Emry is 9 months!!!

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 Emry turned 9 months yesterday!!!  Where did that time go?  She is 17 lbs 4 oz (25%) and 26.5 in (25%).

This month, Emry has:

*learned how to clap.

*gotten 2 teeth on the bottom.

*loves to stick her tongue out!!!

*crawls REALLY fast and pulls up on everything.

*doesn't like baby food, but eats almost all table foods.

*still goes to bed really late, but typically sleeps until Leah throws toys on her head in the morning.

*refused (still) to take a bottle.  Some nights it would be nice if she would.

*really started laughing a lot....at everything.  So cute!!  Particularly at her sister.

*is SO sweet!!!  She is a super happy baby (except in the evenings), and loves giving cuddles and being with momma!!  She also LOVES when Daddy comes home to play with her!!  Her eyes light up when she sees him.

We love you, sweet baby!!!

Odds and Ends of January!!

Emry loves her piano.  She plays it all the time.

Sister love.

Daddy love.

Sweet girls.

Fun with Daddy!

Cute baby!

Silly nugget.

Sweetheart.

I love this silly baby!

Angel girl.

I want to photoshop Leah's hand out, because I LOVE this picture!!!

Sisters!!

This is as good as they cooperate for pictures!

This is my new favorite of Leah.  So precious!!!

Emry's first time with crayons.  Tasty!

We all got pretty, pretty toes.

Coming through!

Such a happy baby!

Jumper!!

"Help, I can't get out!"

You can kind of see her tooth!!!

This is what happens when Leah doesn't take a nap.....

"Let me out!"

Leah said, "You can watch me, Dolly." and then plopped her down.  Then she said to her Dolly, "You can look at your toes if you want to!"

Happiness!

Yummy toys!!

Christmas

I don't have much time....the kids are getting restless.....so you don't get many words, but you can enjoy some of my favorite pictures from December/Christmas!!
We were lucky to spend Christmas (2 weeks) living in luxury.....bathtubs, laundry, dishwashers.....while taking care of two big dogs.  It was a nice little getaway from our normal life!

Cute sitter!!

Santa Clause at the Mall.

Reindeer when we picked out a Christmas tree.

A fun merry-go-round.

Emry wasn't a fan of getting a Christmas tree!

First time getting into my make-up.  For as often as I do make-up (twice a year!), I'm surprised Leah put the mascara in the right place!!

Christmas tree #1 at our apartment!

Leah insisted on doing our dishes.  She got a little stool and ran things under the water.....a few days later was Christmas and I gave her her very own sink to do her own dishes!!  Big hit!!

An attempt at family Christmas pictures!!

It was cold.  The kids didn't cooperate very well!

Still cute!

"I freezin' momma!!"

A little smile out of Leah.

We used this one for our Christmas card!!!  To those who didn't get one......"Merry Christmas!!!"

Standing, if there is something to hang on to.

Leah having a special moment to get out of bed and cuddle with daddy while he studied!!  What a lucky girl!!

I put this bucket on her head and she froze for 30 seconds!!  Ha ha!!

Leah found some lotion during nap time!!

Sweet sleeper!

Christmas at the Christensen's.  And umbrella!!!!  Cool!

Helping shovel snow at the Thornbrue's.

She scraped snow off the lights.  So cute!!

Sleepy sweetheart!

Playing with pegs and beads.

Sweet!

Angel girl!

Waking up in time for Christmas with the Thornbrue's.

Opening a present with Grandpa!

Emry is good at opening presents on their own.

Cool flute present from Aunt Lisa.

Baby doll and cradle from Grandma and Grandpa!

Emry likes it, too!!  (And matching jammies!!)

Christmas tree #2 at the house/dog sitting job!!

Ginger

Armani

Emry became a quick crawler at this house.  She disappeared a few times!!!

2 more days until Christmas!!

This 'turtle face' also learned about stairs!!  And pulling up on things!  So tricky!!

Sweet sisters!!

Christmas Eve.

New Christmas Jammies!!!

Santa Clause came!!!  Doll house and little Piano!!

Sacks for Christmas breakfast.....I forget I can be called 'Mom' in my own little family!!!

Stockings!!

We had to wake Emry up to come do Christmas.

Coming to the Christmas tree!!

WOW!

Cool things!!

Just her size!!

I love the back of sitting babies!!!

So many fun things in the stockings!!

Toothpaste and tooth brushes are a tradition!!!  Good thing Santa believes in good oral hygiene.  

Reading the Christmas story after stockings.

First present!!

She doesn't stay sitting very long!

Cute owl....except, we decided that the owl is Leah's (she was an owl for Halloween last year) and Emry is the turtle (because she does turtle face!)

Cute headband!

Leah got overwhelmed with the amount of new things....she kept wanting to open each toy and play with it, but we said, "No, open another one!!"

Sewing machine!

One of these things is not like the others.  Leah left her Dolly behind and grabbed an orange for "Mommy, Daddy, and We-ya"

Pulling up on things....time to lower the crib.

Silly face!!

An attempt at pictures of my kids in front of the Christmas tree.  They were not cooperative.

Tongue.

Not sitting......but still cute!

Santa hats!

Cute anyways!

Precious!

That tongue!!  I love it!

:)

Leah in a basket!

Goofy! 

I love this girl!

Too cute!

Long eyelashes!

Christmas baby!

Eating!

Reading a story to her Hippo!

Taking the dogs to Dry Canyon....you can't say the 'w' word or they go crazy!! (walk)

Fun, fun!

Leah and Alex!

Kristen and Emry!

I looked out the back and saw 2 floating orbs......it was the top of the temple, but the fog was so thick and low to the ground, it looked like floating balls of light!!  Kinda cool!

Her face in the reflection!!!!!!!  :)

Well.....a happy Christmas was had by all!  Now my kids are super fussy....time to get ready for bed!  Here's for a wonderful New Year!!