May Recap

Quad ride with Cousin Kevin at Uncle Pete and Auntie Ang's.

Isaac's new favorite thing to do at Aunty Ang's is sneak into her craft room and dump out her bead jar.

close up his killer eyelashes.

Marshmellow roast

Andrew soccer.

Luke in the middle with purple on.

Sam is #2 in black.

Emma was sick a few times in May. Had a bath in the kitchen sink one day.

Cheering for her brothers at soccer.

These three are learning to play so well together. I love it!

Typical Luke.

Happy Isaac.

Long weekend at the cabin.

 Luke and Isaac off to catch bugs.

 Here comes Mr. Leffers and his class.

May highlights:

• Had Andi and Tara Lee for a thank you dinner. Spaghetti and meatballs.
• Annual school Bazaar
• Emma had an appointment with a specialist regarding her hips. (Thankfully results were great, no worries with her hips.)
• practice in the coulee's for an upcoming run.
• Emma's tongue tie snip was postponed again due to a cold.
• cabin for two nights
• Had an IPP meeting for Luke at his preschool and he assessed so well that he didn't qualify for funding for speech next year. This is great! He will still have pull out speech therapy but he is improving lots.
• cut out Isaac's naps which he is adjusting well to. Lots more time to learn and play now.
• started potty training Isaac and it's going better than expected. 
• Isaac had a occupational therapy assessment. Result was a moderate delay in his fine motor skills.
• We went with Ken's class on his wetland field trip.
• I enjoyed a day off to attend a women's league day at our church all about finding a balance in life.
• Isaac had a orientation at his preschool that he will attend next year.

April in a nutshell

 Emma in her new Hawaii dress.

 Luke our little shark.

 Why is it that pudgy babies look so adorable in swimsuits?

 Grandma and Grandpa drove Isaac and Mommy to Calgary Hospital for Isaac to have an MRI on his brain.

 Coming around afterwards and stuffing his face.

 Luke fell asleep like this one day. Gloves on and all.

 Coaldale Annual Family 5km Fun run.Ken and Andrew and Sam went in it.

 Ken and Sam

 Andrew decided to stop "saving his energy" and give er at the finish line.

 Even Grandpa and Grandma competed.

Uncle Pete, Simone, Shawna and Bradley. 

 Sister in law Mel is one out of two organizer's that plan this event each year.

Miss Emma turned one.

Highlights of April:

• 1-8 - Hawaii trip
• Dine and Dash in our church community
• swimming at Taber pool
• lots of soccer for Andrew, Sam and Luke
• Isaac went to Calgary for an MRI (Thankfully results were great)
• Coaldale Fun Run
• celebrated Emma's b'day

Emma turns One!

 Opening presents.

 Emma got a dolly and stroller from us. I have to admit it was pretty fun shopping for her birthday.

 Sunshine Cake for our sunshine girl.

 yummy!

All decked out in her blingy stuff!

Height: 28.5inches
Weight:23lb 7oz
Who: Grandma and Grandpa, Aunty Ang, Tara Lee, Andi, Aunty Den, Curtis, Kelsey, Aunty Tracy, Seth, Isaiah, Jesse, Aunty Mel, Simone, Shawna, Bradley  and Jason
What: Emma got a stroller and doll, dress, Minnie Mouse, money, pink bunny, piggy bank, clothes, play necklaces.
Goody bags were a box of smarties and sticker books

Emma @ 1:

• is quite active, she is a real go-getter and only has 1 nap a day for an hour to an hour and a half
• she sleeps thru the night 7:30pm-7am
• loves her brothers and loves playing with them
• she naturally plays with her dolly patting her hair and pushing her in the stroller, she also combs her hair with a play hairbrush. Just like that she does girl things without being taught by her brothers. 
• she also loves boy things and makes car noises and plays train with Isaac (when he is willing to give 1 of his trains up)
• she is a mama's girl and likes to be held a lot which is a hard thing to do in this busy house especially with her weighing 24 pounds.
• she has had 3 hair cuts by Aunty Ang and a bang trim by me
• she has the cutest hair. It has lightened up a lot since she was born, she has bangs and it grows naturally into a bob. 
• I have been very blessed with lots of hand-me downs from Aunty Trixie and others but I still manage to pick up some cute things for her at the thrift store which is so much fun. Aunty Tracy seems to have fun finding things for her too.
• she gets attention wherever we go and she loves it. She nuzzles her head into me when people talk to her and acts all shy.
• I'm sure she thinks her name is "cute" and not Emma.
• doesn't eat super great. I try to feed her supper and she shakes her head no and often grabs the fork/spoon from me and spills food everywhere. This doesn't make mommy very happy. If she doesn't like the texture of it she will spit it out. We had a battle not long ago with pineapple...she won. The same piece went in and out of her mouth at least 10 times before I gave up.
• she already puts her play phone to her ear and babbles.
• We also caught her "reading" her books in her crib the other day. She turns the pages, points and babbles away. It is so cute!
• she has been nicknamed "lobster" by me because she pinches so hard when I go to put her down when she doesn't want to be put down. She also pulls hair. Feisty girl.
• she is also a real Daddy's girl who lays in bed with him every morning and drinks her bottle.
• she loves the swings especially Auntie Mel's
• is very girly and squeals with delight a lot
• is getting closer to walking, she will stand on her own for a few seconds but then gets so excited that she flaps her arms and falls over.
• is super flexible which has caused some alarm, but now she has seen a specialist and we've been told that everything is fine, she is just more flexible then some kids.
• she fits right into our family but I have to admit some days I'm still in shock that we have a girl. I still sometimes check on her before bed and think "wow, a girl!"

Family

 Ang & Pete

 Den & Bryan

 Dad & Mom Leffers

 Dwayne and Trixie

 Us!

 Mel & Pete

 The whole family including Baby Jason from Mel and Pete.

The Leffers Beautiful Family.

Wow, this sums up the trip of a  lifetime. Ken's parents took all of us to Hawaii for their 45th anniversary. I am so incredibly blessed to be a part of this family.