's soooo cute!!!




Congrats Nathan, Steph, and Wills! We're so happy for you!