weekly update

another week has flown by.

we haven't had cable since we moved out of my parents house

a luxury emi enjoys when we go over their house.

well poppy and momo bought us apple tv....

eddie gets espn and emi gets disney junior.

so she has been catching up on tv. she could watch tv all day if i let her.

on friday emi had the 'share can'

they are learning the letter E.

so she was asked to bring items that start with the letter E.

she brought an elephant, envelope, egg, picture of an eskimo, an eggplant

and an eraser....which she handed out to each of her classmates.

she was so excited it was her turn.

while emi was at school i hit up a huge consignment sale.

i was super disappointed. just a bunch of junk.

but i did end up getting this keyboard....

i heard meow the whole way home, every 3 seconds.

not the best purchase, noise wise. but it was super duper cheap. 

growing up we ate spaghetti way too many times.

so the point that i don't really enjoy it.

well i decided to make it this past week, as emi loves spaghetti.

makai loved it too. guess we'll have it more often.

wish it wasn't so messy but he ate a ton.

those eyes! so weird to think some girl is gonna fall in love with those baby blues.

emi refuses to take a nap, even though she needs one

she is crabby and by 5, she is really difficult to deal with.

i have been trying to lay down with her in an attempt to get her to rest.

it usually back fires, i fall asleep and she just plays her leap pad.

friday night we had our ward trunk or treat.

emi decided she wanted to be a princess.

guess she'll be a minion on halloween night.

she had so much fun and even went through the haunted house.

i meant to spray paint that crown gold but never got to it.

oh my goodness!! eddie had a "team building activity" for work

bunch of bull....a friend at work was having a ufc fight get together.

he was in charge of bringing a dessert.

he requested cake batter cobbler, which requires a whole stick of butter. 

as i was slicing the butter to top the cake batter...

emi was drooling!! she loves butter. she just wanted one slice.

i wouldn't give her any. so when i walked away she started licking the wrapper.

so gross!! but i guess it was better than a slice.

finally gave this babe a haircut.

every morning and after his nap he was waking up with crazy bed head.

lately this boy is only taking one nap...grrr..

so he is out by 6:30. he will only snuggle when exhausted.

snuggling with gpa.

he cracks me up...he is go, go, go....all the time.

then he'll take a minute to snuggle

then he is back to his normal craziness...running around

getting into anything and everything....throwing pumpkins.

the weather here has been crazy.

freezing in the morning, like 50's and then by the afternoon it is in the 80's

so emi has been wearing "winter" clothes to school

then comes home and changes into her summer clothes.

emi is super weird about her sleeves on her shirts, so i thought for sure

she would freak out about a turtleneck, "not feeling right".

i love this boy so much! but he is trouble.

i was working on some primary stuff and he was trying to pull anything 

and everything off emi's side of the desk.

and every time i would look his way, he gave me this face.

seriously the cutest boy ever. but i'm probably biased.

emi made a pumpkin face.

she told me she could be a pumpkin for halloween.

so many ideas...not even days to celebrate halloween.

every time makai sees the flash on my phone

or even the flashlight on my phone

he makes his scrunchy nose face...this is the tail end of it

but he got his first fang tooth, bottom right.

so he is up to 13 teeth!! he just woke up one day and there it was.

mama milk drunk....he can't give it up

i nursed emi until she was 18 months.

but that was mainly because she had food allergies.

i am ready and willing to give up nursing.

and he goes to sleep just fine without it.

but what do i do when he wakes up at 4am and woke go back to sleep

crying, and making the N noise to nurse. and shaking his head yes.

some days he doesn't wake up until 6am.

but i don't want to get up at 4am. i'm scared to just quit and he isn't ready.

i thought this is hilarious, cause this is how he looks on the first side

after not nursing all day or all night.

this picture is horrible quality but so cute.

every morning makai does this when eddie leaves.

he waves bye to him as he walks out the door

then waits there until eddie looks at him and waves.

then makai bangs on the window and waves.

makai stands there like this until eddie drives away.

it's so cute! i should probably record it.

this girl has such a mouth lately.

any time i reprimand her for anything she fights me.

like she has room to negotiate. or she flat out tells me no.

sometimes she huffs and puffs at me, other times she says:

 yes, yes yes! of course, when i ask her to do something.

and she bullies makai...teasing him when she is playing with his toys.

i thought she could use some one on one time

so instead of getting a million things done while monster makai is asleep

we played games and worked on some halloween educational worksheets.

she loved hungry hungry hippo

i thought it was hilarious how she would count her balls.

and if i ever got the yellow one, she would yell time out!!

and do the gesture for time out.

she would say, game over....you got the yellow ball.

when we drop emi off at school, she usually has finished projects

so as makai and i walked back to the car, we played pumpkin head.

he seriously is such a cute kid.

gg ordered dimples and she got one.

this is from today. as i was eating breakfast while watching tv this morning.

makai was at the table eating his breakfast.

well somehow he got a hold of emi's paper and pencil.

he kept looking back at me like this, thinking he was being sneaky.

he has such a fun personality.