Emerson loving her bath. Kennedy and Parker love bath time too.

For Christmas, Gramda June gave Kennedy a butterfly thing where they mail you caterpillars and you get to watch them turn in to butterflies. For various reasons, we were left with one surviving butterfly that we enjoyed watching and feeding for several weeks. Sunday we thought it was warm enough to let our butterfly out to go find some other butterfly friends. We thought Kennedy might be upset but she was happy to let it go find its family.

We have had a busy and somewhat challenging 2 weeks, thus the lack of posting. Parker got sick last Sunday night with I think the flu. He was throwing up, had a fever, and other yucky things associated with all that. He didn't get better until Saturday. Kennedy got sick Tuesday and stayed sick until Saturday. My poor mom came Monday and ended up getting sick this past Monday as did Chad. So far, Emerson and I are the only ones not to get the nasty virus. We all have sore throats and colds, including Emerson. Praying that E and I don't get the other virus. Unfortunately, we didn't get to enjoy our time with my mom as much as we could have due to all the sickness, but we are glad she could come anyways. Other than a trip to the zoo during which Parker threw up (we thought he was better but we were wrong) we just hung out at the house.

Emerson

Emerson does not like to be put down. Ever. I guess all of our kids have been that way. So while I was trying to make supper yesterday I thought I'd get the john jump up out for her and see if she liked it. She did!! And Kennedy and Parker loved pushing her in it which kept her happy for about 20 minutes, probably the longest she's ever been put down.

Kennedy was talking to her while she was in it today. In case you can't make out what she's saying on the video, she was asking her if she wanted to go to Disney World and see Minnie Mouse. Emerson sounded excited about it.

A msg for Grandma

To: Grandma From: Kennedy

I gave up dessert for lent again this year. I love dessert and when I give it up for lent it's about the only time I make it through any period of time not eating. Something I've noticed is that when I stop eating dessert, other foods taste a lot sweeter. Apples have never tasted as good to me as they have the past 2 weeks, I've never really liked them actually. But the one I just ate was delicious. And almonds, when I'm not eating super sweet desserts, it's amazing how sweet even nuts taste. Now if I could just keep it up after lent =)

I realized yesterday that I haven't been putting up many pictures of Emerson. The camera Chad got me also has a video function so I'm going to attempt to post a picture of her bath last night. Hopefully it works.