Emmie had a parent observation class in April. We love seeing her light up as she dances. She doesn’t know that it’s a therapy. She doesn’t realize that it’s to help her back not bend or give her strength to grow. 
All she knows is that it’s forty-five minutes of visiting with friends and dancing. And that’s good enough for her.
Late night run to Walmart and the girls just HAD to try on these giant heads.
Emmie was “reading” a book to Tobin.
And now we have a student driver.
Cool Dude.
Twinsies on date night.
Tobin with his buddy K. She’s over a month younger than him and is getting bigger than him.
Tobin met the twirly bug. He was shocked.
Bryant knows the love between Starbucks and me.
This isn’t quite how you’re supposed to drink from a cup Sweet T.
At care group one night our pastor was talking and Tobin thought he was the funniest thing ever.
Before braces…
After braces.
In which Emmie learns to not leave her glasses on the floor.
I detest these tops to our grains and oats. Ace, Bryant and several others attempted, in vain, to ope the lid. Drill. Hammer. Wedge. Nope. Mark finally was able to work his magic and get it off.
Tobin’s first food! It’s safe to say this kid LOVES to eat.
It’s safe to say that mama is Tobin’s favorite person right now. He does love his siblings and daddy…but Mama is the only one he’ll reach for. Maybe it’s because I’m so tasty…
So sweet and unassuming, but then…
He thought that was so funny!
Might as well go for her chin again!
We were able to block out enough time to run off to the zoo. Mark even met us halfway through our trip.
This girl has all the love and none of the fear of animals. 
We make our membership worthwhile by riding the carousel as many times as possible.
Yes. We did the traditional lion picture. One day, I’ll find all of these pictures and put them in a book!
Ceili Rain celebrated #9 with a cookie cake and our normal busy-ness. We are so blessed that God gave us CeiRai for our family. We also celebrated a week before by going to see The Greatest Showman at the theater.
On a sick day, we watched a baking competition that featured cookie cakes. So, we decided that would be a fun challenge for me. It turned out great.
Ceili Rain’s Gift List:
Want: Skeleton lab kit
Need: Outfit
Do: Nerf Gun
Read: A Wrinkle in Time Quintet
Malachi celebrated #6 on the day we left Wilderness at the Smokies. It was a wild crazy day but he had a good time. 
This was the first time for decorating a cake outside of my home. I think I did a pretty okay job considering I wasn’t at home with all my normal stuff.
Malachi’s Gift List:
Want: Dig it toys
Need: Flashlight/headlalmp
Do: Nerf gun (there’s a theme going here)
Read: Sugar Creek Gang books
For Christmas/New Year’s this year, we gave the kids a trip to Wilderness at the Smokies. Four days of a water park at the end of the winter? Yes! We rented a villa and it was wonderful!
Right on the golf course and a short drive to the water park.
We decided to go out to eat for one night to Mama’s Farmhouse. Yummy eats and fun activities for the kids.
Three littles as snug as a bug.
It wasn’t all water play, we spent a good bit of time hanging out in the arcade too.
One night, the guys took a trip to the knife store. It turned out to be a pretty cool store.
Ace won the Most Amazing Pool Hair Award.
Mark and I snuck away for a lunch (and trip to the cast iron store). We chose Paula Deen’s Family Restaurant. It was absolutely outstanding. We were stuffed and enjoyed every single bite. We also got to watch snow fall (not stick, thankfully).
On the way home, we discovered Lay’s face bags. Freaky, weird, and good for a quick laugh.
This was a fun trip before all the last stretch for our school year.
Let’s start off these fun random pics with our chunky monkey at four months! Ya’ll, those chubby arms are the sweetest.
Liam took a coding class and loved it. I’ll be looking for more for him to learn from.
Malachi wanted to learn to read and pretty much just taught himself with pretty much a smidge of help from me. 
Headbanz by “Emmie Rules” included her telling daddy what was on his head band and then telling him to tell her what was on hers.
But then it was naptime.
And naptime for Tobin too.
Date night included Cinnabon Delights.
Lulu the Guard Dog.
Tobin has no problem with snuggles and kisses from Lulu.
A Your Pie opened up in our area. We got in on the soft opening and fell in love. Definitely a treat.
Check out these eyelashes.
Emmie had an ophthalmology appointment in February. I’ll post a more detailed update after her MRI but basically, she has strabismus and needs to wear glasses to try and strengthen the eye turning in. We think she is adorable in these glasses!
Ceili Rain got a cake decorating kit from Ge and Granddaddy for her birthday. This was her first creation.
Beautiful weather means playing games with neighbors.
Emmie drew this face alone. We have several little artists in our family and Emmie is showing she fits right in.
We traveled to Papa & Grandmere’s for a weekend visit in February.
Cornhole was a fun activity.
Tobin got lots of cuddles.
Mark’s Aunt G and Uncle D came over for a visit. Emmie taught Aunt G cards.
Emmie enjoys playing games according to her rules. With games like Uno, we’ve started teaching her the real rules…but some games are still a little much for her. So, she gets to play by Emmie rules. She basically tells us where to move and who wins and when it ends. Ace got roped into playing with her. He was so patient and played along very well.
Ace also enjoys toting Tobin around and we’ve had to fight him off a time or two.
Emmie’s Fusionversary fell on a visiting day. Mark picked out the perfect princess cake and she was over the moon excited. This was fusionversary #2! Two years of Emmie with a straight neck. What a beautiful blessing from God!
A neighbor was working towards a makeup certification and opened up a makeup class for free. But first, we had to cleanse our face.
Boy was that interesting. And then we got all makeupified. We both learned a lot about make up application and had fun to boot.
