Please Indulge Me Once More...

I know, I know, I am one of those annoying bloggers that only posts about how cute and amazing my kids are, and this time is no different....sorry. But Emma just got her first haircut!! Her hair was so long and thin and straggly so I decided it was time for a change, and I think it is adorable!!

Emma Singing

We don't have much singing talent in our family, but I think we just found our jewel. American Idol, here we come.

Another one ready for kindergarten...and Kangaroo Zoo!!

I thought I felt like I was getting old when my first born went off to kindergarten, but now my second child is going to head off to kindergarten in the fall. I just got Austin all registered for school last week! I can't believe he is really old enough to go to school. He had his well-check at the doctor and he is doing great. He is small...just like my other kids, but very healthy. I think he was in the 8th percentile for weight and 16th for height. The doctor always asks about how tall Ira and I are...i think they are afraid we don't feed them or something ;) Austin took all five shots like a champ!!! He held so still and did great. We just found out that Austin was accepted to a local charter school which was really exciting, but now we are trying to decide if it would be better to keep the boys at the same school or let Austin go to the charter school and hope that Taylor gets in later. We have heard some good things and bad things about charter schools, so if anyone has any information or opinions on charter schools please weigh in. We can use any help we can get!!

The other pictures on here are from Kangaroo Zoo. The kids had a blast and were able to use up some of their crazy amounts of energy. Emma really surprised us with her lack of fear and crazy climbing abilities. She was climbing up this 30 foot slide and going down by herself over and over and over. She loved it!!

Some pics from our winter fun

A big week in the life of a two-year-old!

This Christmas break has brought some big changes for little miss Emma. In one week she has successfully moved out of a crib and into a big girl bed and gotten potty-trained!! WOOHOO!!! We are so excited (mom especially) about the potty training!! YAY for Emma!!!

Christmas with the Hinckley's

We had a great Christmas this year. It was our first year that we had Christmas at our own house. We had always been at my parent's or Ira's previous years. It was so fun to have Santa come to our home this year. The kids had a great time and they even heard Santa's sleigh bells while they were in their beds on Christmas Eve! Ira took off the whole week in between Christmas and New Years so we have been loving having some good family time! We went to the Children's Museum up in Salt Lake and the kids thought that was about the coolest place ever. We went sledding yesterday with Ira's family. Taylor was a total daredevil as expected and flew down the hillside. Austin and Emma loved it too, but they preferred having mom or dad ride with them. It really has been a fabulous holiday season and hope it was for all of you too!

Little Emma is so Big!!

Wow!! Two years have gone by since little miss Emma joined our family. We are so grateful to have her feisty, stubborn, sweet, sassy, cute, funny, diva, personality in our family. She is 100% girl and so fun to be around. Happy Birthday Emma! We love you!!

Some things about Emma at age two:

• Her favorite phrase is No, No way!! to whatever we ask her to do.
• When she wakes up in the morning she loves to just talk to herself in her crib.
• She loves to read books and sing songs. One of her favorites is her potty book...although she not to keen on going on the potty (work in progress)
• She loves to color and knows most of her colors.
• She loves breakfast and makes her rounds eating off of everyone's breakfast.
• She can identify about 10-15 letters and tell you some of their sounds.
• She loves clothes and shoes and accessories.
• She love puppies but is afraid of them if they run up to her!
• She says please and thankyou and your welcome and excuse you and sorry, but not always in the right context.
• She is talking like crazy and says some funny things like one time when she told Taylor that he was rude.
• She has to have a million hugs and kisses from everyone in the family before she goes to bed at night and the hugs and kisses have to be given when she is tucked into bed or she thinks they don't count.
• She is full of attitude, cuteness, cuddliness, and we love her to pieces!!