Cinq de Mai

"In English, Baxter. You know I don't speak Spanish."
I took French in high school (what was I thinking) so I don't know how to spell sinko-de-miiio. Anywho, happy 5th of May. For Bunco tonight (at which we get together but don't play Bunco, but that's a different story) we're going to On the Border so I'm looking forward to a few margaritas. I can't remember the last time I left the house without Miss Emerson. Good luck to Ryan for putting her to bed this evening. She still won't take a bottle so Ryan will have to "force feed" her some milk until she screams so much she just gives up and goes to sleep. The whole bottle issue is a whole other post entirely...

I just wanted to give a quick update for those who don't know what's been new in the Wood family life- here's a quick rundown.
We live in Blue Springs and have for 4 years, Ryan works at Cerner as a buyer, I was a police officer in Blue Springs for 5 years but quit after I had Emerson. My last day of work was the day I went into labor at Valley View High School. (Long story.)My neighbor asked me the other day if I was sad or ever missed not being a police officer anymore. Not one millisecond. I thought long and hard about staying home and whether or not it would be a good idea. I don't regret it one bit and I haven't missed working, although I do miss the paychecks!

Emerson was born on November 20th and was 2 weeks early much to our surprise. She's doing great and we're getting the sleeping and napping thing down. Now if she would only take a bottle...

So there you go, you're all caught up.
Here are some more of my favorite pics.

Emerson and Cousin Will hanging out.


Katy Zimmerman made her this hat- love it.


Gotta love the activity mat.


Some bumbo time out on the deck.


Have a good one!

Finally...

Well- I did it. Thanks to Emerson's long Saturday nap, I've dabbled around and started a blog. I said forever that I wouldn't do it but babies change so quickly and with all of Ryan's family out of town (and with Katie Mac out of town!), I thought this would be a good idea. Finally, right???

I'm really going to try and be good about updating posts because I know how annoying it is to do my "check of the blogs" and see no updates. My blogger stalker and I (you know who you are) like to see updates so I'll try really hard. My goal is to add about a post once a week - I think that's reasonable, right???

Two weekends ago we had Emerson blessed at Walnut Gardens and then last weekend we went to Red Oak, Iowa to have her baptized in the Catholic church. I'll post pictures of that for my next update. That ought to keep you on the edge of your seat!!!

I'll start out with some of my favorite pictures of Emerson as my first posting of pics. She's 5 months old by the way and doing great.