2 out of 9?

Little Ulee gave us quite a scare a few weeks ago. He started throwing up blood :( Of course, Dave wasn't home and I'm not the most dignified cat health expert. I tried to clean it up so Emily wouldn't see and wait it out until he either got better or worse, or until Dave got home to figure out what to do. But, he ended up doing it upstairs when she was up there and it naturally made her very sad and very scared :( I am so not ready to do the 'pet death' talk with her yet, and I'm sure it will be fast approaching given the ages of our pets. Anyways, he eventually quit throwing up, but then he secluded himself in the basement for several days, no eating, drinking, litter box using....so we expected the worst. Dave took him to the vet since he was going to be gone and well, quite honestly, I didn't want him dying when Dave wasn't home. Low and behold, he seemed to check out fine at the vet, with just a case of nasty dehydration. Came home, took some more time to himself in the basement, did a little more throwing up (but not blood) and eventually started eating and drinking some. After a few more days, he seemed to be back to normal! So after the bladder (and money) draining episode of 2004, we'll say he is on #3 of his 9 lives.

An Emily funny...

I found her old brown flip flops with the pink skulls on them and had her try them on because they are getting pretty small. She puts them on and with her head turned, looking at them behind her, she says "Yeah, they are way too old. They don't even flip anymore!"

Words, Words, and more Words

Luke has become quite the chatterbox.

Emily and I came up with a list of the words he says (it's kind of funny too because after he says something, she says "Did you write that down?!?")

Clear as a bell....

Mama, Dada, Papa, Nana, Baby, Boot, Bike, Ball, Moon, Bus, Fish, Mine!, Milk, Uh-Oh!, Backpack, Woof- Woof, Cheese, Up, Out, Dirt, Porch, Bye-Bye, Bubble, Sissy....


Words only a mother would know....

Melmo (Elmo), Popical (Popsicle), Boo-Boo (Boobie), Nack (snack), Taaa-eee! (Tanner, and mostly yelled if food is dropped), Pook (Spook, the cat), Mow Mow (Meow Meow, which is said like the beginning of Mouse, it means CAT to Luke), Pu-eee (Puppy), Teet (Treat, as in dog treat), Nigh-Nigh, guck (duck), Pooooo! (could be his own, the dogs, or the cats), wing (swing), pay (play), ba-ball (baseball), pu-ball (football), uke (Luke), Aaaappp! (apple), ba-ba (water bottle) dink (drink)...

And I'm sure there's ones I've forgot. It sure is fun having someone else to chat with!

Lucky kid

2 parks in 1 morning!

One on One

Pail....$1.99

Shovel...$.99

Rocks...Free!

2.5 hours alone with Mommy...Priceless.

Backyard fun

Mommy turned actress

Some park fun after preschool!

Emily has been doing lots of role playing lately, and of course, I end up getting persuaded into her "acts." This was a typical conversation at the playground today...

Emily (as she's ducking out from under the slide) : Hey, Mommy. I'm a turtle who lives under here and when I come out you have to say "Oh, look, a little turtle!" And then you need to do this with your hands *motions what I'm supposed to do* so I crawl to you. And than you have to say "Lukey, look, a turtle! I didn't know a turtle lived under there!"

So, as I do and say what she says, I get to the last phrase "Look, a turtle! I didn't know a turtle lived under there!"

Emily: No! LUKEY, look, a turtle! I didn't know etc...etc...etc...

Sorry, kid. Forgot a word.

She's into playing "Store", "Restaurant", "School", "Librarian", *which is my personal favorite. I just have to listen to her 'read.'


Just a drawing by Emily I thought was worth remembering......

first day

Monday, September 8 2008.

Emily's 3rd year of preschool started last week! This year she is going the same Monday/Wednesday/Friday mornings we did last year, but we added the Tuesday afternoon kindergarten readiness class. She loves it and can't wait for Kindergarten!

I admit...

I love that it's getting darker earlier. Dark outside = bedtime.

Enjoying the new swingset.

Luke's plead to Papa to build him a proper sandbox...

emily

And no, I never did get a picture of them all looking...

In the spinning apple. Luke wasn't a fan of the spinning.

Ferguson's

We made our first trip this year to an apple orchard after Labor Day weekend. Of course, we picked the hottest day ever in September to go, so it didn't feel very 'apple orchard-y', but still fun.



Luke's favorite thing...the old smelly apple orchard dog.

baby blues

"Bu bye da u"

translation: Bye Bye, Love you.

Luke has started saying this to everything, even airplanes.

gone are the days....

of dirty kids. At least until next summer.