Birthday (& party) weekend

To start with, I wanted to show this video from about 2 weeks ago of Emmy's first big girl bath in the tub. Plus Bo "playing" (dunking) her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMYGtbNSs9o

Then 2 more videos of the kiddos
Bo singing his favorite song ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-A3az7odKw

Emmy singing and eating her veggies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwyrCV8I8C4

We started off the extended weekend Wednesday night. Mommy official last day at Reed. She was so excited. Then Daddy took Thursday and Friday off for birthday celebrations. Thursday was Bo's real birthday. We promised him a pancake breakfast. He wanted blueberry ones.

Since it was a crappy rainy day out, we headed to the St. Louis City Museum. It was very crowded with busloads of kids for field trips. Aunt Heather and Grammie met us there. Bo played in the balls, played in sponges, climbed on the skateboard ramps, under the many tunnels (I think Mommy thought we lost him for a second b/c those tunnels can get very small and dark), watched a mini-circus, climbed up some more obstacles, and went down some slides. He had a blast. He did not want to leave. We finally convinced him around 1pm to go have lunch. We went to Ozzie's new sports bar on Washington. Bo liked the baseballs every where and Ozzie doing a flip. He ate french fries, noodles, and cookies. He opened Yee-Ha presents. He was exhausted from all the excitement. I think he was asleep in the car before we even were on highway 40 towards home (or Bo's house as he calls it).

After his long nap, Mommy made him one of his favorite meals spaghetti. Needless to say, he made quite a mess. Then he opened his presents from Mommy, Daddy, and Emmy. You'll never guess what we gave him, cho-chos. He was so excited. He could hardly contain himself. They were mountains, tunnels, bridges, cho-chos, and tracks. We stayed up until 10:30pm that night playing. There were so many of them that the table was not big enough so we had to lay them all out on the floor in the living room. Here is a little video I made of the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFa2KTMkgbQ

Then on Friday, it was Daddy's birthday. We had to go to the doctor for both kiddos check-up in the morning then we headed to the park. We ate lunch with Tracey, Will, and Kinley. We played on the playground with the slides and swings of course. After nap time, we had Bo's family birthday party. We barbequed cheeseburgers, Mommy made french fry casserole, ate cookie cake, and then more presents.
Here are some photos of the event

Saturday was his closing ceremony day at little gym. Needless to say Bo was running a little tired after the previous two days.
He still managed to do some flips

and hang "on the monkey bars"

Then received his medal in front of everyone on the podium

Sunday we went to a wedding in the morning and here is a family photo

After a long night at the wedding, we managed to make it to the pool on Monday before closing time.

Emmy's 6 month & Bo's 2yr check-up.

Yesterday, we took both kiddos to the doctor. Bo weighed in at 28 lbs., 37" tall so over 3 ft now. Both of those were in the 90 percentile for his age. His head size is off the charts. His mother says he gets that from his father. Daddy says, you need a big head to protect the big brain. She asks if he spoke over 50 words and I said I wish he only spoke 50 words. I don't have a clue how many words but it is a lot. He is also doing small sentences now and 3-4 word phrases a lot. My favorite is everything is in the 3rd person like "Bo will try it, too" or "Bo likes this and this is fun". He can eat whatever he wants which he has been doing for over a year now. That's how long he has had all of his teeth. Probably have to see the dentist in 6 months or so. He doesn't have to go back until he is 3 years old. I guess he is officially a big boy now.

Emily weighed in at 14lb 7oz so still not so great but definitely better than before. She has moved up to the 15 percentile where she was only 10 percentile 3months ago. Her height on the other hand is 26.5" which is the 75 percentile. So we have a skinny, tall model. Dr. said her crawling already and sitting up on her own is ahead of schedule for sure. She is saying da-da (repeated consonant sounds) already too which is a 9 month old skill. She wouldn't be surprised if she is pulling her self up and actually saying words by the end of the summer (in 3 months). Developmentally she is doing really well. Sleeping she is still waking up in the middle of the night once so she suggested attempting to let her cry it out so she goes 10-12 hours sleeping straight. She thinks she weighs enough now to be able to do that. We still aren't sure about her allergies so we have to stick to the non-dairy and non-soy formula. At 9 months we can try yogurt and see how she reacts.

The past 2 weeks she has really started to eat a lot. She is eating 2 cubes of food 3 meals a day. She eats bananas or apple sauce mixed with rice cereal in the morning, orange veggies (squash, carrots, or sweet potatoes) for lunch, and greens (peas, green beans, or guacamole) for dinner. We are suppose to try proteins and all other non-citrus fruits now. This should keep her busy until 9 months. She received 2 more immunizations shots so she didn't sleep so well the rest of the day but as usual didn't complain. She just smiles and laughs.

Now the summer begins.

Bo's Cho-Cho Birthday Party

This past Sunday 5/22/2011 we had Bo's 2nd birthday party at the Cho-Cho Store. This is one of Bo's favorite places to go. It is really called the Whittle Shortline Railroad store. They sell all kinds of wooden trains, tracks, etc. but also have huge display out for the kids to play with.
For the party, we had a room upstairs where everyone could gather, play games, and eat cupcakes. Bo was so excited because he was able to invite all of his friends, even Patrick (little boy from his day care) that he plays with every day.
Here is a picture of the set-up. Mommy did an excellent job with all the decorations (Thomas the Train everything including table cloth, plates, cupcakes, and balloons).

There was also a train piñata that everyone got to take a few swings at.

Besides playing with the trains, I think Bo's favorite party was everyone singing happy birthday to him. He loves that song. He sings it every time he sees any cake. This time they said his name and he was able to blow the candle out.

Here is what he looked like afterwords. The Thomas Blue icing really left its mark. Bo didn't quite make as big of mess as last year. For some reason, he like to lick the icing off the Thomas ring on the cupcake then dip it back in the cupcake and then lick again. He then was blowing the party favor but had icing on his hands so then licked the party favor.
Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy.

After eating cake and snacks and drinking "juice boxes", it was play time. Everyone headed for the tracks. As you can see Bo was in heaven. He did not want to stop playing. They actually had to ask us to leave because they were closing down for another party. We had to bribe him with his presents to leave.

Here is Emmy enjoying all the festivities. Yes, she is out cold. The noise did not bother her at all.

As part of the party, they let the birthday Bo put his hand print on the wall. Bo thought it was fun to "draw" on the wall.

When we got back to "Bo's house", we opened all the presents. He loves presents. He kept saying "Another one, another one, please." He didn't know which one to play with so kept going back and forth. I think he enjoyed the tee ball set the most so far. He wanted to not only put the balls on the tee but also his other presents like a thomas lunch box and puzzles.
I think in this picture he hit a "Home Run."

Here is Emmy crawling around playing with the leftovers too. I think she was also ducking to avoid being hit by the tee-ball bat and whatever might be flying off the bat.

After presents died down, he wanted to sing happy birthday again. So we lit a candle on his cupcake and sang to him again. And then again. I'm not sure he really wanted the cupcake but just to sing the song.

I also should note that when we finally put him down to bed that night we heard something from his room about 30mins later. We could hear Bo saying "Bo had party with cho-cho" and then he sang "happy to ya" to himself.
Then when he woke up in the morning, he said "Daddy, Bo go downstairs and play with toys".

Emmy is 6 month's old

Today Emmy is 6 months old. She is doing very well. She has really started to eat her solid food the past 10 days. We give her rice cereal with some fruit in the morning, usually an orange veggie for lunch like carrots, sweet potatoes, or squash and then some greens at night like peas, guacamole, or green beans. Here is a pic enjoying her foot. She still loves her bottle though. Mommy thinks it is going to be hard to break her of that.

In the last 2 weeks she has started to scoot around. She isn't quite crawling on all fours but is definitely moving around everywhere. It is more like an army crawl that Bo did as well. All arms and she just drags her legs around.

She still isn't sleeping through the night. She likes to get up around 2-3ish and wants her bottle. Here is a pic of Emily's new alarm clock, big brother Bo.

She is just the happiest baby and loves her Minnie Mouse.

Check out this look-a-like doll we have of her. Doesn't it look real?