Emma is growing up too fast! She finally waves! Her favorite game is peek-a-boo. She'll hold toys up over her head and then pull it down real quick. And if you say "peek!" she'll smile real big and keep doing it. If you're sitting on the couch, she'll squat down and put her head down and then stand up real fast! So funny! She also loves to let go and stand on her own - for up to 10 seconds! She is finally eating three meals of baby food, and she loves puffs and Cinnamon Cheerios.

I am searching for the right preschool for Drew. They are all starting registration for the fall already. He has continued to amaze me with his smarts. The other day in the car he was talking away, "We have to go to the store, eat lunch, play and take a nap. We have four things to do. No wait, we just went to the store - we only have three things to do!" He's making to do lists and doing subtraction! His new thing is to say a word and then sound out the first letter. "ball, b-, b- it starts with a b!" I think he got that from either the show Super Why or from his Alfie toy.

And Drew's quote for the week: "That lady has two BIG melons!" We call canteloupe "melon," and at the grocery store a woman had two canteloupes in her cart... good grief, I about died! At least she didn't hear him!

This past weekend was rough. Saturday morning Drew woke up really early. He laid on the couch with Chad and then got up, said, "my belly hurts," and got sick! He had the stomach bug all day - it was awful!! Lots of laundry and Lysol! So far, no one else has gotten the bug! He took his nap on the couch...Charlie joined him!

On Sunday he was better (just no appetite!), and we got to enjoy the 70 degree weather!! Here's Chad and Drew playing some baseball and Emma pushing her walker.

And this one would have been a homerun for sure!

We got Drew's wagon out and let Emma go for a ride.

Drew really wanted to pull her too.

And he wanted to see if he would still fit in it! Barely!!

This was the first time Emma had really sat and played in the grass - she really liked it!

I like this action shot - with his tongue out! haha

We hosted our neighborhood playgroup last Friday. Here's Emma and Annika - and I never thought Emma's head looked big (even though it measures in the 80th percentile) - but she makes Annika's head look tiny (but she is just 7 months old and has a 25th percentile head!). Leif and Meena were there too - Leif played with Drew's crane the whole time and Meena petted Charlie (who kept sitting with us...seriously, he's social now!!). Drew sat on his big wheel the whole couple hours that our company was there - that thing is definitely going out in the garage next time people come over!

I LOVE this picture - it reminds me of the picture that I have of Drew standing there at about that same age. The lighting is perfect in this room. Emma has on her skinny jeans (AKA Peter Pan Pants haha).

I dug up the one of Drew...WOW, they really do look alike! Everyone (even the manager at the grocery store that I go to all the time!!) tells me that they look so much alike!