Nine Months Already

   We've made it to nine months in a flash it seems.  Emery hasn't been to the doctor yet, so I have no baby stats at the moment.  I haven't even gotten on the scale with her to get an idea of how big she is.  She still hasn't begun to crawl on her hands and knees yet.  Emery just scoots around army style.  She has perfected her sitting up skill and has begun to try and pull herself up on the couch, but only to her knees.  She loves to eat whatever the family is eating at dinner time.  Don't try to leave her out of dinner time.  If you do she just crawls under the table and bugs you until you put her in her high chair.  That girl is a hearty eater.  

   I haven't gone out as much with Emery as I did with Avery and Harper because Emery doesn't like going to sleep anywhere but in her crib.  She doesn't even really sleep in the car.  Even if it is her nap time.  Fortunately she doesn't cry; preferring to hang out calmly.  We love Emery.  Avery and Harper still love Emery even if she does come into their room to mess up their Legos.  

Here she is with the monkey in the best shot I could get today.  She's holding an Angry Birds pig that is one of her favorite toys right now.

Emery's cousin, Tyler, was playing with her the other week and it was super cute.  

Here she is carefully inching her way to actually supporting herself on her feet instead of her knees.

Showing off her mad sitting up skills.

Crawling through the side table.

Seven Years Together

   The 29th will be mine and Daryl's seventh wedding anniversary.  We celebrated early last week by running away to Victoria B.C. over night.  We stayed in the Empress hotel and had a lovely time visiting Craigdarroch Castle, the Parliament Building, and Miniature World.  Our hotel hosts high teas several times a day, so we had high tea with hot chocolate.  Here are some pictures of our trip of course, and I snuck in a picture from our wedding.  I don't think I've ever actually put any of our wedding pictures on our blog before.

High tea at the Empress with dainty sandwiches and scones.

We didn't eat here, but this is the second restaurant I know that is named after a Nellie.  

Here we are on our wedding day.  We got really lucky and had gorgeous weather for our wedding.  We had our reception the next day and it was rainy as usual.

Happy Birthday Fox!

     Today is not only St. Patrick's day, but it is my cat Fox's 13th birthday.  He's my old man cat.  Despite his advanced years he's in pretty good shape.  He just moves a little slower when he takes the stairs.  

      We of course had to have a proper birthday party for him.  Avery was very excited about Fox's birthday and wanted to know what his present was, if we were going to blow out candles for him, and if we were going to have party hats.  I told her that Fox's present is living with us, that of course we would put a candle in our St. Patrick's day carrot cake cupcakes we got from Costco, and we dug out our party hats from New Years.  All these things were satisfactory to her. Avery really loves birthdays. She was sad that we didn't invite anyone to the party though. 

Avery really wanted to have her tongue sticking out.  

Emery was giving Daryl a look right after he put the hat on her that seemed to say, "What is this thing?"

Here she is looking at the camera now with a silly little face.  

The girls blowing out the birthday cupcake.

The birthday boy not very excited about the flash on the camera.

Sandwiches!

   Last week Avery and Harper put themselves between their floor cushions, and I asked them if they were sandwiches.  They jumped up on that and demanded that I eat them.  After several Avery and Harper sandwich servings I was able to convince them that I was full of sandwiches. They thought it was hilarious.

Harper on top of an Avery sandwich and Emery being a little ham for the camera.  She likes to be around her big sisters.

A Harper sandwich.