The Higgins Family: Everything Embry: January 5

Happy New Years

Happy New Years to all! To say we celebrated would be stretching...Jacob had to work NYE and I kept our neighbor, Eliot, for a few hours. We had a normal evening and neither of us made it up until midnight. Oh the joys of having a (early rising) toddler.

Jacob had the morning off of work, but actually had to work a few hours in the afternoon on a few big hearings for later in the week. We went to lunch as a family before Jacob headed into the office, then, Embry and I spent some of the afternoon at the neighborhood park and counted down until Daddy came home from work.

e&e

Watching the forklift at Costco, oh so fun.

Pizza for lunch!

Reading while.....stepping on Athena....

Enough toys in the tub?

Ready to party on NYE!!!

New Years Day breakfast- using our new waffle maker from Grandma Gordon

E's eczema seems to be flaring these days.

Egg roll, yum.

Her new favorite spot in the house, her chair from Mimi and Papa

Already breaking the rules, climbed up the slide on her own...

Champagne toasts on New Years!

January 1 was E's 15 month "birthday"

What a difference a year makes! (Three months was one of my favorite of her monthly pics)

Fire

Monday afternoon I got some scary news while I was at the grocery store. Three neighbors called me within 2 minutes and my knees went weak. A house on our street was up in flames. The family, a mom and four daughters, all got out okay (three of the four girls were home) but they lost everything, literally everything.

I spent part of the week utilizing local moms groups, MOPS, neighborhood groups, etc. to help raise money and donations for the family. I have received a crazy amount of donations, it's been wonderful. The family has been by each day to pick stuff up, and each day we've filled their van.

Click here to see the local ABC News story on the family.

New Toys

We spent a lot of time at home this week playing with new Christmas toys! A new game is hiding things such as loveys, cups, etc.... in her new kitchen. Funny videos below....

Playing in Mommy's new basket from Kiki and E-Pa!

Her new kitchen from Mommy and Daddy has been a big hit!

Her music box from Great Gram and Papa Fanning from last year.

Loving her dolly from Santa

Play food galore!

Make up vanity

Magnadoodle concentration

We exchanged a few multiple toys she received for this cleaning set!

So proud!

One of Mommy and Daddy's new toys! Jacob made waffles Sunday morning on our new waffle iron.

Cuddling with her lovey in the "oven"

Playing with her magnetic "paper" dolls from the Harts

Sick

Embry's never ending cold, is flaring yet again! New Years Day her cough started back up yet again. Wednesday night she had a bad nights sleep, up crying because of the coughing we think. Also, she started to actually cut one of her many teeth that are coming in that day.

Thursday she didn't nap great during the day and was just so clingy. By the evening I was spent and Jacob was working late. Embry ended up pooping in the tub and I just grabbed her and took her to the kitchen to bathe her. After I got her into pajamas she was crying so hard she ended up throwing up all over herself, me and the hallway. =( Of course, the tub was still full of dirty water....I just stripped us both down and called Jacob home crying. Man, it was a rough hour or so. Luckily, she never threw up again and got a good nights sleep that night.

Friday night she had another restless night. Ugh. Hoping she shakes this cold once and for all! She finally got a 12+ hour night sleep last night (of course I'm jinxing it now I'm sure....) but she seems is such good spirits today!