Emmy Anne is 9 whole months!!!

Baby girl is 9 months old, and kind of a new lady!  Our usually crabby, only likes mom girl is now an independent woman, er sort of!

At the doctor's on the 21st you weighed 18 pounds 7 ounces, and were 28 inches long.  Both are perfectly average.

I just put you in 12 month clothes because the 9 month ones were getting a little short with your ghetto cloth booty.

Your sleep has improved greatly this month with you sleeping in your own bed all night, usually 7 until 7 give or take an hour.  Two naps is your normal, but 1 has happened and so does 3 occasionally.

You got a tooth!!  The bottom right came in on the second after a couple cranky days.  She liked the frozen teethers and meds, plus being held.  (The second tooth popped through on the 27 with much less issue).

Eating was possibly the biggest change this month with food actually being swallowed!!!  Your favorites are bananas, cheerios, and strawberries.  Still not a huge veggie fan, but you'll get there, I'm just so happy you are not longer puking!

You are signing all done, and are talking up a storm.  You say Dada for both me and dad, say all done, Ba I think is brothers and ball, and you surprise us all the time with repeating what we say.  It is so cool!  Still mama would be nice...

Your dislike for dogs is still going strong.  Well you like looking at them, you just don't like having them near you, especially if their wet noses touch you:)

Your crawling is amazing, and you are so fast!  You like playing with all of your brothers big boy toys and you love balls.  You've crawled all the way up the stairs a few times and only seem to bobble at the top, thank goodness I'm there.  The boys have been really good about keeping the doors shut so you can't fall down the basement stairs and the gate closed so you can't go upstairs. 

I think you will be walking soon as you pull up on everything and let go or hold on with only one hand.

Another good month Em, what's the next month going to hold for you?  I can't wait to see!! Love ya baby girl!

A day in the life...

I wrote this a while ago and just never finished!  So the first part was written almost two months ago, while the last part was this week:)

I saw a couple people do this and have been thinking about it for awhile.  So here it goes...

2:30 AM - Emmy wakes up for her first feeding (this is a great night!) Seth gets her out of her crib and brings her into our bed

5:30 AM- Another feeding.... She's still in our bed.  Seth wakes up.

6:30- Boys wake up and play in our bathroom as he gets ready, Em and I sleep, kind of. Seth takes boys downstairs to watch a show and drink their morning milk, yep still do it, haters:)

7:15- Emerson wakes up and she comes into the bathroom with me to play as I brush my teeth, etc.  We head downstairs.

7:30- Change Em, get breakfast going.  Oatmeal for John, Colin and I, cheerios and banana for Em.
Colin ended up eating 3, half serving, all that sleeping made him hungery!

8:00- Colin and I clean up the kitchen, he vaccuums while I clean off the island. 

8:30- Boys get into a squabble over a paper pizza, John hits, and heads to time out for 8 minutes. 

8:45- We all head up to play in the playroom.  I organize the leinen closet while everyone plays. 

8:50- Nurse Emmy and put her down for a nap.  Boys and I head downstairs.

8:55- Boys and I do jellybean math, eat snack of apples and jellybeans! 




9:05- Nurse Em again and put her down again, this time she falls asleep.

9:15- Finish jellybean math, boys clean up crayons, while I unload and load the dishwasher.

9:30- Boys get out and play with color wonder books. Man I love these things! I start typing this.

10:00- Colin starts on puzzle. John joins him.  I surf the internet and then help.  They finish I take a picture, and then John wrecks it and punches Colin, back to timeout he goes.

10:20-Emmy wakes up...

10:30-12:00-PUZZLES!!!  The boys are crazy for them right now!  I try and keep Em out of their way, with only a little success

12:00-12:30- Lunch, John eats a tuna sandwich and apples, Colin eat Mac and Cheese, apples, a pepper, strawberries, the rest of John's sandwich.  Emerson eats cherrios and a sweet potato fry.

12:45 Em goes down for a nap, while the boys watch a show.

1:30 The boys create artwork for Mimi

2:30 Mimi arrives saving the day!!

2;45-5:15- I work at the high school with my cheerleaders, just like I do every Monday and Wednesday

5;15-5:45: Get home and get dinner started

6;00 Seth gets home, and dinner is ready! 

6-6:30 Dinner

6:45 We all play in the play room, football, crawl after Emmy, puzzles, and kitchen

7:15 Em goes to bed.

7:45 Boys are in bed for the night

8:15 Boys fall asleep

8:15-10 Seth and I watch tv this night, but other nights we have home dates with cards and wine, we go to bed early, or we work on a project:0)

I hope you've enjoyed our day in the life!!

It's the little things...

* Colin's been playing lots of cowboy.  His (stick) horse's name is Lucky and rain boots are used, as are strawberry sunglasses, a 12 month cowboy hat, a Cars wallet and a bright blue bandanna.  All of it together makes him a cowboy.  Sometimes he's mean and sometimes he's nice, and all of it is hysterical!  We only have one pair of rain boots, so if John plays, he wears high heels, I love it! The picture is blurry, but I had to be stealth, he gets self conscious :)  You get the idea!!


*John loves crafting and is always creating something.  He will tell me he needs fabric scraps, paper, more glue, almost all day. 

*Emerson is SUCH a mama's girl, and wants me to hold her all day long.  Or if I get to put her down I need to sit right next to her or she cries, big wails, I am over this...  And she still doesn't want to eat in a traditional sense, she likes to hold her own food, but doesn't chew so there is lots of gagging.  Again, over this.  She is however sleeping big chunks again, I needed this in a big way.

Seth and I have been working hard on the house, making major and minor adjustments to make it just right. It's been hard making this house feel like our home.

 We've painted our bedroom, and are using what we have to create a new feel.  I am LOVING the yellow pillow I made!! (it's not really that off center, I just made the bed funny)

 And then there's the kitchen!  After almost 4 months of off and on work, it's really close to being done!!!  Only lighting and painting to go...  The back splash really tied things together!! 

 Crazy boys sitting at the new island/table.  It's my favorite part!

With all the snow and cold we've had we have gotten creative with playing inside!

Emmy in the playroom, playing with shaker eggs

Seth hates when we do this, but alas, it's a Rhoades tradition!!  A little whipped cream never hurt anyone....

Em's hair is getting SO long!  These are pig tail buns, AFTER a hair cut!  I'm practicing my braids for the summer!!

In other news... Colin has learned to ride a "big" bike, which will make this summer so much fun!

 John had surgery that went very well, everything has healed nicely, and we are hopeful that we are done with ear infections for good with him!

 Seth and I are still very much in love and enjoy date now and then when family will take the kiddos (THANK YOU FAMILY!!!!)

 Emerson has rolls, like lots of them :) Even though she weighs much less then her brothers, her smaller statue means lots of kissable baby chunk. 

SO there's a quick update, with some recent pictures of everyone.  Sorry for the lack of blog posts, but we've been busy, I hope you enjoyed the catch up!