This is NOT normal...

For a few months Emmie has been jumping and within the last month she's started really getting of the ground. She's crazy and loves jumping but it's so not normal for a 16 month old! Micah didn't start jumping until around 2 years, something about muscle development in their calves. I guess Emmie has crazy strong calves because she's jumping around the house. I'm not usually one of those moms that say my kid is advanced or special but this is just so cute that she can do it, I took a video of she & Micah jumping today. Sorry about the music in the background, tv radio stations play junk sometimes! And sorry about the closeness of the video, they kept getting closer with each jump.

Now on to other things. We've had a busy week. We had Rosey & Isaac over yesterday to decorate cookies for fall. I made orange & black icing for them to decorate with and of course sprinkles! I had planned to make sugar cookies and let them use cookie cutters to cut out the cookies but that failed miserably. Here the kids are decorating and enjoying the cookies. It was a fun time, the kids play SO well together, Rosey & I get to sit and talk about grown-up stuff without the kids interrupting! It's been so nice to have them come over after Elijah goes to school and they are a huge reason that we love SA so much!
Emmie kept scraping the icing off with her finger and licking it. She eventually ate both cookies after she realized I wasn't adding anymore icing!

Micah eating his cooking, he loves sprinkles!
Isaac decided to make a cookie sandwich with tons of sprinkles. He did enjoy it but I'll spare you the picture of him chewing! Here's a cute one of him.

We are headed to a pumpkin patch with MOPS tomorrow, hopefully I can get cute pictures with both kids by myself, we'll see!
Zac's mom comes in town on Sunday to keep the kids because Zac & I are going on a cruise without kids! We are so excited but Micah's been feeling bad (threw up last night at dinner), so we're praying he stays well and can enjoy Granna being in charge!

It's fall...or at least on the calendar

It's finally fall and we are enjoying our new deck. The kids spend so much time outside, playing in the sandbox, climbing on the play on the slides and riding the tricycle! Micah absolutely loves riding in circles on the deck! The weather has been so nice that most of the time they're out there the back door is open and they come and go as they please. The deck has improved the backyard so much and removed the most dangerous part of our sloped yard! Zac spent a few hours this weekend finishing the stain/sealant on the deck. The deck looks so nice now and Zac's mom should be mailing the awning for the top soon and I'm excited to see everything together and finished!

Yesterday was a busy day around our house. Zac & I both had errands to run so we decided to each take a kid and get to it. This is a big deal around our house, Zac usually doesn't run errands with kids, he usually stays home with them so I can do it quickly or we run them all together. We've been trying to make sure Micah gets one on one time with Zac more regularly now that he's getting older. So...once all the errands were done it was onto lunch. We tried a restaurant called Chuy's and it was good. I got the enchilada special with a tomatillo sauce which was great and their salsa was also excellent...I'd go back again! Then we headed home to rest before going to Keira's 1st birthday party (K's mom is my cousin Amanda). During rest time Rosey called and asked me to ask Zac to go to the Spurs game with Jimmy! Stay with me, I know it seems like jr. high, but the boys don't usually talk, they let us keep their schedules! Zac was excited and would leave the party just in time for the game.

We went to Keira's house to celebrate her first birthday in grand style! They had a bounce house, pinata and all kinds of fun things for the kids to do and served food! Score...it was a great time for everyone. Micah had fun playing with all the kids and both Em & Micah loved the cake and candy from the pinata. Amanda had so filled the pinata that my kids came home with 2 bags of candy. I noticed her kid was absent during the candy activity...seems suspicious to me! I think I might hand out the candy at Halloween if Zac doesn't eat it all before then.

Just before the party ended Jimmy called to meet up with Zac & asked if he wanted to bring Micah too. I told Zac he could do whatever he wanted to but that Micah would probably love it. Well, he decided to take Micah to his first Spurs game! I'm not sure Micah knew what basketball was before the game he just knew if Elijah liked it had to be fun! As any good dad would, he fed Micah popcorn and sprite for dinner and they had a blast. Micah came home exhausted, fell into bed and tolerated me while I put on his jammies in his sleep! I've rarely seem him so tired but he said it was so fun! I enjoyed the quiet after I put Em to bed, an evening to myself was wonderful.
Today was quiet around here until, Zac finished the deck and watched some of the Cowboys' game. He spent a lot of time yelling at the Cowboys. It figures the Texans suck until we move, the Cowboys are awesome until we move and can actually see every game and then they suck. Go figure!

I bought a pumpkin this morning at Wal-mart for the kids & Zac to carve. Micah decided he wanted a scary face so he could "run from the room screaming". He's so funny...who knows where he came up with that one. The kids were too chicken to actually touch the messy pumkin insides for enjoyed watching Zac work. We named the pumkin Jack, of course! Here are a few pictures of the kids & Zac working on the pumkin.

The kids watching Zac cut the top off.

Emmie pointing out the eyes on Jack.

I'm not sure what was going on in the picture, but it looks like Em is saying "Jack stinks"!

Cute picture of the kids with Jack.

Micah hugging Jack.

Both kids hugging Jack...NOT fighting over him.

Emerson

Emmie is now 16 months old and surprised me yesterday by wanting to go pee in the potty. She kept going in there and wanting to take her pants off so I figured what's the harm? Well folks, she did it, she peed on the potty and not just once or twice...three times! Now I am not crazy thinking she's ready to train, but I will make sure I put her on there when she wants to try. We'll see maybe it will be easier than Micah.
Not much exciting is going around here. We went to MOPS today and the kids did pretty well. Micah did great of course and reported to have had "so much fun"! Emmie cried when I dropped her off but she made it the entire time and her teacher said she did well. She was crying by the time I got there but she was really tired and ready to go home!
Micah is still taking swim lessons on Tuesday mornings and he loves it! I love the school because they are awesome about teaching him the techniques to swimming before he can actually swim. He is learning all the parts to it and when he's ready to take off he'll do great!
That's all the news I can think of right now but I'll be back as I think of things!

A video and don't miss the new post below.

We had corn on the cob the other night and Emmie loves corn so I cut hers off the cob. Once she has cleared her ENTIRE plate of all food she was still whining for my corn. I decided to let her try to take a bite and she LOVED it. Here she is eating it right off the cob and watch she "winks" now and does it at Zac.

Finally an update!

I am finally finding time to update the blog since our family vacation. My computer is still at the shop. The motherboard was bad and they replaced it only to find out after I'd picked it up that the right side of the keyboard didn't work and I had to take it back. Upon taking it back they figured out that the new motherboard had a bad port which was keeping the keyboard from working properly! This is crazy, I just want my computer to work. The called the manufacturer (Dell) and were getting a new one and hopefully I'll get it back tomorrow. I never realized how much I loved my computer until I lost it and am forced to wait for Zac to finish with his or go up to our bedroom and use the desktop. I know it's not horrible but the desktop is very slow compared to my laptop and it's driving me crazy and making me not want to do anything on it. Enough complaining, but I am ready to have my computer back!

We spent last week at Canyon Lake with Zac's family, his parents, brother's family & grandparents. We usually spend the week at a lake house in Galveston but that had to be rescheduled at the last minute. Zac's dad found a house on Canyon Lake and it was a wonderful trip. We spent a lot of the week seeing the sights around New Braunfels & San Marcos and I left the week in awe of how many cool things there are to do within an hour of our house! For anyone who has not visited the Texas Hill Country you are missing out, it's simply beautiful. It reminds me of Durango, Colorado, hills, valleys and rivers. The kids enjoyed playing with their cousin Matthew and Zac's parents and I'm so thankful that Zac's grandparents are still able to travel to Texas and spend vacation with us so our kids get to know them and hopefully make enough memories with them they'll have their own memories of them.

There is not much else new around here. Emmie is finally growing more hair and I think it's adorable, especially after naps because it's often standing straight up in the air. I captured it on camera the other day...pictures to follow.

I'm sure there are things I'm forgetting to post about but I'll try to be better and post updates more often and when I think of things.

And now the pictures...
Emmie loving the batter from cheesecake! And "reorganizing" my coupons with a smile.

Family picture while hiking the dam at Canyon Lake.

Miss crazy hair upon waking from her afternoon nap! I guess she rolls around a little.

Micah & Granna roasting a marshmallow over the campfire.

Emmie hanging out at the campfire. She is signing more, as in more marshmallows please!

The boys "in jail" at the gates to the dam over Canyon Lake.

Micah is excited at the campfire but left proof of eating chocolate on his face.

Micah hanging in the tree overlooking the lake after our hike.

Micah swimming in the lake off the boat we rented, he loved jumping in and swimming around.

Granna, Micah & Matthew swimming near the boat.

Dad & Emmie swimming. She wasn't a big fan of it but loved sitting on the boat kicking her feet and splashing in the water.

Adorable family picture of Zac's parents & his grandpa (Papa) with the kids.


Only a few more pictures...you're almost done. We went to Zac's company party on Saturday afternoon and one of his friends was taking pictures and got a few great ones of the kids. These photos were taken by Jorge Moreno and I think he did a great job. Here's my favorite of Em.

Micah riding the pony.

Emmie taking her turn on the pony.