Dublin Irish Festival

Friday evening we decided to venture up to Coffman Park in Dublin for the Irish Festival. We arrived right as the festival was opening so we got great parking and first dibs on merchandise.. not that we bought anything! Ha. It was fun to do something a little different and Emmalyn enjoyed it too. She did however lose her favorite toy, Mr. Turtle! We back tracked all of our steps and couldn't find him anywhere. Just the day before I had told Nate that we could never lose that turtle! We had a few "snacks," Nate had a bahama mama from Schmidts and I had a chicken kabob sandwich from the North Market stand. We all shared (even Em) some ribbon fries. We got to see all the Celtic canines including a huge Irish wolfhound! We stayed for a few hours and made sure we saw everything. It started to get very busy so we decided to head home and call it a night!

tired but still smiling!

Mulli and Emmalyn are becoming fast friends! Despite a few nips of Em's feet Mulli insists on taking, things between the two are going well! Today Em and I made a peach cobbler and Mulli decided to join in the fun and take a seat under Em's activity seat. After a few "No's" and spanks Mulli finally stopped biting Emmalyn's feet! Em thought it was funny though. The little nibbles didn't seem to bother her a bit. It's been a pretty good day for both, considering Mulli cried every single hour last night and Emmalyn woke up at 4:30am due to the horrible thunder and lighting storm we had! Nate and I are beyond tired but it's nice to have a good day and have the "kids" getting along after such an exhausting night!! I guess there's always a silver lining!

9 Months Old!!!

I can't believe we are saying "happy 9 months!" This is just crazy!!! She is changing so quickly we can hardly keep up...literally! She is crawling all over the place. We will put her down in the middle of a room and walk away for five seconds and she will be rounding the corner in the hallway! As you have read from previous posts, she has become quit the climber as well. She is now learning to destroy her room (no more nice and neat!) She knows the difference between Sami and Mulli and thinks they are both the funniest thing in the world! Her laugh is contagious and her smile will make you cry. She is the most beautiful thing, inside and out to us. We can't get over how incredibly blessed we are to have Emmalyn in our lives! I could brag on this child forever (after all, I am her Mom!) She is the reason for smiling and learning everyday how to change ourselves for the better. We just gush over this little lady! (if you couldn't already tell.) haha!

silly morning girl

Here is how I found Emmalyn this morning! Good thing we dropped that crib last week!!

wild child

Now that Emmalyn is on the move she is discovering so many things! Last week we had to drop her crib (sad for me but necessary.) She was starting to pull on her crib bumper trying to climb out! We decided we better do it now before it's too late! She is instantly energetic when she wakes in the morning... kicking her mattress, her crib and crawling to play with her monster that sleeps in her bed. She also discovered something new to play with the other day. Her cords to her monitor and her sound machine! She woke us up yesterday morning trying to do a mountain climb up her crib by holding on to a cord!!! This child needs supervision now constantly! She is also starting to pull up to her knees by grabbing a hold of things too! Look out world... here comes crazy Em!

Hurray!

Mulli slept through the night for the first time last night! With a lot of patience and praying it finally happened! She's got potty training down as well! Not bad for having her for just 2 weeks!!

One week stronger!

Well, we survived the first week with Mulli! She has come out of her shell and has gotten use to everyone. That being said... she chews, barks, whines, and gets into things she shouldn't 95% of the time! Her puppiness has come out! I have to say she is actually harder than Emmalyn was at 7 weeks old! She is getting up about every 2 to 3 hours crying to go use the potty. She is making a little progress though... She is crying less after we put her back in her cage. The first couple of days she would cry for a half an hour or more because she didn't want back in her bed! This is very hard and frustrating when you have an infant in the house who is trying to get a good nights sleep. Mulli had not woken Emmalyn up once until last night. She whined pretty much every hour on the hour and then at 5am woke poor Em up! Needless to say we are exhausted. As I have told a few of you... NEVER get a puppy while you have an infant in the house!!On a lighter note... She is truly a sweet puppy and is extremely cute!! (It's the only thing keeping her alive at this point!) hahaha! I told mom I should have never prayed for patience all those years because God is making me learn in a way that I am sure he is getting a chuckle out of!!!