Well Needed Update

Well it has been a while...life really got busy as I went back to work full time. I sort of have an unspoken goal of a post a week...and it has almost been a month. Oops.

Here are some pictures of my babies sitting together.

Emma is really starting to be alert. She loves to watch everything that is going on. I love her big dark blue eyes. I hope they stay blue, but I wouldn't be too surprised if the changed.

Madison has been using a few signs to help her communicate. Here she is in the process of signing more...which she uses all the time. More juice...more food...more fun...


Emma is starting to smile and coo. I have a feeling she is going to be just as talkative as her big sister.

Cool Shades!

If Madison is hungry, and we ask her if she wants to eat, she will walk over to her high chair and grab the footrest. I guess this is her own sign for eat.

We are in the process of building a pole barn. Here are some progress pictures.




We now have all of the trusses up and are getting ready to sheet the roof. We will then poor a concrete floor in one half of the building before sheeting the sides.

Daddy and his baby.

Madi and her bubbles...she likes playing with the bubbles in the bathtub.

Playing Great-Grandma Hitt's piano.

Emma and her friend PJ who was born 6 weeks after Emma. Here they are at 7 weeks and 1 week. It was hard telling which baby is bigger.

Madison is playing in Grammy Tammi's pantry in this video. She loves to rearrange the spices.

And for all of the out of town grandparents who haven't had the chance to meet Emma yet, here is a video of her stretching and cooing.

Four Generation Pictures

A few weeks ago, we took pictures with my Grandpa Hitt. He really seems to enjoy his great-granddaughters. After he had been holding Emma for a while, I asked if he was ready for me to take her, and he said that she was just fine where she was. I am glad that he gets to enjoy his great-grandchildren.

Here are the best of the bunch:

NASA

Brandon's drafting classes have been working with NASA this year through the HUNCH project. Here is an article in the Gillette Newsrecord you should check out if you are interested. It is pretty cool. :)

http://gillettenewsrecord.com/articles/2010/05/10/news/today/news03.txt

My Girls

Emma Lea Ruth will be 4 weeks old on Tuesday. Time is going by so quickly, I can't believe that it has already been 4 weeks since she joined our family.

Madison is such a great big sister. She loves knowing where Emma is, and wants to be touching her when they are close together. We do have to watch her because she also wants to put her fingers in Emma's mouth or up her nose, which Emma is not too fond of.

Here are my girls:


I can hear the phone calls home from school already for Miss Madison. I can see her being the class clown for sure. She is always trying to be the center of attention, and loves being silly.

She is really good about entertaining herself. She loves playing with her toys, and really likes the huge stuffed bunnies that Emma and I received for Easter.

It is a rare occasion when I can get her to stay still long enough to pose for a picture these days. She is always on the move, and is interested in anything electronic, including the camera.

But when I got her to pose, she posed, and I got some great pictures of her. I am thinking that some of these need to find a place on our wall. :)





I thought Madi had outgrown the bouncy chairs she used as a baby. However, she now uses them more now than she ever did before. She will bring her books, baby dolls and blankets to the chair, crawl into it herself, and "read" to her dolls. She also enjoys rocking in the chair to get it to bounce.






I got tired of having to lock and unlock the cabinets in our kitchen, so I rearranged the cabinets this week. Madi decided to help.


Emma is changing every day. She loves to cuddle and to be held close. She sleeps very well at night, which makes my life so much easier. I have been working every other day since she was two weeks old, so it is very nice to only get up once or twice a night already.

I was finally able to get some decent pictures of her awake this week, so at last I have some new pictures to share of our little Emma Lea.



Some pictures of her sure look like Madison at that age, but others look as distinctly unique as are our two girls. I am curious to see how they each will change as they grow.

Emma gives lots of smile-like looks. I'm sure they are just gas, but it is nice to pretend she is smiling at us already. Here is a half smile I caught on camera.


Well I better get to bed. Madi will be up bright and early wanting to play, and I need to get some rest before then. Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Golfing Madison Style

This past weekend, my grandparents drove up from Colorado to meet EmmaLea and to help celebrate my aunt Angie's graduation from nail tech school. They brought Madison a set of little kids golf clubs. She has been playing with the golf clubs and the golf balls separately since, but never really showed any interest in putting the two items together. That is until this morning.

Madison was playing in the living room. She found one of the golf balls and carried it to the middle of the living room floor. She then went over and picked up one of the golf clubs, the driver, and brought it to the golf ball. She carefully cleared away the other toys in the way, and then she hit the golf ball with the club. She chased the ball around the living room, hitting it with the driver, for several minutes. After every hit, she would look up at me and give me a huge grin.

I should have gone to get the camera, but I was nursing Emma and didn't want Madi to get distracted when I moved. We will have to try and catch that one on film.

A post from Grammy Tammi

Thursday April 15

Tonight Madi and I went to the library. As part of National Library Week, a jazz septet called CoalTrane played for 90 minutes. (I always thought we had to be quiet in the library, but not tonight!) Madi enjoyed the music. We sat quietly for a couple of numbers, we danced for a couple, we toured the library and checked out the children’s area. On Thursdays they have pajama story time, but we’d already been there over an hour and decided to come home. We did check out a book – a fun rhyming book about dance steps – and we returned one of the books I had checked out for her a week before. As her first experience with live music, and her first experience in the library, Madi seemed enthralled with both. You can bet we’ll be back before long.

Grammy Tammi

Just the 4 of us

Well we have been a family of four for 11 days now. The transition has gone fairly smoothly except for the fact that Madi and I came down with a nasty cold last weekend. I am finally starting to feel like myself although I still have a deep cough. Madi still has a terrible runny nose although her cough seems to have subsided. Hopefully we will both make a full recovery soon.

Emma Lea seems to be a pretty content baby so far. She is a great sleeper and seems to be taking everything in when she is awake. She goes in for her two week check up on Monday. She looks more like Madi every day. I am sure that as they get older they will be mistaken for twins...and when with cousin Aiden, triplets.
Here is Emma now...

Here is Madi when she was about 1 month old...

Quite the resemblance!

Madi loves her baby sister. She always wants to know what is going on and wants to know where Emma is at all times. When getting ready for bed a few nights ago, I put Emma into her crib while I got Madi ready for her bath on the changing table next to Emma's crib. Madi was not happy until she was sitting right next to Emma. It is precious how fast Madison decided to love her sister. I sure hope that lasts.

Here are Daddy's three girls. He is getting ready to leave for a few days to go to his best friend's wedding in Las Vegas. We will miss him greatly while he is gone.

Daddy got some good cuddle time in with his littlest one tonight while Mommy was putting Madi to bed. It was such a cute pose, I couldn't resist getting a couple of pictures.

We received a lot of flowers when Emma was born, they are still in great shape. Here are a few of the arrangements...our counter is covered with flowers.

I also realized I never posted any pictures of Emma's room. It is a work in progress as it is also currently the office. Eventually, the walls will be green and a matching wall paper border will be added. But this will have to wait until we have a new space for Brandon's office. He jokes that his world is being taken over by babies...first his theater room, then the bar, and now his office.

Of course we can't forget about our toddler...Madi is full of energy and is either moving or sleeping. It is getting more challenging to get good pictures of her, as she is more interested in playing with the camera than posing for pictures.

She often looks like she is trying to figure out how to get into mischief. I am afraid that she will be our boundary tester...she will always be trying to figure out how to get away with things. :)

Well I suppose I should get Emma's bath ready so that I can go to bed before too long. I start back to work part time on Thursday, so it is time already to instigate a bed-time routine so that I can get good sleep before having to be at school at 7 am. :)

Pictures of our newest addition

Here are some quick pictures of Emmalea.






Emma and I are both doing well. We are planning on going home this morning. I am sure anxious to see my other baby girl. Due to RSV season, Madison was not able to come back to meet Emma except through the window, so I can't wait for them to meet later today. I will post her birth story later once we get home.

Emmalea Ruth Cone

Emma was born this morning at 8:17am 4-6-10 19.25 inches long 7.22 lbs. Jami will post pictures and more later.