We Have Speech!! (Well, Sort Of...)

Emmett has finally started saying a few words!  We really haven't been too worried about him, because Jackson took a long time to talk, too, and is totally fine now.  But it's so great to hear E making an effort to say some things!  So far he'll say "Mama," "Dada," "All Done," and "Buh-Bye."  Don't get me wrong, though, he doesn't say those things all the time, but every once in a while he will blurt them out and we get so excited!  The cutest thing he does right now, though, is make a "Grrrr!" noise whenever he sees trains in his train books that have grumpy faces.  I ask him to make the noise over and over because it cracks me up.  I took a video of it, but you'll have to excuse my annoying question-asking if you watch it.  I was trying to get him to say some of the words that he knows, but he was too focused on getting Phil to read his favorite book to answer me.


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I've had a cold since Christmas, so we've been laying really low at home lately. I just can't find the energy to bundle everyone up to get out of the house.  The boys have been really good about having to stay home, although we have been watching more TV than usual. I promise to be better about TV watching when I get some energy back and start feeling better!  I'm hoping that I don't have to wait until the baby is born for that to happen.

Here are some pictures from around the house the past few days:

Emmett enjoying a peanut butter and jelly sandwich...

And some other cute Emmett pictures...

Jackson came out of his room after his nap the other day with his socks on his hands.  It made me laugh so I had to take a picture.  He was actually very accommodating with the picture-taking for once and even looked at the camera and smiled a little!

I had put up all of our Christmas decorations before we left for Florida in the middle of November, so I was totally sick of them the day after Christmas.  I took them down that very next day.  Then I felt bad for our pretty trees that sacrificed themselves for our pleasure.  They were still mostly alive and even still smelled really good and I hated to just chuck them out the door.

So Phil stuck them behind our fence standing up so we could still look at them all winter until they get brown and nasty.  I feel like maybe they're happy spending their last days outside in their element.

Jackson was pushing a truck around the house the other day and fell forward and hit his nose on it.  He got a big scrape under his nose and it was gushing blood.  I was pretty scared because I haven't seen that much blood coming from one of my babies before, but it stopped pretty quickly and he was okay.  We snuggled on the couch and watched Thomas for a little bit right after it happened and that made things a little better.

Hope everyone is healthy at your house!