standing

just in the last week emma taylor has really started putting weight on her legs. before we would try to get her to stand up, and she would just collaspe. she had no desire. then one day she did it. she stood up...with our help of course.

on cloth diapering

we have been cloth diapering emma taylor full time now for about a month- except for the short spurt of a couple days after i realized that my backup disposables were too small for her. she was a good 2 pounds over the maximum weight so what do i do? not waste them of course. i used them up in about 2 1/2 days where we had 3 blowouts. probably not the best idea but i did not want them to go to waste. now i have the correct size backup diapers. anyways...

cloth diapering is definitely a lot harder than using disposables, but i am not buying tons of diapers which is the whole reason. washing them every other day is not bad. i do enough laundry as it is that adding the extra loads does not feel like a burden. my true complaint is taking  her in cloth to church. i feel like i have to take her in disposables on Sunday because she is there for several hours, but on Wednesdays i can change her right before she goes into nursery while we head to youth group. she is also tall and big for her age. she is wearing 6 and 9 month clothes depending on the brand and add the bulk of a cloth diaper makes it a bit more challenging to find clothes that are long enough. i am sure by the time she is 1 cloth diapering will be so second nature i won't even wonder why i did it, and i am glad we are saving the money.

{luckily my front porch is full sun in the morning to help dry the diapers. hopefully my neighbors don't mind}

a little dramatic

today, emma taylor was playing on her playmat. she started fussing and sucking her thumb at the same time. i let it go on for a minute and she kept fussing. i decided to get the camera because she is still cute when she is fussing and the moment i got down on her level and started taking pictures she stopped. apparently she just wanted her picture taken.

outside

sometimes i feel a bit couped up being a stay at home mom especially when you miss going out because your baby is getting over a cold and you don't want to expose her to germs again too quickly. it might not seem like a big deal but just getting outside (even in the back yard) can be a breath of fresh air (no pun intended). here are some of our hanging outside photos...

{a not so great picture of us}

{notice how e.t is holding on with both hands. she will hold on to anything and everything especially the rails on her changing table. apparently she thinks she can fall off at any minute.}

{love this face and her chubby cheeks}

{this is what happens when you try to hold up a 3 month old in sitting position and try to take a picture and only have 2 hands}

{and again}

{a little better}

we didn't forget about you

we still have our "babies" abby and cosmo, but you wouldn't know that seeing that they have been pretty absent on the blog. needless to say, they are no longer getting much camera time. face it- emma taylor is much cuter. however i did snap these pictures of cosmo this morning. now that it is getting colder cosmo is sleeping in our bed every night, taking over our pillows. i would prefer that he not, but cats don't play by the rules. they certainly do not no the meaning of no. so we tolerate it. today he napped well past when everyone else got up. he got the whole bed to himself and enjoyed it.

happy halloween

we had planned to be part of our church's trunk or treat celebration, but poor little emma taylor came down with a little cough/cold this weekend. with the high being 60 degrees there is no way we would take her out in the cold. so instead we handed out candy at our house. like last year the trick-or-treaters were few and far between and many of them were teenagers who were barely dressed up. oh well, hopefully emma taylor will be well enough next year to go out and have some fun!

{baby jack-o-lantern}

{showin' off her pumpkin's face}

{monster feet}

{pumpkin garland}

{abby waiting in anticipation}

pumpkin carving

this past weekend we carved pumpkins with some friends from church. we love carving pumpkins each year, and i can't wait till emma taylor is really old enough to carve her own pumpkin or at least be part of the action.

{our cosmo inspired jack-o-lantern}