Football Fun

Last week we beat Lamar Consolidated 35-14 in a very fun home win. This was the first home game Em and I have gotten to go to thanks to the stomach bug a few weeks back. After home games, all the coaches families head back to the coaches' office and everybody brings their favorite appetizer or dessert...there was so much good food! All the kids get to play in the gym. Emerson was worn out and fell asleep between the stadium and the school but woke up before we left to be her usual social self! This week we headed to Brenham for our first district game and unfortunately fell to the Cubs 14-7. It was such a good game and we really should have beat them. It gives us a lot of confidence for the rest of the season because Brenham is ranked pretty high and we could have won. Emerson is apparently getting used to Friday nights. She fell asleep mid way through the 3rd quarter and woke up with about a minute left in the game to go down and see Daddy. How she can sleep through all that noise I will never know! She went back to sleep about 10 minutes into the ride home and didn't wake up again until 9 this morning!

How many of those quarters did you say there are, Mom?

Coach McGrath and Coach Brooks with their #1 cheerleaders, Maddy and Em

Is it game day again Mom? Yea!!!

Probably needless to say the bow didn't last long but she sure did look cute!

Coach Brooks making sure his defense is ready! The defense is what kept us in the game...they did an awesome job!

The sunset was absolutely beautiful for kickoff.

Meet the Teacher

Tuesday night was open house at Emerson's "school" so that parents could come meet the teachers. We have been so happy with The Academy and the teachers just love on Em constantly. Every morning when I take her she goes right to Miss Jennifer and is ready to play! That makes things much easier on Mommy! The things they made for us for open house were too cute.

Miss Jennifer

Miss Brenda

Miss Brandy

Is this cute or what?!

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during this project!

Em and Her Shoes

Ok here is a story to give everybody a laugh. MOST girls love shoes...count Em out of that! I have never put shoes on her because the couple of times I tried when she was a lot smaller I couldn't keep them on her. Being that she is pulling up and really trying to walk I thought it might be a good idea for her to start wearing shoes. The outfit I was putting on her to go to daycare this morning happened to have a very cute pair of matching shoes so I thought I would give it a try. I put them on her and she looked down at them and then up at me as if to say "what in the world are those?"! We were running a little late so I picked her up and out we went. When I walked in, the first thing Jennifer said was "you're wearing shoes!"...obviously this was a new thing! While I put her bag up Jennifer put her down to start playing and we made the hilarious discovery that thanks to the new shoes, Emerson had forgotten how to stand up. She started trying to pull herself up on the exersaucer, like she does every day, and she couldn't figure out how to get her feet flat on the floor. Jennifer grabbed her hands to try to get her to stand up that way and her legs would just turn to jello and she would sit down. Jennifer and I were laughing so hard we were pretty much in tears. Needless to say by the time I went to pick her up the shoes were in her bag!

I really don't know about these things Mom!

GO BEARS!!!!!

Last night was Emerson's first football game. We missed week one thanks to the stomach bug that ran through the house so we were excited that we were well and finally able to be at a game! We headed out to cheer on Daddy's Montgomery bears against Kingwood Park. She had a blast! She was absolutely exhausted by the end of it but was happy as could be the whole time we were there. All her cheering helped in the 31-17 win for the bears!

Not really sure what the expression is on her face but I think she was ready to get on the road and stop taking pictures!

Hey Mom, when do I get to see Daddy?

Good job Daddy!

Crawling? That's Boring!

Well, after a mere 6 days of crawling, Emerson was totally bored with it and on to the next challenge-standing! The Sunday after she started crawling, she was able to pull herself up on things. It started out of course on things that were pretty low and she could get some leverage. A week later I found her standing in her crib chewing on the top railing when I went to get her from a nap. She works herself around the ottomans and is already convinced that she is good enough to let go. Um, not quite... we have had quite a few tumbles but it doesn't slow her down in the least. She looks around like "whoa, what just happened?!", shakes it off and pulls back up to try again! We are also fully into the process of learning what is Em's and what is Mommy and Daddy's. Something tells me that might be a long process!

I thought she was following me from her room to the laundry room-she took a detour to check out the pictures in the entryway.

Who knew door stops could be so much fun? Mommy didn't realize that they were also a choking hazard...those little caps come off the ends! Wow, so much to learn!

Who needs to sit in the exersaucer?!

She is going to have strong legs-you rarely find her sitting anymore regardless of where you leave her.

Look Ma...one hand!!!