Make sure your kids know you love them

My dad's best friend in whole wide world, Ken, had a son that worked for Cantor Fitzgerald in the World Trade Center. He past away ten years ago, on Sept 11th. His parents are incredible people with amazing faith, and a great amount of friends that help and support them.

This article was written about Ken and his sons.
I think on this this day we should take Andy's advice and "put a bear hug" on our kids and tell them we love them.

while you are praying for all the victims of 9/11 today, pray specially for the William's family. I know they would appreciate it. As a mommy I could only imagine that even though it's was 10 and 20 years ago since their sons past away, it's still hard to get out of bed each day.

I'm going to - as we say- squeeze my family's guts out.

One smart cookie!

We are at the doctor (poor emory has a double ear infection). Here's Emory spelling her name!!!( Kelley, does this tune sound familiar?!) she's a genius!!

In the waiting room in her new tunic I made her- my new favorite thing to make the girls!

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Game day

(pics are from my phone, so they arent the best)

We are ready for football.....


We hung our auburn flag( the neighbor has her Alabama flag up-eeww!)


I hung our new auburn cheerleader on the door- so cute!)


Made Emory an auburn shirt!


emory's friend Kate has a bday coming up so had to make a cute shirt too



Couldn't leave Christian out, so I made her this cute flower shirt. Love this appliqué! I'm going to be an aunt (again) soon, and if it's a girl I think she would look adorable in a little daygown with this on it!!)

Papaw's 17th birthday!

While Christian says I'm 84, she says Papaw is 17!






This past weekend, my parents came up onThursday to visit and celebrate my dad's bday. CC and I went to school while Emory got to spend the day swimming with gran and papaw at their hotel.











We spent the weekend swimming, eating, shopping, and getting a mani/pedi.






Gran bought CC some new boots that she loves and wants to wear with everything! she does look pretty cute in them! We went on a hunt for simple Keds but I can't find her size anywhere! So, this weekend I am searching everywhere in Bham since I have been informed by my "rule follower" daughter that she is not allowed to wear shoes that don't cover her toes!





We rode the merry-go-round and, of course, Emory names her horse "diamond diamond"! :):)

We had a fun fun weekend with gran and papaw! Thanks for coming up.
Then, starting Tuesday Emory decided that she was done wearing diapers and has been wearing big girl panties all day, every day! She even goes into the bathroom, gets her stool, puts her potty seat on the toilet, and goes potty "all by myself"! She even goes poo-poo by herself- although I need to teach her to wait for us to wipe or at least get more than one square of toilet paper!!! She will even wake up in the morning dry! Keep it up Emory:):):)
AND I am about to be a second cousin!! My cousin (who is more like my sister) is going to have her baby girl Monday, if not before! I'm beyond excited...only if they didn't live in Texas than I would be there in a heart beat. I'm dying to see/hold this little baby:):)

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Still loves it!

Last Friday, Christian was the circle time helper at school. She absolutely loved every second of being the "teacher". So as soon as we got home on Friday, we had to play teacher.


She put stickers on the floor to show us where to sit and we had to sit crisscross applesauce ( or Indian style for those us that were in kindergarten in the 80's!). We each got to make up our own names. Bryan was 'Bobby". I was "Sally" and get ready....Emory named herself "Diamond Diamond"-( where the hell did she come up with that!!!)... As you may be able to tell Diamond Diamond was not following the rules and 'practicing respect" as Ms. Corridor (and where did that come from?!!) said.


So, ms. Corridor was getting upset.......


And sent Diamond Diamond to sign the OOPS book!! I have a feeling that this might not be the last time Diamond Diamond or Emory will have to sign an OOPS book!!!

Pooped

Christian fell asleep at 5:00 yesterday and didn't wake up until 5:45 this morning!!!! She was pooped!!
AND speaking of poo.......
Emory poo-pooed in the potty last night!!!!!! We danced around like crazy people and have an "I pooped" note on her bag to tell her teachers!!!!




With them waking up so early, the girls got breakfast in bed!

First Day of "BIG" School!!!

Well, WE SURVIVED!!!! Okay, fine- I survived.... Christian was so excited and had absolutely no problem with starting a new school! I only shed a few tears and it helped that I work at the same school and didn't have time to boo-hoo b/c I had to help all the other kindergartners find their classrooms.

Bryan and I spent the night decorating the kitchen and room to get everyone (me) ready for the big day!

Christian and I made little cups full of candy bars and wrote "I hope you have a 'sweet' first day of school" for her teachers in her class. She was really excited to give them this morning!

I put balloons at the foot of her bed to help with getting up in the morning- she's NOT a morning person, so this helped!!!

My baby's 'First Day of School" picture!

CC and Mrs. Morton!

And here she is two minutes after being in the car. She had so much fun today!

We just all piled into Emory's bed and told our favorite parts of the day. CC's highlights of the day- being the door holder, building blocks on the table, going to the playground, and going to the kitchen (lunchroom).

I LOVE being at the same school as Christian! It's really fun to see/hear about her throughout the day! Ya know, I think my favorite part about being together is that I understand everything she is telling me about her day! I know how the school works, what the playground looks like, the yellow hair and brown hair lady in her class that she is talking about, how fun her PE teacher is...all the little details! So glad we are spending her first year together! After spending so much time analyzing and praying about where my Christian should spend her kindergarten year ( I honestly felt like it was one of the biggest decisions I have ever had to make!!), I think I 100% made the right choice. When I am 200 years old, I'll love being able to remember being with her everyday in kindergarten. It sure does make going to work easier. Now if only my school had a preschool program for Emory and an insurance office for Bryan I would be one happy mama/wife!!