HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMY!

This past Friday, September 26, was Emmy's 2nd birthday. I can't believe it she's already 2, my sweet girl is getting so big too fast. I am a firm believer that birthday's should be super special days. I really believe that the whole day should revolve around you. We aren't actually doing Emmy's party until this coming Friday (Oct. 3 my b-day) but I still wanted to make her day special. So we started off the day by waking her up singing te Happy birthday song. Then Daddy made her Mickey Mouse pancakes.


We got this plate for our wedding and we try to use it for special occasions, this counted. We write on the back of it with a permanent marker when we use it. We have lots of good memories with this plate. This was one of my favorite wedding presents.
Cahlan actually tried to make a smiley face on the other side but it just looked creepy.

Oh man so cute, I know. Yeah we're really trying to work on the eating with your mouth closed thing as you can tell here.After breakfast we went and played at the park for a while and then we went to the Disney store in the mall and I let her walk around and pick out any toy she wanted. It took us about an hour but when she found these Little Einstein dolls nothing else mattered. She LOVES them. She has been carrying all of them around and talks to them pretty much all day long.
That night we went to the Kangaroo Zoo, it's a place with these huge blow-up toys. Uncle Chance, Aunt Sadie and Uncle Chance's "friend" came to play too. It was a blast.

We had a lot of fun racing up these slide Cahlan totally killed me every time. Here Sadie and Cahlan are getting ready to race.GO Emmy GO! She had such a good time.

At the end of the day we were all pretty tired, but it was so nice. I love my sweet Emmy so much. I have decided that she is pretty much the perfect child. She is always happy. She loves to sing and dance. She loves Cohen and helps me out so much. I could not ask for a better child. I love her so much more everyday and sometimes I just can't help but squeeze her. I really do feel like the luckiest mommy in the world, sometimes I feel like no one could love their child as much as I love my babies. But I'm sure that every mother feels the same about her babies. I love my family with all of my heart. And I love my Emmy and I can't wait for whatever comes next. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!

"Poo poo in da Potty"

So for a while now Emmy has acted like she wants to use the potty. So last Saturday we got a training potty and on Sunday we set it up. On Monday she pooped once and peed twice! In fact she was the one that told me she wanted to go potty. She hasn't completely masted the potty yet and still mostly goes in her diaper. It's so cute though because when she sits on the potty she has to read something, so she'll grab a magazine and read while she sits.This picture is from the first day when she pooped and peed. I'm so proud. You know that you're a stinking parent when you get so happy for someone else's poo.

Nursing woes.... Or rather the end of nursing woes.

I haven't talked about this on here yet but the first two months of Cohen's life were spent screaming pretty much all of the time. It was kind of hard to deal with since Emmy was such an easy baby; I wasn't really used to the whole super fussy thing. I only nursed Emmy until she was about 6 months old and after I quite I missed it so much, so with Cohen I was determined to nurse him for longer. After almost a month of dealing with a constantly fussy baby we decided to start trying things first we tried prevacid, which helped some but he was still just miserable so then I started cutting things out of my diet which still didn't help. Then one night I ran somewhere and Cahlan was with the kiddos. He called and I could hear the child shrieking in the background, he said that if I kept on nursing he would not watch Cohen by himself again. So I decided it was time to try somethig else. We tried a few different formulas which really didn't help that much except for the soy which seemed to help this horribly bad acne/rash he had developed all over his face, head and neck, but the soy made him severely constipated which was not fun either. So then I broke down and we started him on this ridiculous formula called alimentum. It costs about $25 for a container that lasts about 3 days. I think it must have gold dust in it or something. But after almost two weeks on it I can proudly say that we have a happy child!!!! YAY! I actually have a baby that smiles and tries to giggle. Turns out the kid is pretty much allergic to EVERYTHING! But now instead of screaming for hours and hours he will actually sleep and then wake up and eat and then have happy awake periods. So here's a shout out to Prevacid and alimentum. And I hope you enjoy the video of my happy boy.
Something that I have discovered about my new happy baby is that he is my biggest fan. He could just look at me forever. I love it when I look at him he gets the biggest grin and he coos and tries so hard to tell me all about his day it's so cute. I must say that newborns are cute but man can they be difficult.
I am so grateful for my babies and I can't imagine doing anything else right now. I always remember hearing people say how there's no love like a mother's love for her child and I really do understand that now. My family is my life and I love my life.