Emery's 1st BDay

Emery's first birthday was the beginning of this month. I can't believe he has already been a year. Time has gone by so fast. He is such a happy little boy. He loves to smile and laugh. He still sucks on two of his fingers. He is STILL crawling.....which I don't mind not having another walker yet! He likes to be wherever the brothers and sister are, including outside. He is still a momma's boy, although slowly preferring dad when he's home!!! He is my little sweetheart.

Here's his cake. It was Funfetti with Funfetti Chocolate Frosting (Riley helped me pick it out). The candles were put in by Riley, the middle ones, and Jaycee, the ones off to the left!

Not sure how lovely that looked!

Riley also helped pick out all of Emery's little presents. He had a fun time picking them out. A soccer sippy cup, Gerber milk drinks, and a bath turtle.

So, Emery REALLY liked his cake. He first started by picking at the frosting, then after I dumped out the cake onto his tray, he picked it up and started eating. Surprisingly, he didn't make that big of a mess. Most of it ended up in his mouth. He managed to down two peices!!

This was after his first peice. He kept looking in the bowl to find more!

The turtle! He enjoys putting it in his mouth during bath time!

Emery eating birthday cake!!! I love this little boy!

Sweet Dreams

Dannon and Emery share a room. One night we had put them in bed for the night. For the next 15 minutes or so there was a lot of noise coming from the room, and then silence. As I walked in to check on them I found out what was with all the commosion. Dannon had turned on the lights and decided it was a good time to pull out the dolls. Either that or the dolls were supposed to make them sleep better. Apperently Emery needed more than one doll. She must have kept throwing them in.

I'm afraid this is just the beginning of the times he will get to play dolls.

Shoveling Snow

Not exactly sure which time in the last couple of weeks we were out shoveling the snow, but it was one of the days it snowed (there have been more than one). Jaycee and Dannon like to play in the snow while I labor over the driveway. They climb up the mountain of snow and slide down....belly style, and the original sliding seems to be the popular ways of getting down. I know it's almost the middle of March, but the snow is still pretty fun!

Well, as I was finishing up I happened to walk past Dannon.....

So totally tired!

Here's Jaycee

And here's our yard that is FULLY covered and will be till June.

For those that are super sad they have no snow right now:

I know you are jealous!!!!

(that pile is as high as the garbage can)

Riley's 1st Wrestling Meet

Riley decided he wanted to try Little League Wrestling this year. So far they have had only one practice and today was his first wrestling meet. I thought he would be really nervous and decide he didn't really want to wrestle, but he was excited. For warm up he just kept running circles around the mat. He did pretty well for his first time, winning his first out of three matches.

Evanston High School

Scott and Riley warming up.

He had a scrap on his wrist that we taped over.

After awhile Dannon got a little tired.

Riley during his 2nd match of the day. This little kid Riley wrestled had the head lock technique down to a tee.

Riley got this really great participation medal that he's pretty proud of!