Week 79 and Week 192

William is 79 weeks old and officially an 18 month old!  How did that happen??  I am officially loving this age (when I'm not totally frustrated, that is!).  William is learning new things everyday and is talking up a storm.  He is happy as long as no one takes what he wants and everyone knows what he wants at all times!  It is getting easier to figure things out and he can sometimes calm down if I can get him to understand the situation.  We still have our tantrums but they don't usually last for too long.  William finally got another tooth this week.  So, he now has 7.  This is his first one since the spring!!  We had a nice week getting back into our routine and enjoying some nice weather.  Mommy even made it to the gym this week and William did great in the childcare room.  He saw the train table and he was off playing and did not mind me leaving at all.  I was not sure how he would do since he is rarely left by himself without Emily and she was at school.  So I guess I have no more excuses!!  Time to get my butt in shape!! 

Emily is 192 weeks old.  We had a fun week practicing her song that she sang in church today.  She did a great job.  Smiled and sang the whole time!  She loves being on stage!  She won't walk with her Sunday School class by herself, but she'll march right up in front of the whole congregation and put on a show!  We had a fun Saturday that started with the town Halloween parade.  It was fun to get the kids in their costumes and have some fun.  William won in his age group, so the effort was worth it!  And Emily got to learn that sometimes she doesn't win and her brother gets things that she doesn't.  She was really very good about it.  Then she got to go to a craft birthday party, which she loved.  So she is now planning her Cinderella birthday party at Michael's!!  She's been set on Cinderella since her last birthday, and I'm beginning to think it is going to stick...we'll see!

Here are some pics of our fun this week.....

William loves his pillow and his Snuggie Bears (and now Mickey too!)

Every morning he has to take them all out of his crib with him so he can keep snuggling!

And...if William has his pillow out, so does Emily!

As much as Will copies Emily, she wants to do everything he does also!!

Costume debut!

Heading to Halloween Party at Dance.

 

Back of the wings

Emily's dance class

 

And William jumped right into the circle and made himself right at home.

Mmmm...cupcake!

Emily's choice...pumpkin cupcake with vanilla icing and sprinkles!  Yum!

79 Weeks Old

Waiting for the parade to start

My beautiful butterfly

Time to march!

Will and Daddy marching around!

 

Will would not let go of his goodie bag and loved seeing the fire trucks!

Caterpillar and Butterfly

Time to clean out the pumpkin!

Emily loved getting the goop out of the pumpkin!

 

The finished product.

Completely Emily's design.

A girl and her pumpkin

Will just loved being able to sit on the counter!!

And the pumpkin too!

Putting on her makeup and getting ready to sing at church.

And this is what I do at church, since I won't be quiet or sit still!!

I have video of Emily singing, but can't upload it right now.  Hopefully we'll be able to share it soon!

And now we sit tight and wait for Frankenstorm Sandy!!!!

Week 78 and Week 191

William is 78 weeks old.  The first part of the week was Disney World, then we took the plane home and got right back into our routine then spent a quiet weekend at home while Daddy went camping.  Well, quiet until our friends came over on Saturday.  We watched the boys while Mom and Dad went out!  I suppose the plane ride is worth a mention.  William was tired as we were flying right around nap time.  I figured this would work out great and he would sleep, well he just wouldn't settle and was so cranky when things didn't go his way.  He'd relax a bit here and there but just would not give in until 2 seconds after we landed!!!  Yup, he waited until we hit ground and passed out in my arms.  He then stayed asleep in the stroller through the airport, in the car on the way home, and then slept some more in his bed!!  I told you he was tired!!  Overall the trip wasn't bad and Emily was great on her first plane ride. 

Emily is 191 weeks old.  She is most definitely our little ballerina.  When we got back she had dance class on Thursday and then her outfit for the day on Friday was her leotard.  She would not take it off and even took out her ballet shoes to dance around the house.  She is so into it this year and is having tons of fun! 

Here are some pics of the end of our week....

78 Weeks Old

My little ballerina

Sleepy ballerina

Swinging at the park

Swinging fun!

Love the swings!

Slide

Sliding together

Emily drawing a smiley face.  She just learned how to do these and loves making faces all the time now!

Emily and her little buddy Athan!

Will playing with Athan (or the toy that he hasn't seen in awhile!)

The gang watching the Jets go into overtime.

Disney World

Our trip to Florida ended with 2 days in Disney World.  It was a fun, exciting, princess filled, exhausting trip.  Emily loved the rides, her favorites were the Barnstormer, Teacups, Dumbo, and the Magic Carpets.  She also had a blast meeting the characters and loved getting all of their signatures (all of the good guys anyway...she wanted absolutely nothing to do with any bad guys).  On the second morning we got up bright and early to have breakfast with the princesses and Emily had a blast meeting them all.  We also were lucky enough to be there for the first dress rehearsal of the brand new princess section of Fantasyland.  We got to ride the new Ariel ride with no line at all, it was great!  (Emily didn't like the Ursula parts of course).  Emily didn't like it when it got dark or loud on any ride or show.  Luckily she seems to be remembering the good parts and isn't focusing on the parts she didn't like.  I know I'm talking about Emily a lot, well that's because she's the little princess and that was the main reason for going, however William had a great time too!  He got to go on most of the rides also and loved it!  He wasn't very into rides this summer and I even had to get off the carousel this summer because he refused to sit on the horse.  He kept asking to go on the horsies and had a great time!!  It's amazing the difference a couple of months make.  He also seemed to be ok with the characters until Minnie touched him, he totally freaked!!  He still liked looking at them from afar but didn't want to get too close after that.  His favorite word of the week was "POOL"!  We could see the pool from our room and every time he woke up the first word out of his mouth was pool.  He absolutely loved swimming and is doing so well in the water.  Yes, we went all the way to Disney World and one of the favorite moments of my kids was the pool!  Phoebe and Heron also had a blast in the pool with us.  We had a great time at the Magic Kingdom with them also.  It was a lot of fun having the big kids around and experiencing it all with them.  It was also nice having the extra adults to help with everything!  Overall a great trip, great memories, and great time with family.  And now a week later I think I may have finally caught up on some sleep!!!

Here are some pics of our Disney fun!!

First morning in Disney.  New Mee Mou for Will!

First morning!  New Minnie Mouse and Sparkly Princess shoes!

(She refused to wear her princess Ariel dress though)

We made it to the castle!

All ready for her first ride!!

Dumbo!

Emily and Daisy

Goofy with the family

The barnstormer!  Emily and Heron loved it and had to take turns sitting in front!

The Carousel.  Will loved the horsies!

All ready to head back to the park for some evening fun.

Magic Carpets!

Aunt Noreen all ready for the parade!

Grammie and Will waiting for the parade to start

Having fun getting into the park early in the morning.

(I had to convince her to wear the dress and as soon as everyone started telling her how beautiful she was she didn't want to take it off!)

Princess fun!

On our way to breakfast

Meeting Cinderella

Aurora

Ariel

Jasmine

Rapunzel

Fancy drink from Gaston's Tavern!

Tinkerbell

Riding the horsies again

Having fun in Pooh's house.

Weee!  I can go on the teacups too!

Yummy!  Thanks Grammie!!

Grammie, Pop Pop, and the kids

On the ferry leaving the park at the end of our trip.

On the ferry

Coloring after dinner.  Emily insisted on wearing her dress to dinner that night also!