The Howells

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Brody - talking more, Emery - crying less!

Emery is 2 months old and Brody is 22 months old now. Life is still crazy busy, but I think we are getting better at it - it doesn't take me a whole hour to get out of the house now! We have been keeping busy this summer - lots of time with Grandparents and family and friends!

Emery's update - 10lb, 2 oz (15th percentile) and 21 and 1/2 inches (7th percentile) - she is just a little smaller than Brody was at 2 months, but they are very close. I really think we have turned a corner now - Emery cries a LOT less! She still cries when she is tired or hungry, but not all day or without a reason. She is starting to "talk" and smile and she loves watching Brody play. She has outgrown most of her newborn clothes and is wearing adorable 0-3 month dresses! She has rolled from her belly to back twice!

Brody's update - such a happy boy all of the time! He is very strong-willed and knows what he wants! He sleeps from about 8 to 7:30 and takes about a 2 hour nap. He is starting to put words together and is so much fun to talk to! He tries to say sentences, but can't always get it all out. He is also starting to "pretend" - he loves to "cook" and mow and weed eat!

Emery wasn't too happy to take this 2 month old picture!

Our supermen...Emery at 2 months old...

And Brody at 2 months old!! Emery really does look a lot like Brody did as a baby!

Brody and I went to Wild River Country a couple of weeks ago and he loved it. There was 1 slide we could do together, and we did it a million times! He wanted "more, more"!

Sweet baby girl! We love the bows!

About to go to a girl's day out in Little Rock with the girls from our Community Group at church

Loving the Bumbo and Boppy!

Tom had a baseball tournament here last weekend, so we got to spend time with Matt, Libby, Tom, Austin, and Gram and Pop! It was lots of fun!

Tom and Uncle Matt

Emery did great at all of the games!

Austin and Brody had so much fun playing!

Tom playing...

Playing with Annie and Walker in the water

doing some "cooking"

Blueberries!!

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Funland playdate and more!

Brody and I had a Mommy and Brody day last week at Funland in NLR while Gram kept Emery. Brody had so much fun riding the rides there. He was so independent and always wanted

"more, more"!
This was his serious face that he always had on the rides, even though he loved it...

He loved driving the cars!

Loved the roller coaster - it was really cool and fast!

Later that evening, we met Daddy for dinner...

We went to a birthday party for Madison at JumpZone on Saturday...

Happy boy! Later this day, Brody woke up from a nap with a fever of 104.5! That slowed us down for a while, but he is all better now and luckily Emery didn't get it.

Sweet baby girl! At least she is sweet when she isn't crying!

Getting ready to mow...

Going for a walk. Brody likes to have "two" crackers!

We went to Wynne last week to see everyone and watch Tom play baseball...

Brody just loves Tom and Austin!

Brody is "weed eating" at Gram and Pops - he just picked up this random pipe and starting making "ZZZZZZZ" noises and we figured out he was weed eating! It is the cutest thing - he weed did this all over the house!!