Dan's first week of school!

Well, Dan has officially started college - he's a SunDevil! He had a good first week, while Bekah stayed home and waited for Fed Ex and UPS everyday! Dan has his new Apple laptop, and has already been 'geeking' it out quite a bit.

He also gets to ride the bus everyday to school, it saves us a lot of money in gas, not to mention the $500 for a parking pass (yes that is five hundred dollars!)!!!! Dan's favorite bus moment so far is when two guys started fighting over a seat, and the bigger guy finally got up in the small guy's face and said "I'm getting off at your stop today, esse" - and then did get off at his stop! Other than the bus rides, he seems to love school. He is immersed in art and computers, what more could he want in life?

Emmy is doing well - we call her our little monster. She is all over the place. Already she is walking around furniture and pulling herself to standing almost unassisted! She gets cuter everyday.... this is such a fun age for her to be in! Her personality is really showing. We will post more pictures soon.

Emmys going swimming!

Emmy loves going swimming. Though at first she didnt care for it, but now, she loves splashing everyone.

Emmy Vs. the Strawberry

Here are some pics of emmy having fun with her favorite food, strawberries. We have to get her dressed down to only her diapers due to the mess she makes. She is cute though.

Emmy is all over the place with her crawling and climbing anything she can get close to. She mastered crawling about two weeks ago, and within a week of that milestone, starting pulling herself up to a standing position. She is really on the move, giving no break for her parents to catch up! We weren't supposed to have to child proof everything for another couple months! Here is some footage of our little sweetie!

crawling like MAD!!!!

Since she turned 6 months old, Emmy started doing the belly flop and crawl thing. Now that shes 7 months old, shes at full speed and determined to explore. We figured that she would take a break and get used to this crawling thing for a while, but now it seems that she wants to go straight into pulling herself up and standing mode. She has two toy bins she likes to crawl over too and pull herself up to stand to look in. *Note: When I mean stand its a wobbley stance, arched over, but she progresses quickly.

Wish I had a picture of her in action, which I should probaly do, but I dont. A video file would be better I suppose.

Emmy likey strawberry

This little device that emmy is chewing on holds food in a tea bag like pouch. You put fruit (or whatever) in it and it filters out the seeds and chunks of food allowing only the juices to go through. Emmy seems to be enjoying her strawberry in this picture through the pounch and the other picture is the aftermath. Its a no cloths function when she is eating like this.

Daddy's little girl

I feel a bit remiss in my blogging efforts. Thought I would make a quick entry. Here is Emms, her Daddy's girl with headphones on - 'geeking it out'. She is doing well, so much fun to be with. She is an unusally great baby. We are so happy to have her in our family. I can't believe she is crawling already and has two teeth, she is probably going to be trouble as a toddler! She is learning to talk a little, knows MaMa, and she now knows who Mama is! Daddy's jealous.

We are so excited for our upcoming trips, Baton Rouge and Roger's wedding in Utah. It will be so good to see lots of family members. Can't wait.

Bekah