March 30th brought a big Emmie Anniversary. It was a year ago March 30th that Emmie had her halo removed. We celebrated with our traditional cookie cake! It’s still so amazing to look back and see how far God has brought her in her NF journey already.
April 27th brought another anniversary. It’s been two years since Emmie had her first ever surgery (and the first surgery for any of our kids). I can’t believe it’s been two years since our NF journey became so much more than a mild case. But, we are so grateful that it has been two years watching her grow and get stronger as each day passes.
Once again…a cookie cake (that I whistfully changed from a three to a two).
We also hiked down to Pike Place. This was a vat of fresh cheese. I really wanted it but my pregnancy belly said, “nope…you don’t.”
A scalpie for Facebook. This is an ongoing joke about my parents who are also known as the self-proclaimed “Scalpie Pros.”
This girl! 
And this young lady!
A very happy Chi!
Super Ems and her brace with her baby and baby’s new brace.
Emmie loved sliding with Ace.
And playing squeeze in the cubbies!
I missed PJ day at Bruster’s but the kids and Mark carried on the tradition.
Zoe was accepted into the Foreign Language Honor Society for excellent work in Spanish 1 and 2 (I did not include all of her other languages on duolingo, mango and memrise).
I managed to eek out two pies for pie day….first trimester struck but I pushed through.
Someone became toofless in March.
Emmie learned that silly faces are fun to make in windows.
When Malachi got his birthday gift from us, Ceili Rain found one and asked if she could do that for her birthday.
On her actual birthday, she got one something from us and a little something from her cousins.
Papa and Grandmere got to celebrate the day before her birthday.
They got a great tour of the Kennedy Space Center.
They also got to tour the Wycliffe Bible Translators campus. The boys were quite impressed and Zoe was very jealous.
One of their last stops was to visit cousins. These are special cousins to us as they have been praying for us and Emmie and our adoption for so long. So grateful for Facebook to get to know them and then for an opportunity for Liam to visit them and see all of their amazing plane memorabilia!
As Facebook is wont to do, an ad appeared in January that grabbed my attention. I totally succumbed to the click bait and fell in love. With my new found fondness, I created a 
Emmie pregnant with a ball. Funny as it is, this was right before we found out I was pregnant. She cracked me up walking around with this ball under her shirt.
Born a fighter and cute!
Getting ready for a night at the theater. Our local college put on Camelot and four of the nine wanted to go see it. They all enjoyed it and only Malachi slept through the second half.
All kinds of cute.
Static Slide Hair times 3.
I took four of the kids to see Winter Jam this year. They occupied themselves in line by drawing in the sand.
Everyone enjoyed it but Silas fell asleep towards the end.
Speaking of falling asleep. She is precious when she crashes on me.
Zoe won the t-shirt design contest for her local AHG. They’ll be modifying it to work on an actual shirt but I thought she did an amazing job.
Two cute kiddos reading books. Note Emmie’s crossed leg to hold up her book!
Emmie rocking her new outfit made by moi!
Mark took Zoe, Ace, and four of Zoe’s friends to cash in on her birthday gift….a trip to Mastermind Escape Games. They had a blast and escaped with five minutes to spare.
I had to get Emmie this dress that reads, “I’m a super hero.” She totally rocked it too!
Are we excited or what?! Actually, she went through a phase in February where we would say, “Smile.” And this was the result. We now get a half a smile.
A quick picture before we hit the road to go back home…my poor photography skills.
The next day, though, I caught her silliness along with a Bryant photobomb.
