The Things They Say

I have really been enjoying my friend, Lauren's, blog posts (or is it my friend's, Lauren,??) "Overheard at my house." Just now at the Ray house...

Me: Maryn, why is there water all over the bathroom floor?

Maryn: three or four unintelligible words

Me: What, Mer?

Maryn: I'm planting seeds (as she fills her cups with water and pours them all over the counter).

Almost...

I almost got out of Target with only the things on my list. Does that EVER happen? Not to me. I was pretty proud of myself walking to the checkout lane until I saw these...
No, they're not Godiva and yes, they'd be better if they were made with dark chocolate but YUM! I couldn't get the bag open myself so I asked the check-out girl for some scissors. Is that too obsessive about chocolate?

Winter Wonderland

It's 11 pm Sunday night and it has been snowing big, beautiful snowflakes since about 6 pm. We have at least 4 inches. Will try to get some pictures of the kids playing tomorrow. Mark informed me tonight that he's never made a snowman before so we will be sure to fix that!!

Not fourth but second

My friend Nicole tagged me to post the fourth picture from my fourth album on facebook. Since I only have two albums I decided to do the second picture from the second album. Since its a tag... Sarah is my only friend who has a blog and is also on facebook. So its up to you Sarah!!

This is from Parker's first day of school last year at Sonshine when he was in the 2 year old class. Funny that today we found out he is going to do four days next year and Maryn two days, Tuesday and Thursday and our friend Cam is going to be in the T-K program at Sonshine next year too!!

On another note Emma has almost officially started crawling! We were at Meg's this morning waiting for Ms. Joanna and she crawled across the den to get Miles' bottle on the floor. She would crawl a little, fall on her tummy and then crawl a little more. All I could say was "OH NO!!" My world is getting ready to change...

And I meant to post her favorite toys in her own little post last week but I forgot. If you need a gift for a 6 month old I would highly recommend these. They are both Leapfrog toys. I couldn't find the drum on the Leapfrog website but it was on ebay for really cheap.

Emma Claire

Seeing as yesterday was Emma's 7 month birthday I am quite late on a 6 month update I had planned to do. She was 15 pounds 6 ounces which is the 45th percentile and 26 3/4 inches which is the 75th percentile in height. This was only a week ago because her check-up was a little late. I guess that's what happens when you're the third!

She is a very happy baby despite a couple of recent ear infections. She sucks her two fingers (like her mommy did), is doing a fair job with baby food- doesn't love it, laughs, sits up and is getting up on all fours like she wants to start crawling. I am not so excited about the crawling part! She is a great baby and Parker and Maryn love her so much. Maryn is always loving on her and wanting to hold her. Parker loves to make her laugh.



Emma and Adelaide


Emma and Luke


Emma's first bath with the big kids. Its a little crowded but much nicer to do them all at once.


Emma at her baptism. She wore the same dress that Joseph and I and all of my cousins wore. It was made by my Grandmother and has everyone's names and baptism dates embroidered on the slip.






Emma ready to crawl as Mommy is saying "NOT YET!!"

Last of Christmas

This should be the last of the Christmas posts, only a month late! I do realize there really aren't any pictures of Emma so she will get her own post very soon. We're doing pretty well these days. All of the kids have runny noses right now but have been actually quite healthy considering. I am happy to be back in a routine of school and our usual craziness. Parker is becoming a little bored with the typical things we do at home so if anyone has any suggestions to help keep a very busy 3 1/2 year old engaged please pass them along. He has been doing a lot of puzzles and my mom and I talked today about some preschool type things to do at home. (She teaches 5 yr old preschool in Nashville.)

Enjoy these random Christmas pictures.

We spent Christmas in Dothan and Maryn slept in the room with Grandma and Grandpops. One morning she was resting on her bed while Grandma was in the shower and when she came out this is what she saw...

my girl loves some make-up!

Parker had a very fire fighter Christmas!


The fire truck from my dad that actually squirts water. Exciting or very messy??? Fortunately it only holds 2 oz of water.


How is it that gum was one of their favorite things Christmas morning.


Playing in the house Papa and Dede gave her.


Oddly enough this has nothing to do with making sure Santa would fit. He's checking to see what a real chimney looks like since we just have a gas fireplace- in relation to his obsession with fire and fire fighting.


Parker's classroom at Sonshine complete with Ms. Anja. She is FANTASTIC. She doesn't let Parker get away with anything but loves him so much. Just what he needs!


Parker's Christmas program- he found me! That's his other teacher Ms. Lucretia in the green. She's great too.


Maryn playing bells at Ms. Joanna's. Ms. Joanna invited Meg and I to come and listen to Maryn and Cole's "Christmas program." It was adorable!!


Cole


The kids with Ms. Joanna. She is WONDERFUL- loves the kids so much and does really great things with them that I do not have the time or energy to do.


The big kids loving on Emma.


More fire fighting. It was warm enough in Dothan for Parker to try out his fire nozzle on Grandma's hose.


The kids with Grandma and Grandpops


Parker got Lincoln Logs for Christmas. Like we had as kids but a little updated with a cowboy and horse.


We're thinking of getting rid of her passy at three. Any fantastic foolproof ideas please let me know. I am dreading it.


My sweet Maryn. So many have said they've never heard one of her meltdowns. Maybe next post will be a video of that. But she is so sweet!!



Merry Christmas to all!!!

Christmas Cookies and Princesses

The kids and I spent one Thursday morning baking Christmas cookies. Baking with kids especially when there is a lot of flour involved takes a lot of patience. I did pretty well for a while and then after they ate the 100th piece of dough I told them I was going to finish by myself. They were fine with watching Cinderella after I promised them they could decorate the cookies later. Does anyone know where I can get cute aprons for them? I want something with their names on them for a reasonable price.


Baby Emma loves to suck on her fingers. She's not attached to a certain one as you can see. She is so much fun these days. She rolls all over the floor and is getting really close to sitting up on her own.


Mark may kill me for posting this but remember he's only 3. Parker that is not Mark. :) His favorite princess is Cinderella and he may be enjoying the movie more than Maryn. Joseph and Sarah gave it to Maryn for Christmas and I let them open it on a rainy day before Christmas. Side note- they gave Parker Hullabaloo which is a great game for kids. It gets them moving which will be wonderful this winter when its too cold to go outside.


Maryn usually dresses up as Aurora. I think she likes her best because she wears a pink dress and right now M loves anything pink. I am looking for a new kitchen table and when I told her yesterday that we were going to look for a new one at some furniture stores she asked what kind. I told her one for the kitchen and asked what kind she thought we should get... pink, of course!

More Christmas pictures to come...