Big news!

Well, in the world of babies, it's big news...lol. Today is a special day. Not only is it Matt's 32nd birthday, but Emily also got her first tooth today! Her bottom right tooth came in. I could feel it for a while (when she lets me), and the last couple of days she has been VERY fussy, so I knew it was soon. Today she was back to her good spirits again, so I checked and there it was broken through. Yay!

Also, yesterday my big girl used the jumparoo for the first time. She's still a little short for it, but she got it bouncing. She is going to love it even more when she grows into it.

She is also rolling all over the place, reaching for things, making adorable faces and sounds.

Also, after seeing her next to her baby cousin, Ben, I could see how big she has gotten already. He was 6 lbs, 5 oz...not much smaller than she was at birth, and he looked and felt sooo tiny in comparison. She also doesn't look quite as tiny next to Ashley anymore when they're playing together.

Speaking of Ashley, she has been cracking me up lately.

For the last couple of weeks she has been going around saying "too loud, too loud" to noisy objects. It's so funny. When Lisa was here, she was vacuuming (with a somewhat quiet vacuum), and Ashley kept saying "too loud grand mom". Haha.

She is also getting quite good at mastering my phone, and likes to take it and play games with numbers, shapes, matching, etc. She does quite well.

She also looks at pictures of our new house and says "Ashley's house"...so maybe she understands a little? But then on the flip side she talks about going over to Katie and Eli's house a lot which makes makes me a little sad.

She's also been funny about associating things. A few weeks back I taught her that mommy's name was Lisa, and daddy's name was Matt. Well lately since we've been staying here, she's heard a lot of people call daddy "Matt", so she started calling him Matt, or Matt daddy. Lol.

The other cute thing is that we try to teach her different things. For instance, we were having lunch one day a few weeks ago, and I explained to her that milk came from cows. So now she's always asking for "cows milk".

She also remembered that we had birthday cake for grandpop last week, so when I told her that today was daddy's birthday, she kept talking about birthday cake. She even drew a picture of "daddy's birthday cake" on the back of his card :)

All in all the girls are doing great. I am so glad Emily's tooth came through since it was a little rough for all of us. Ashley has also been slightly more mischievous being at grandmom and grandpops house. Lisa has been super accommodating to us--she emptied out closets so we could settle in a little, she set up a toy section and diaper changing station, baby proofed outlets, etc...but there are still plenty of new and exciting things that Ashley keeps trying to get into. But we're making do.

Well on that note, miss Emily is demanding my attention so I better run.

Here are a few pics of baby cousin Ben.