The life & times of Emery Dean Toothaker: March 2006

Settled into the new house-yippee!!

Yes, we're finally getting settled into the new place, just in time for Spring! I am very excited for the warm weather to get here, and Emery is loving getting to spend more time outside. I'm so glad we live close to some great parks, and we'll be able to utilize our new backyard as well. Emery is DEFINATLY an outdoor kid, I hate to think about next winter once he's had a taste of what the summers here hold for him. For now though we are enjoying our new spaces very much.

Hmmm, let's see, what's new with Emery these days? Well, he is into balls at the moment. Any kind of ball really, but at the moment a volleyball is his favorite. He wants me to bounce it all the time, and he gets so excited by it that he giggles and snorts and jumps up and down like a crazy man. I'm happy he's moved onto the ball thing, because before that it was the popcorn popper push toy that he had to have me chase him with incessently. I can only chase the kid so many times around the table, ya know? The ball bouncing is a welcome change.

In other news I finally got him into a real pair of shoes! He's been donning the Robez with the leather soles because they are the only shoes I could get over his fat feet. But finally I found some velcro shoes that I had to buy about 2 sizes too large so that I could get his feet inside. He's got about an inch of room in the toe, but they stay on his feet- hurray! At first he hated them and cried when he tried to walk. But I got ones that lit up when he walked so that was enough distraction to get him to give the hard soles a little time. Now he loves them and is constantly trying to put them on. We're both pretty happy about the new shoes now. Well, that's all for now, enjoy the few pics I managed to get of him in the last couple of months!