All the happenings in October that were just a part of every day life. Tracy, our amazing photographer, put together a picture fundraiser with local homeschoolers.  As a bonus, I got to watch her kids for several sessions.  J, was so sweet and has gotten so big.  I wrote up J’s birth story.  A night I won’t soon forget. G and M at the playground. Emmie with her big buddy, Josiah.  Josiah has been trying to teach Emmie to call him Bubba (even though the rest of us are only allowed to call him Josiah.  Not ‘Siah or Bubba).  She has been working hard, but no matter how hard she works.  He’s “Bubble.”  That was the first “B” word she said.  So, Bubble knows when he is being paged and always comes running with that smile. At the library. They both requested I take their picture. More time with the amazing C kids.  That’s twelve kids there.  And everyone was alive at the end too. M with Jimmy.  I don’t know who Jimmy is or who put him there, but I got a picture of Jimmy and M. Drinking and driving.

Super Ems being Super Cute. Malachi was working hard on putting together the perfect English muffin pizza.Emmie’s “Day-dee.”  She was insistent that she put her in the stroller by herself.
Turtles.  On a log.   Dragon fly.  On Minnie mouse’s head. Every so slowly, Emmie is becoming more interested in playing that having mommy right there beside her. A major feat…putting a hat on without help. Babies (Day-dees if you are certain cute toddler) are the thing around our house right now.  Not the all fabric kind.  Not the dolls that look like little girls.  Nope.  They must be baby dolls.  She loves to feed them, walk with them, give them their paci.   You name it.  She just loves babies.

Toys aren’t allowed at mealtimes.  But, one day Emmie had baby at the table, and we all agreed that “Day-dee” was not a toy anymore.