Teeth

I tried to get a picture of two teeth.

Loud baby

Emily was playing in the bathroom yesterday, and was (obviously) really loud. I did think it was somewhat hilarious, though.

Have I mentioned that I'm on Spring Break? I'm off until next Tuesday--hooray!

Finished closet

We put the finishing touches on the closet this weekend--carpet, mirror, etc. Hooray for being all moved in!

Snuggler

We may have posted before about how Emily snuggles with stuffed animals in order to fall asleep. This is hilarious proof.

New swimsuit

I had been searching everywhere for a bathing suit for Emily that was reasonably priced. I finally found this one today for $10. Now I just need to find her a bikini...

New children's church rooms

Prior to this morning we used to have three classes for kids 0-5, and then one class (kid's church) for grades K-5, which would breakout into two smaller groups due to their large numbers. Over the past month or so they created a new kid's church auditorium with two breakout rooms, and then the three little kids classes became five. I took pics of the kids' church rooms because they're AWESOME.

Here's one of the breakout rooms (K-1st):

The other breakout room (2nd-3rd):
Main auditorium/4th-5th:
I wish this picture was lighter, but the lights were out & I didn't want to disturb. This is the stage with awesome backdrop.

Dad's bathtime photos

Doesn't she look like she's laughing at a joke? Or applying a bubble beard on purpose (see next picture)?

This is her "America's Next Top Model" pose that I included for Dez and any other fellow addicts. Except they'd say her right arm looks like it's been amputated.

Crazy happenings at school

The week (yes, it's only Tuesday) has been full of odd things:
*One of my new students (I've literally only had him in class 6 times) was arrested because he pushed another teacher twice.
*We had four subs in the sixth grade hall today--not fun for the rest of us.
*The sub for one of the teachers yesterday was escorted off campus because he was doing lewd things in the classroom and being inappropriate with the girls.
*A student in my neighbor's class somehow made it to a site that displayed a naked girl for the whole class to see.

Pictures from my phone

A tornado-like cloud that I saw driving home today, but I don't think it was truly a tornado.
Emily and Presley at dinner a few weeks ago. Presley is Ron & Shea's daughter, and a fellow PK (he's our youth pastor).
On Saturday Emily rode all by herself in the cart for the first time (sans carseat). She looks scared here, but she really liked it.

Tornados

We had tornados all around us today, but we're okay. At school we got to sit in the hall in the duck-and-cover position for more than half an hour. Actually, after about 10 minutes we let the kids turn around and put their backs against the wall--their knees and legs were hurting. I think that three tornados touched down, but there may have been more. None left any significant damage. After school Emily and I did hang out in the bathtub for about 10 minutes because there was a "storm that could produce tornados" going right through our neighborhood (they actually named our neighborhood on the news). I'm not sure if I like tornados or earthquakes better...at least with earthquakes there's no anticipation and buildup.

Kronk (pics for Kim)

So dignified.

True Southerner--smocked outfit

The family that gives us all of Emily's hand-me-downs lent us few items that she wants back,

so we wore one today. It's adorable!

The bedroom, continued

We finally had some time to continue our bedroom project. We painted the closet and put in the organizer--we're so glad to have our clothes back in our closet!! I really like that we painted the back wall red.

Jumping fool

This morning Emily was playing like crazy in her jumper. This is a minute or so of her glee.

Time to lower the bed

We had decided this week to lower Emily's bed, seeing as she's becoming more and more mobile.
And then she showed us that it was a very good idea.

Mirror

This morning Em was making faces at herself in the mirror on her exersaucer. She was blowing raspberries, and moving her face really close and laughing at herself.

9-month checkup (a bit early)

Emily's still short and skinny, but we did finally make it to 18 pounds (on the nose). She's 26 inches tall. And while her head is still big, it's now at the top of average instead of way above it. Overall she had a good checkup; her hemoglobin was back up (hooray for no more purple iron drops) and she got her second flu shot. She's cutting her second tooth on bottom. She pulled up yesterday, but she's still not crawling--we may be in for some trouble. Thanks, Paul!!

Playing outside

After school today, Emily and I went outside and played on the front lawn (no risk of land mines).
Kronk came with us. He's my favorite to take out front because he'll never go past our yard, he doesn't need a leash, and if I'm ever worried that he's getting too close to the edge, I call him and he immediately comes. Good puppy.
Emily kicked her feet like crazy in the grass.

She started out sitting, then rolled to her stomach, and ended up eventually spinning in a circle on her stomach while playing with/reaching for various things--camera, blanket, twigs, leaves, etc.

The belly

Emily has been eating like crazy, and has developed quite a gut. I couldn't get her to stick it out for the camera, but believe me--it's there.

Kronk's surgery

Kronk had a tumor removed from his back yesterday. We were hoping it was just a cyst (it was about the size of a marble), but it was a "light brown solid mass" which is on its way to a lab to determine if it's cancerous or not. So Kronk is still in the lead for our "most expensive dog" competition (see earlier posts on his broken toe & hernia). He has bounced back incredibly well from the surgery--he wasn't even groggy when I picked him up (I was disappointed).