Emmalee was refusing to walk, wave bye-bye, talk, etc. and to tell you the truth i was starting to get worried. i was like why isn't she doing any of these things yet? i knew she was smart because when she was presented with something difficult I could see her thinking about how to figure it out. But that didn't mean that she didn't have some type of problem. I thought on all sorts of weird psychological problems late at night and inside worried what if she had a disorder? Well , now i know she was just being STUBBORN!! All of a sudden she decides to cross as many developmental milestones as possible at once. it was Like she says, "hey mom look at wat i can do!" She's walking everywhere, climbing on everything(YIKES), waving and saying sweet little phrases. IT's so precious to hear her. I guess it really is true that every child is different and that they kinda choose their right time to do those lttle things. Good thing I didn't freak out!

Good but busy!

well The boys are back to school! They both got fabulous teachers, the ones we wanted. I will be starting back at Little People's preschool on Aug. 31st. We had our meet the teachers night and I have 13 three year old in my class! Yikes! No really some of them are as sweet as can be. Devyn has football practice four times a week and games on sat. This is a fun sport but costly( time and money). Emmi is feeling better. Gabe is growing up so fast. ican't believe how well he reads for a first grader! He's zooming. Devyn of course is proud of hisself and know s he's a smarty-pants! Emmalee still has her stubborn streak. i'm not sure if this is a stage she is going through or just her personality? She is so independent and headstrong. She refuses to walk? I'm not sure why. She can, we've all seen her walk quite a ways but she refuses to? And god forbid when we have to tell her no. Oh such drama?!?!? I'm guessing that is because she is a little girl but boy are we going to have a time with her.
i kind of can't wait until fall break. i know already but we are always going and it will be so nice to slow down and have some time with my beautiful family! These are the good times is what my grandma always says. She's right.

Emmi's first birthday

Yesterday we celebrated Emmalee's first birthday! It was by far the best out of all of my kidos first birthdays. Meaning no arguements or hateful comments made by anyone and everyone got along perfectly. i really enjoyed myself and Emmi was great. I was worried about her attention span on opening all the gifts but she did wonderful. She got so many new little gifts and all her family was there and lots of little ones. I got a ton of pictures! Then when we bring her home she crashed and the next thing i know is she wakes up with a 102 fever?!?! All day long today she still has had the fever. The tylenol is just kinda lowering it a little bit but it still is there and she is miserable! I don't know how that happened, she went from great to not so good!! People keep saying maybe she's teething, but that's a little high to be teething. Hopefully she will feel better tomorrow. People keep telling me i need to open my own party planning business because i throw the best party's around. Whether it is for a boy or girl or both, adults, children whatever; people seem to have the most fun at our parties and they have the best themes and the most unique ideas. i would love to but i do not have the time. Maybe some day....

totally bummed!!

I hate to argue with family. I recently argued with someone I am close with and we are both married adults so try to keep our family's out of it. It seems to go deeper than that though, I have some "issues" with him about certain things now and we aren't so close anymore. Not the way we used to be, will we ever be again? Or once you grow up and have your own family and life does that mean we change and will never be as we were? That's a sad concept. i know that we both have our priorities in check and our families come first but things didn't used to be this way with us. When we were young things were so simple and we didn't have to worry about the adult issues, now what if he doesn't like my husband or if i don't get along with his wife, where does that leave us? You change when you get married and have your own children, your life gets better. Does it mean you have to say goodbye to your childhood relationships.. all of them? To make any sense of this you would really need to read between the lines. Not every part of growing up is good and this is one of those things.
Here's to good times and bad that we once had and will still have.