Our Brave BIG Lion

A friend sent this for Emmett last month and I thought it was cute.  Then I put it on him and was in love.  Just when you thought your kid couldn't get any cuter ;)

 (sidenote;  He's looking at an iPad with the front camera working, so he's

 seeing himself in costume and roaring at the 'other' lion)

For Da-ee!

We went on a hayride today without Daddy, so these are for him! We went to the 'beach' after (Horn Pond, just a few miles away from us). Emmett is obsessed with the beach lately-he can be tricked into believing the beach is anywhere that has water and rocks to throw or sand to dig.We took my sisters, who are in town!!!  (YAY for sisters!) and Grandma and baby cousin Adrik, who Emmett loves.

Here's a Halloween shout out to all our friends in NM! 

(trick or treating aliens from a UFO crash)

 

Emmett sat down in the middle of the mall the other day and put his arms out.  I had run into the pharmacy before and left him with Besty and Ren.  Besty said he kept doing this and couldn't figure out what he wanted.  I laughed-this is what he does when he wants to hold Baby Ben, who lives close by. He just sits down with his arms out.  So he sat on the floor of the mall and held his visiting baby cousin.  It was pretty cute, but the lady that almost tripped over them seemed annoyed.  We've caught Emmett a few times sitting down waiting for someone to hand him a baby.  Here's his latest catch tonight.  

answer key

You can see how one thing led to another and he got himself up under the crib! There's a rut for an oxygen tank or something that was a perfect road for the truck to ride in. He loved it under there.

look at that face

Emmett's feeding tube came out last Thursday night. Usually he gets his feeds over night and to have the tube replace we either have the VNA (visiting nurse) come to the house, or we have to go down to the ER. Since we were planned for an admission and chemo on Friday morning, we just waited it out and decided he'd be ok til the morning. In the meantime, we were able to see his face for a while for the first time in months.

 Here's the handsome little devil...and Emmett looks pretty good, too ;)

He's gotten lazy in his sign language, but this is him signing for candy. The sign is really done on your cheek, but he's used to tape being on his cheek and is very cautious of his tubing, so he signs it on his chin now.  There's a CVS/drugstore in the lobby of Children's and he usually picks out a bag of candy there (and pretty much never eats it, but he loves the tradition and likes to pick something out and swipe the credit card). This is him in the parking garage Friday morning (he wanted to stay in his jammies).  He recognizes where we are and starts asking for candy before we're even out of the car usually.

Where's Emmett?

Here's his crib and his IV pole behind it with chemo running, so there's proof that he's got to be close by.

Can you find him?

diaper change

Lately Emmett loves to throw away his diapers. In fact, this morning, he had a cow because Micah helped him by taking the dirty diaper from him and throwing it away. Micah fished it out of the trash and gave it back to Emmett, not realizing how much he likes this chore.

Now if only I could teach him to change it, too....

Peach Fuzz

Yup, look closely! That is some peach fuzz on the top of his head! It's very blonde and very short, so it's hard to capture, but imagine that blurriness around his head and bumpiness on his scalp is hair that you can see. In person, it's there; trust me. My sister noticed it last Tuesday when we were in clinic. Just the day before, I had noticed eyelashes coming back, so he's going to be one hairy monster at this rate! I'm guessing it won't stay long, because hopefully he'll be starting some kind of treatment again soon, but he's had about a 6 week break, which is just long enough for hair to come back, apparently. 

I had to put this up because I didn't know Emmett could take a bad picture ;)

(I know, I'm such a conceited mom), but this one made me smile.