Emerson Ann & Stella Louise

Sunday, September 13, 2009

September 13th, 2009

We celebrated Emerson and Stella's 2nd birthday tonight! We had a great time with our friends and family, and we are pretty sure that this was the final 2nd birthday party for our girls. We have already been celebrating for about a month!

We opened presents first!

Silly Papaw!

The girls loved the doggy card!

Our soldier came home!

Aunt Brandi made the most amazing birthday cakes! She is very talented!

Ruthi and Stella look like they are playing a pretty serious game of soccer!

How many people does it take to figure out a cash register?!

Emerson hasn't seen Brent very much since he left for the Army in February, but she seemed pretty excited to spend time with him!

They loved the cake!

Thanks Aunt B!

They went straight to the bath tub when they were finished destroying their cakes!

Mamaw Ruth spent the last hour or so assembling toys. Thanks Mamaw Ruth!

The girls don't seem to care that it is a doll stroller!

Thanks Sharlla for taking the awesome photos!

Saturday, September 12, 2009

September 11th, 2009

HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY, EMERSON & STELLA!

We kicked off the eve of the girls' birthday with cupcakes, and cousin Ruthi spent the night. I made them pink cupcakes with pink frosting to take to the park on their birthday. I let them have one after dinner on the 10th, and I quickly realized that the girls can't tolerate red dye. They haven't had much red dye because they don't really eat candy, juice, or kool aid. The pink cupcakes were full of red dye, and they both went crazy! We survived all of their craziness on the night before their birthday, and decided that they wouldn't be eating anymore pink cupcakes. Luckily, Aunt Brandi came to the rescue and made amazing replacement cupcakes! This is what we did for the day of their birthday:

The girls even woke up in good moods!

They must have known it was going to be a good day!

Cupcakes with lunch!

Aunt Brandi makes the BEST cupcakes!

Then we went to Zachary's Playground!

The girls loved the slides.

(I think Mamaw Ruth liked the slides too!)

I love this picture of Stella. She has her arms tucked into the swing!

WEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Silly Emerson

Busy Stella

More swinging!

Enjoying the view with cousin Ruthi.

Birthday girls!

They were really interested in the geese.

After the park we went to Culver's for ice cream! It was a great day!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

September 10th, 2009

Exactly two years ago today, James and I were at the perinatologist's office having a check up and an ultrasound. I was 24 weeks and 6 days into my pregnancy, and everything was going great. My doctors said everything was good, and we were going to start weekly stress tests to monitor the girls the following week. We went out to dinner, went grocery shopping, went home, and went to bed. I woke up early on September 11th and realized that I was in labor. James drove me to the hospital, and our tiny babies were born a few hours later. We have been so blessed over the last 2 year. We have watched our very small, very fragile, miracle babies turn into toddlers. We are so excited to celebrate their 2nd birthday this weekend! (We have already been celebrating for about a month!) These are the ultrasound pictures that were taken the day before they were born:

Emerson

Stella

The girls have been playing with their Rose Petal Cottage non-stop! They were cooking together!

Stella cooking.

Emerson throwing her monkey out the door!

We are working on potty training just a little bit.

I am beginning to think that they just like to sit on their potties so I will read to them! They get read to a lot anyway, but they have figured out that they can be read to whenever they want if they say they need to go potty!