Oh Emmy...

See what I mean...

People would think she's homeless. This is her outfit for today, yes in 110 degrees? What am I to do?

New School

Our kids started at a new school this year. I am actually SO excited. I love all of their teachers and think they fit with my kiddos perfectly. Anna was a little skeptical because she now has to wear a uniform... and shoes?! I really don't think Anna even owned a pair of shoes until now. She has worn flip flops everyday of her life! I personally love the uniforms. Especially because Emmy has.... let's just say her own 'style' and I would be nervous people would think she was homeless with out them. I have made several headbands and hairclips to ensure Anna's need to be a little fashionable!

Anna had a hard time the night before the first day of school. She hates meeting new people and being in new places. I kept reassuring her she makes friends so easily. I don't know what I am going to do with Molly by myself though. Anna has taken the role of her 2nd mom so now I'm going to have to take Molly with me to run errands??? I was spoiled over the summer.

Emmy had a hard time falling asleep but was ready to ride the bus in the morning! (I hope the newness of riding the bus doesn't fade!) She is so excited to be big. Even though she's not technically my baby we still treat her as one so it was really hard for me to see her go. She says funny crap all day long and I am going to really miss her constant entertainment.

James was geared up and ready to go. He is super sweet and kept saying for at least the first week of school he will make sure the girls are where they should be and have friends before he finds his own. He really is such a great big brother. I'm going to miss being able to talk to him during the day. He's been my good friend over the summer.

Lunches were made, bags were packed, and we headed to the bus stop. (which conveniently is at our mailbox! I thought I would have to drive them somewhere.)

Anna was scared, Emmy was excited, and James was ready.

(This picture doesn't even do Emmy justice. Jared and I were crying/laughing over her facial expressions sitting on the bus. Even while typing this I'm giggling)

After the bus picked them up, I jumped in the car and headed to the school to make sure they got there safe!! They all seemed fine so I left, cried, and headed to sonic.

9,10,11....

12!! My baby's a year old?!?! We kept pretty busy this summer so my

month onesies were slacking! oops!!

A year ago I gave birth to my first (and last) baby at home!! Sometimes it's fun to reminisce about each kids pregnancy and labor but I have to be honest I try real hard to forget about Molly's! After I shed tears remembering Molly's birth I instantly smiled thinking about her first year.

Molly is certainly developing a fun personality.

*She loves playing 'where's Molly' her version of peek-a-boo

(no she's not flipping me off!)

*She's standing on her own, but I think waits for Anna or

Emmy to come take her where she wants to go!

*Blows kisses

*babbles all day long

*still takes crazy long naps

*has 6 teeth

*still holding on to a little chub

8 months

I guess this blog is turning out to be about Molly's first year!! I am determined to make a first year blog book about her though even if I didn't make her an eight month onezie! Hey, I'm impressed I made 7!

Molly is growing up so fast. She continues to crawl around and gets faster and faster. She has 3 and a 1/2 teeth and loves to grind them. She weighs 20lbs according to our scale at home because I forget when you are supposed to take baby's to doctors appointments. I think it might be 8 months!

She...

still squeals

says da-da

has a crazy leg (when she gets excited she kicks her right leg)

loves to eat

bobs up and down to music

is still attatched to me

I am happy to say she is also officially ours. We have been through hell and back trying to get a birth certificate but we got it!!

Good Golly I love you!

7months

Here she is....

I LOVE this thing and can I say that I am truly her favorite person?!! None of my kids have ever cared but this one is quite attached to me!

Molly is crawling which has made life interesting!

She talks S O loud. In the morning I turn off the monitor and try to ignore her but the other kids come in and say that Molly woke them up.

I love her so much. I love that the kids love her. I love that she squeals when she sees people she knows. I love that she's still (a little) chubby. I love that she's mine!

My apologies...

SO... I am a little embarrassed about this post but think I need to apologize over my little meltdown...

In the last week, our dryer won't turn on, dishwasher leaks, grill broke, car doors don't work automatically, and that is just the SHORT list of headaches I have had.

After having a GREAT morning with James, I took him to Jack in the Box where they were having 'buy a drink get a sandwich for free' day. I'll rewind and say that I received a phone call that sent me into an emotional spiral that left me crying right before ordering. I composed myself and ordered. 2 drinks and 2 sandwiches NO. SAUCE. I handed James his sandwich and headed back to his school. I made another phone call and looked in my rear view mirror. I see the sweetest boy with a bummed look on his face. I finish the call and ask him what's the matter. He politely says nothing.

Wouldn't you if your mom was hysterically crying????

I tell him my mom senses tell me something is wrong and he tells me there is sauce on his sandwich. WHAT? I swerve across 3 lanes and flip a U. He is saying 'it's ok mom, I'm scraping it off"!

OH NO YOU AREN'T

I grab his sandwich and march my mascara running, still sniffling, self right into JintheB. I don't even bother to say excuse me to the 50 people waiting in line for their free sandwich. I went right to the front counter, slam the sandwich on the counter and say 'I SAID NO SAUCE' they make me a new sandwich, I rudely grabbed it out of their hands, and stormed out.

OH MY HEAVEN'S.... I am so embarrassed. I will definitely be making an appearance there today to apologize. That really was uncalled for.

So as I lay in bed reading a 'being grateful' article I decided to recount the positives. I have a neighbor who let us use his dryer, we put a towel under the dishwasher so that no one slips (that's our way of fixing it), we don't always have to grill chicken, my kids are learning to manually open the doors instead of yelling outside of the car "they won't open" (what would we do if all of technology failed?) and my other stresses will somehow (cross your fingers) work out. Later that night I went and got the mail. My eyes lit up when I saw and actual letter ( you know that actually someone had handwritten )addressed to me and my family. The contents of that letter set me in an emotional spiral once again but for different reasons. I am blessed. My hubby has a job, my health and my family's health are good, we have what we need, and we love each other. Hopefully the kind people at JintheB will accept my apology.

Fun Date...

Today I took this boy out of school (blurry pic from phone)

who used this coupon (I made a coupn book for the kids for Christmas)

to see this movie (which apparently doesn't want to load any bigger!)

I loved spending time with this little guy. He's such good company. It was so fun to pick him up from school and see the biggest smile on his face. It made my day.....

Emmy/James

Our little neighbor girl gave Emmy her old bike. Emmy had a REALLY small bike so we were all thrilled that she got a bigger one. My kids love riding their bikes and ask to go on long rides all the time. I signed up for a 10K on Sat. and found out it is straight hills.

(is that an oxymoron?) I found out AFTER I signed up of course! So I decided to take the kids to a park 1.64 miles away because it has hills I could run.When we got there the kids were so excited to ride their bikes down the hill. I told them to start 3/4 of the way down because it was REALLY steep. Of course that only lasted a few times before they wanted to test their riding skills!

As Emmy kept inching her way up she drew a crowd. First of all she started riding her bike when she was barely 4 years old, can roller blade, ride a skateboard, do the monkey bars, and run for what seems like hours! SO I was just as confident in her capabilities as she was. She decided to go to the very top! I yelled for her to come down but I knew it would just eat her up if she wasn't allowed so I told her to come down on an angle. As the lacrosse team was sitting near by for half-time huddle you could hear them say... "is her mom really gonna let her go down that", "how old is she", "she's totally gonna biff it"!

She leans forward and is off.......

She flys down the hill with the biggest grin on her face and even gets a few cheers from the audience. I wasn't thinking of taking pictures of it then but OF COURSE she had to do it again, which again I begged her not to. She pushed and pushed her bike to the top and hopped back on.

James....

Anna....

I gave another reminder to go down diagonally. She notices the crowd and without batting an eye chooses to put her feet on the handle bars. (show off) As she looks to make sure all eyes are on her, her bike started coming STRAIGHT down the hill. The huge smile on her face quickly turns to fear as you see the bike start to wobble. She flipped

off of her bike and rolled down the hill. Peddles from her bike are flying off. She was SOBBING. I ran over to console her. (Reason there was not a good photo)

As I looked her over to make sure she was ok (it was a pretty good fall) she sniffled a few times and said "Gwate... now my half to go back to my yittle bike"

As I am trying to fix her bike, James is holding Emmy making sure she is okay. He so sweetly said, "I wish it were me" to which Emmy so sweetly replied, "or Anna right?"!

The bike needed tools. I called Jared to come pick us up. He brought the jeep so we couldn't all fit. James said he would ride in the car with Emmy. Anna didn't think that was fair so James said he would ride with me home while the girls drove in the car.

As I hop on Anna's bike I notice the tires are flat. It FOR SURE couldn't have held up the whole way home so of course James said, "take my bike mom, I will ride Anna's". We started to ride home and James yells back at me saying, "this is SO humiliating" He said he would have to explain to his friends if they saw him riding home why he was riding a pink bike!

I love that kid. I need that kid. He is SO good to all of his sisters and especially me. Without any fuss he is always the one to sacrifice.

James didn't see anyone from school, Emmy's ego is a little bruised, and I feel a little more prepared for Saturday so all in all I think it was a successful long ride!

6 Months

Some how I seemed to skip right over 5 months!!

(my brother got married that day, that's another post!)

We still are crazy in love with this girl and think we will keep her.

She has one tooth and is currently working on one on the top.

She is sitting up but not 100%. She sits up then takes one look at those delicious toes and heads face first into them

See!! Don't they look delicious!