another molar is coming

Treys bottom right molar is making its appearance. Finally. today I noticed a sharp little cusp breaking through. His tender gums look swollen and red and a little bloody. Poor little man. But honestly his attitude has not changed one bit and he is as happy and playful as always.
I LOVE MY LITTLE MAN!!!!!

Update (20 minutes later): just kidding.  As I looked a little closer, the blood was because trey sliced his gum somehow. There was a little flap of tissue that I rubbed off.  Amazing how the body (especially the mouth) heals so quickly because by bedtime it looked like nothing happend. But yes, I do still see a little white cusp making its way up. Yay for chomping molars!!! Hahahaha

recipe group

Our ward Relief Society president asked me to start up a recipe group. Basically what it is is you have a topic or theme and everyone brings that dish along with the recipe and you have a tasting party and go home with new recipes. Fun right?! Well, not too many people in the ward think so. I did one last October and only 2 people came. I told them I wasn't going to do it in November and December because of the craziness of the holidays and I would just start it up again in the new year. Well, January is here (almost over) and so I needed to follow through and start the recipe group up again. I did it tonight and once again, 2 people came. ( not the same ones from October) actually only one person from the ward because the second person was my neighbor, Barb! Which is totally fine, except that I spend 2 days cleaning my house! UGH! oh, well.
 I am alternating evening and daytime times so next month will be at the park. I'm hoping to get more that a couple people there, but at least next time it would just feel like I am taking my kids to the park even if nobody shows up.

life on a farm

We like to come hang out with the farm animals. The kids throw chicken food out on the ground and we give Reggie a snack of some 'soft hay' (what Emmry calls brumuta hay). Then we play horse shoes. That's how we like our days on the farm to be- low key and fun.

Bath time

It's quiet time. Trey is sound asleep and Emmry and I are having our one on one quiet time. We are playing dolls and Emmry wanted to give her baby a bath so I got out the infant tub and we pretended to give her doll a bath. Then I proceeded to teach Emmry how to put on a diaper and get a baby dresses.

horse show....again

Today I took the kids back over to Scottsdale to the horse show. What can I say?! We like to just hang out with lots of horses!
My friend Stefanie came with her daughter, Sofia and my friend Melissa came with Brock.
There wasn't anything going on today as far as the competitions so we just watched them practice.

Horse Show

West World Horse Show

'L' is for Lion

I went to check out Happy Apple preschool for Emmry today. (actually I signed her up!) They were working on the letter "L" and painted lions on paper plates. Emmry wanted to do it so when we got home we busted out the paints and had a little lesson on the letter "L"!

(I took this picture a few days after we made them and I couldn't find Emmrys lion. This is a picture of Trey's lion which actually Emmry called hers because she liked it better than the one she made.)

Pick your battles

I wish I got a picture of Emmry today as we went to church. She wore a colorful fluffy tutu over her dress, a winter scarf with pink hearts, and had her little pink lala loopsy backpack with 5 containers of cupcake sprinkles in it.
She sure makes me smile. Love her to pieces.
Honestly I didn't fight her at all with how she wanted to go to church.

date night

last nights date night consisted of me going to get Smash burger and Ty and I standing at the kitchen counter eating it together as the kids play in the tent.

please sleep

It's 3:07pm. I tried to lay Trey down for a nap around his usual nap time (1:00pm-ish) but he just didn't want to go down. So, I took him out of the crib and we played for a little while more. Then I tried to put him down again around 2:50pm. Nope, He wasn't haven' it. But I was done and needed some quiet time so I loaded up the kiddos in the car to go for a drive to get Mr. Treyzer asleep. I could tell that Emmry would sleep if she was strapped into the car too, but I didn't bank on that. All I really wanted was for Trey to go to sleep.
3:02pm I pull in the driveway with one child awake and the other asleep. Except the child that I really hoped for to be asleep was still awake. Darn. I took Trey straight to his crib and layed him down. He screamed. (and still is....it is 3:14pm now) and then I put Emmry to bed. I'm hoping that Trey will calm down soon otherwise I will be tempted to go in and get him and forgo the whole nap thing with him today.

Camera in hand

I took a picture of the kids helping me put together a cabinet I bought at IKEA today and then Emmry said she wanted to take a picture of me. I let her, but then she wouldn't give me the camera back. She went around the house taking random pictures of everything. I honestly didn't care and was happy she wanted to take pictures. Teaching her young to document not only the big things in life, but the small things too....like shirts and shoes. Hahahaha
Here are some of the ones I found on the camera.
(Pics) shoes, trey, floor, shirt, horse, dad, Tage , me. The cabinet we just put together.
It was funny going through the pictures. I never knew what the next picture would look like.
I the best part of it all was seeing the smile she had on her face the entire time and running around saying, "me take a picture of_________"(fill in the blank). And showing excitingly showing me the picture. It was cute.

Sunbeam/Jr. Primary

Sniff, sniff, sniff.
Hold on, let me wipe my tears away.
Emmry is no longer in nursery and is a Sunbeam in Primary.
I can't believe my baby girl is this grown up.
Today was so much harder that the first day of nursery. Honestly, I was shouting for joy when I could drop her off at nursery because I could actually pay attention in my classes. Those few months right before their 18 month mark allowing them to go to nursery are tough. I seem to roam the halls or pay more attention to my child that I do the lesson and teacher.
After sacrament meeting Emmry and I stopped into nursery to say hi to her 'old' teachers. Emmry gave them a picture she had drew (a horse or course) and said thanks for being her teacher. At first she didn't want to leave and wanted to stay to play. She helped take out all the toys and get the room ready for all the little kids going to nursery then said goodbye and we went to the primary room. She sat right next to her teachers chair and her friend CC sat on the other side of her. She was a happy camper and excited to be a big girl in sunbeams!!!

Miss Emmry,
Welcome to Junior Primary. Welcome to Sunbeams. You are officially the newest Sunbeam in the Peoria North Stake, West Wing Ward.

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I love you my sweetheart.
xoxoxox,
Mom.

"Stop a say it"

I probably hear that phrase at least 15 times a day. no joke.
"Stop a say it" means 'don't talk' or she doesnt like your answer in Emmry language.
This phrase has been coming out of her month for years now.
she cracks me up.

Cutting it cold turkey

I figured since Trey was days from turning 17 months I should wean him off breastfeeding. Just up until 4 days ago I was nursing him to go to sleep both nap time and bedtime. (He only takes one nap; has been down to one nap for awhile now) so unless we are in the car around the time he wants to nap and he falls asleep I would have to nurse him before I would lay him in his crib. and the same thing for bedtime; nurse then put to bed. I would also feed him if he woke up in the middle of the night. Sadly, usually he wakes up one time a night at least 4 day/week. But I honestly don't mind.

Well, January 1st was it. I was cutting him cold turkey.
It now has been 4 consecutive days that I have not fed him when I put him to bed and each day I have been home at the time I put him to bed so I didn't use the car as an escape. BUT I didn't cut him cold turkey. He has woke up 1 time the first 2 nights- around the 5am time frame, and last night was earlier - around 11:30pm.  I don't know how to wean him off from those feedings. I understand it is just for comfort, but I don't want him to just scream and wake everyone up and I want to comfort him. It must be a motherly thing to want to just cuddle and calm them down. plus, I want to sleep myself.
so, I am anticipating another feeding tonight, but I do have to give myself a pat on the back for knocking out the nap and bedtime feedings.

{nap and bedtime routine; yes, I do this for nap time too.}
rinse all his binks off (he would have anywhere from 2-5binks. depending on how many we lost/found that day)
read a book while having his milk sippy cup next to me (he never wants a drink though)
sing "I am a Child of God"
walk over to the light switch and HE turns it off
give him hugs and kisses, say i love you's and good night.
Put him in bed and walk out.
Done.
I honestly have been SHOCKED that NOT ONCE has he cried any longer that 15 seconds (and that was only on the first day at nap time. every time since he doesn't even make a peep)

Sweet dreams, Treyzer!
Mommy loves you!

17 months

I can't believe my little man is 17 months!!
Where on earth did the time go?!?!
I love watching him run. His cute little legs seem to go as fast as they possibly can and his arms move back and forth just as fast as his legs. It is the cutest thing in the world to watch.
He is 'talking' so much more lately. words he commonly uses are: ball, bowl, wow, woof (referring to dog), NO, uh-oh, mom, dad.
He gets excited to get in the bath/shower.
Likes to be back with the chickens and Reggie.
is a total boy- he would throw, or hit with anything he can get his hands on.
gets excited when he sees tractors
likes to play with toy trucks, tractors, trains, any plastic animals- likes them all, but especially the dinosaurs.
favorite song is "the dinosaur song" we sing at music makers. He likes the part where we 'ROAR'
has the cutest/funniest fake cry. I like to watch him fake cry because he scrunches up his nose and looks at me like,"look mom, I'm crying." seriously so funny and cute.

He definatley is a mommas boy. I'm working on getting him a little detached from me. I tease tyson that I am going on a week long girls trip just so trey would do more with him and not me. Tyson doesn't think that its a good idea though.

I am so in love with my little stud muffin. He melts my heart everyday.

new teeth

When did this happen?!?!
Tyson and Tage asked me today if I knew that Trey had new molar teeth (yes, plural, not singular-teeth!)
I said, "What?!" "No!"
When on earth did this happen?!
Sure enough. Both top molars are barely popped in and his bottom left molar is poked through too.

Now before you say that I am not an observant mother let me say this, "I  brush his teeth every night. I promise I do."
I know for a fact that last night he did not have the bottom left molar. I definitely would have notice that. Now as for the top molars, I can't promise anything. I just stick the tooth brush or rubber baby finger brush in his mouth and wiggle it around in hopes I am doing some good. Thats what I consider tooth brushing at this age. So I don't know exactly when the top teeth popped in, but I could only imagine it has been within the past couple days because I could tell they have just barely cut through.

2014

Hap hap happy new year!!!!
I hope I can keep up with it.

One more 'Emmry' saying.....

"Do you hear that with your ears."
That's what she says as she puts her hand up to her ear when she asks if we hear something.
Love her.