Some Emme Stuff...

Two of Emme's new favorite things to do:

Crawl under the table and look for scraps (like Kix and Cheerios that she likes to throw from her chair)

Pull all laundry out of the basket and throw it on the floor. (She doesn't care if it has been folded or not; she's not picky!)

We are now calling Emme "Rudolph"-she fell and got rugburn on her nose.

Palm Desert

We had a great time in Palm Desert!! We spent 4 fun (and hot) days swimming, eating and sleeping...wish we could do this once a month...

Feeding the ducks outside our room.

This is Owen's way of relaxin'--he loves his music!!

All the kids get a chance to feed the koi every morning.

Scott and Owen found a ping-pong table and had fun playing (well, chasing the balls that Owen tried to hit!)

Grrrrr---Owen the shark!!

They had an adorable kiddie pool area with fountains that shot up out of the ground...Emme thought these fountains were so much fun!

Taking a break between trips to the pool.

On our last night, they had a "dive-in" movie...lucky for Owen they were showing Wall-E, one of Owen's favorite movies!!!

Hanging out while waiting for the movie to start.

Owen caught a praying mantis while we were packing up the car to go home; he wanted to bring him home with us in this cup!

Nice tan line!!!!

Owen Swimming--Short Video

We just got home from Palm Desert and I wanted to post a little video clip I took of Owen. While on this trip, I taught him how to dive into a pool and swim under water-something he would never have attempted in swim class. Look how much he learned in just 4 days!! (I will post pictures from our trip sometime soon!)

All done with swim class...

Owen finished his swim classes last week and is such a better swimmer than he was at the start of summer. We decided that we are going to keep him enrolled in swim year round (the pool he takes them at offers classes for kids on Satuday mornings all year).

On their last day of class, the instructors let all the kids put on lifejackets so they could jump off the blocks into the deep end. Owen thought is was sooo much fun!!

Dodgers Game

On the 21st, Scott got great tickets for free from work, so we took the kids to a Dodgers game. Owen got some cotton candy and had a great time watching the game! Emme had fun making faces at the people behind us. Fun night!!

Emme Crawling : Short Video

Time to babyproof again...

Emme's New Crib

Emme is now a big girl and is sleeping in her crib, instead of the bassinet. She now is crawling and we figured she might try to escape the bassinet! Owen helped me put the crib together then rearrange the furniture in his room to make space for his little sister--as soon as it was all assembled, he wanted to let Emme try it out!