emi's first ride

after breakfast...while i cleaned up the pee incident

eddie took emi out for a ride with her bike.

she insisted on riding down the driveway on her first ever bike experience.

she did great and surprised...

all the riding around toys r us paid off.

she rode to the one neighbor while makai chased her.

then went to the other neighbors house and back.

where makai chased her again.

makai is yelling to the cat across the street.

and then she figured out there are breaks if she pushes back.
she thought that was so fun and hilarious.

she loves her new bike.

thank you momo and poppy.

she says she needs a basket and pom poms. so funny!

off they go around the block.

had to take this picture of eddie gchatting with his dad

i set everything up for christmas while he put the bike together.

christmas 2013

santa came! we were so excited for this year.

as emi has understood the spirit of santa.

but i'm not sure how much spirit she has

as she said: i'm all santa'ed out!

what 4 year old says that? she cracks me up.

emi was so excited to raid every one's stockings.

eddie and i complain every year our stockings are too big

like they take a ton of stuff ($) to fill up.

i wanted to make some matching stockings.

but i am thinking i'll wait until our family is complete.

i found that little vacuum on clearance at buy buy baby

for like $5, because it was the display and they couldn't get it back in the box

super lazy/dumb employee or it was my lucky day.

either way i knew i had to get it for my vacuum loving boy.

now he has his own to push around and play with.

both emi and makai have obsessed over that dumb cat piano.
when i bought it, makai pushed the meow button...over and over
and i stood in line to purchase, i seriously had doubts in buying it.
it was already on my last nerve and we hadn't even left the store.

emi was so excited to get a minion in her stocking.

she just had to show makai...who also had one in his stocking.

this was from my phone.
momo and poppy got emi a bike.
and makai was way more excited about it than emi was.
she was excited and happy but wanted to see everything else.

 

 
while all makai wanted to do was get on the bike.

ma!! put down the camera and help me!!! please!!

daddy to the rescue. 

i guess maybe we should have gotten him a little bike or something.

i love this picture so much.

he was seriously so happy.

he is a little dare devil.

he was trying to shake it to move. smart boy.

these pictures are hilarious to me.

as we just soaked in the morning.

makai snuck over and was shoving the left over cookies in.

he realized i was taking his picture as he shoved it further in.

he left a trail of cookie crumbs everywhere he went.

he seriously will eat any type of dessert.

i still can't get emi to eat anything with sprinkles.

cookies, cakes, pies, jello and pudding...she hates it all.

ice cream and popsicles she likes, weirdo.

just vacuuming up his cookie crumbs.

it actually has a suction option and the beads circulate when turned on.

after a little while we finally started to open presents.

emi was so happy and surprised with this gift from momo and poppy.

she actually sleeps with each character at night.

i got a killer deal on some slippers.
so they each got new slippers. makai loved his.

emi loved her as well, she loves lambie.

oh yeah and mr. ozzy joined us for presents.

emi was so nice to help makai open his presents.

makai loves music so this is the prefect gift for him.

emi had to try out her new roller skates santa brought her.

i thought it was hilarious makai went straight for her leap pad

something he isn't allowed to touch otherwise.

he knew exactly what to do too.

not sure if anyone noticed. emi went to bed with pants on...now she has shorts on.

she ended up peeing her pants, in front of the toilet.

she was too stubborn to go pee before bed. 

so after presents and breakfast, i had fun cleaning that up.

merry freaking christmas to me! my job is never done.

trying out her new skates was hilarious.

i am surprised she didn't break her tailbone

for how many times she fell on her back side.

we were laughing so hard.

we realized she wasn't getting anything she asked santa for.

so i bought these cheapy skates for $15 on my last trip to walmart.

her foot is at the biggest size...hopefully makai won't mind minnie skates. ha!

date night

eddie and emi have been going out on dates.

i mentioned to eddie i thought it would be healthy

and a good idea for emi to go on one on one dates with us.

i mean the both of us...but i also mean individually. 

as i type this they are actually out on a date right now.

 

this date night he took her to ice cream.

with the thought of bringing me some ice cream home.

well i guess when the ice cream date was over

she declared the date wasn't long enough.

so the sucker eddie is, he came home and dropped off my ice cream.

then they headed to toys r us to walk around.

weekly update

the week leading up to christmas was no different than any other.

which seemed a little weird.

emi got a dog for christmas like she secretly wanted

except he wasn't to keep forever...nor was it the dog she wanted.

this is actually when we were driving him home after christmas i think.

but who cares! i actually took this picture:

to show how much makai loves ozzy

and how crazy makai is. when he is sleepy he covers his head.

miss no nap taking a nap...on the beach under her beach umbrella.

i was out running errand and eddie was with the kids.

somehow he always gets her to take a nap, but this time not on purpose.

i came home and makai was asleep.

i asked where emi was, as she usually comes running to me.

so i went into her room to check and on her and found this.

 

we had a few christmas books to pick up from the library

so we went a few days in a row.

on the first time there we noticed their new tablet feature.

emi was tickled pink that it was her most favorite book.

and every day after this visit she has asked to go back.

we did go back...and it has a different book each day.

makai is in heaven at the computer station.

this is where he learned to climb up chairs.

since they are shorter, smaller kids chairs.

if i turn my back for one second he is doing this.

or running towards the motion doors.

sleepy boy. this is a good sign he is ready for bed.

he plops himself down with his binkie and blanket.

you know he is really tired when he starts covering his head.

my helper! while emi is busy watching disney junior.

makai likes to help me sweep and wipe things.

he has a little kid broom, which was in the living room

but he likes anything his mama has and uses.

makai has a great personality. he is seriously so funny.

and he knows when he is being silly.

he loves to put this little hamper on his head.

just cause he knows we all think it's funny.

emi in her birds nest.

the last couple of weeks emi has taken off the cushions daily.

super annoying to put back but she loves it.

oh man! messy boy.

introduced him to ranch. he loved it!

i missed the picture but he got upset cause i wouldn't share my ranch at first.

so he put his head down on his peanut butter side up sandwich.

which then stuck to his forehead and eyelid.

he sat there for about 10 seconds looking at me, then emi...then me.

laughed about it, then pulled it off 2 seconds before i could take a picture.

this was a disaster. every time we go grocery shopping emi requests the car cart.

i always say, if there is one ok. but the seat belts have to work.

there wasn't one when we walked in, but as i buckled makai in a normal cart

in walks the worker with the car cart.

dang! should have walked and buckled at the same time. 

well...come to find out...the car also didn't have functioning seat belts.

instead of ripping out the heart of two excited kiddos.

i thought to myself...it couldn't be that bad.

it was. it was bad!! he wanted both wheels.

and every time i stopped, he thought it was time to get out.

oh you know...just relaxing in the chair watching some sesame street.

after finally accepting i had a head cold

even though my nose wasn't snotty, except in the morning.

i decided to finally take medicine. i never take medicine.

not even for a headache and i'm not sure why not. 

makai examined my grocery sack to see what goodies i had.

he was super impressed with my medicine.

what? do i have something in my teeth?!

this kid cracks us up. he was just being silly.

shaking that bread all around like a dog would.

spaghetti....their favorite....my worst dinner nightmare(clean up)

monster makai loves to get into anything and everything

and loves to throw and break things

in gma and gpa's non baby proofed house.

they say they don't care...until that ceramic bunny 

can't be super glued together for the 100th time.

so i tied him us with my jacket.

worked for 2.5 seconds until he face planted it a few times and couldn't get up

oh and he cried and cried. we all thought it was genius.

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