Been a while...

Well I cannot believe June is almost over. I honestly couldn't tell you where the month went. I feel like I blink and the day is gone. I can say one thing for sure, keeping busy with Emma and everything else going on sure does make this 2nd pregnancy fly by. I can't believe I'm already at 22 weeks. Halloween will be here before we know it. Am I ready for October 31? No...

Well this month we finally moved to a house, and we absolutely love it. We moved last weekend, so we're still settling in, but there is so much room for Emma to run around. She loves it as much as we do. We have a great size yard that I'm looking forward to landscaping and setting up with Emma's pool, slide, etc...I'm also excited about hanging a swing in the front yard. It may not seem like much, but these are the little things that aren't possible when living in a townhouse. We are also 2 blocks away from the neighborhood park. Too bad the heat in Houston has been sweltering. The park will be reserved for early morning and early evening fun.

Here are some ways we have been trying to keep cool this summer...

Little nudie in the pool.

Paying a little visit to the fishies at the pet store. She loved it.

One of my all time favorite past times... shopping at Target :)

Riding the carousel at Memorial City Mall. She wasn't too sure of it at first, but then she couldn't get enough. We rode it 3 times.



Again, mom? Again????


My mom's cousin and his wife from Australia meeting Emma for the first time. This was their first trip to the States. The last time I saw them was in '99 when I visited the whole family in Sydney.

So Evan saw this cushion being removed to get to the crumbs, and guess what he did soon after! It took all his might, but he got that cushion off the chair!

Troublemakers.

...and this chair was just right...


Snuggling with my cousin.


I love this picture of Emma and her grandpa.


Taking some silly pics on our 3rd anniversary. I cannot believe it's already been 3 years!






Our happy little family of 3... on our next anniversary, a family of 4!

Emma LOVING the rice and peas at our anniversary dinner at India's. Yum!



I would also like to wish my cousin, Anna, a very happy and blessed birthday. Her husband, Tim, threw her a wonderful surprise birthday party earlier this month. A fun time was had by all...

And now it begins...

As a mom you try to postpone any bad habits for as long as possible. No junk food (there's plenty of time for that later), not too many sweets (being related to me I would like to control sugar intake for as long as possible, seeing as how I am a sugar addict), and especially, not too much TV. I was worried about TV at first, and I still am, to a point. I don't sit Emma in front of the TV for hours on end or anything like that, but she really does enjoy her morning PBS cartoons (Syd the Science Kid, Dinosaur Train, Sesame Street). She's only 13 months old, but when I turn on any of those shows, she gets excited. I decided to bring her chair downstairs from her bedroom. It's a green chair with her name monogrammed on it that my mom got for her for Christmas. I never thought she'd actually want to use it at this age, but she started sitting in it in her room, and she LOVES sitting in it when she is watching her shows... I mean look at this picture. Does she not look like she is older than 13 months???




There are alot of things that make me realize that she is no longer a baby. She hasn't been for a long while. But she seems to be growing up a such a fast pace, it's a little too fast for me. I couldn't tell you how many times people have told me "the time flies by, enjoy every minute, they'll be in school before you know it". Just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes. I remember when she was a month old, all I wanted was for her to keep her newborn look just a little while longer. I knew it would change so quickly, and forever. Now she is walking. And I miss her little booty moving side to side as she crawled. Soon she will be talking. And I'm so going to miss her random babbling, which to her, I know, is not so random.

I guess that's why I take so many pictures and video, I try to document as much as I can. I have over 25,000 pictures stored on my computer if that's any indication of how important they are to me. Life gets busy, we get older, and time starts to pass us by. One day we stop and wonder "how did I get here?". I'm very sentimental when it comes to memories, good ones and bad, happy ones and sad. Memories of important people in my life, those who used to be in my life, those who still are, those who I keep in my heart. Now I have a little person in my life and I am scared to death of time just flying by. I am so thankful every single day that I can stay home with Emma, that Conor works so hard to provide for his family and give me a priceless opportunity to spend so much time with Emma before she starts school. Sometimes I just sit and watch her play. Nothing special, just her playing, and talking to herself. But it's the world to me, every little thing she does, such as putting the TV remote or my eye shadow in the dog's water bowl, is the world to me. If I had the time and patience I would record or document it all, but that's just too unrealistic, so I will have to rely on my memories for some of the most precious moments.

Speaking of precious moments, enjoy this video of Emma and her daddy. She adores her daddy, adores him. Just yesterday Conor came home from work and she looked at him and yelled "Da Da!!!!". I couldn't believe it. Conor was on cloud 9. Now if we could just say "Ma Ma"...

I also finally did her one year chair pics... here's a sneak peek of one of my favorite shots: