What an amazing few weeks!  Emily is walking like crazy.  She can't pull herself up yet without help but she's getting the hang of it so it won't be long now.  She has learned the art of trying to keep daddy from going to work.  She actually walks to the door and stands in front of it with her arms blocking it.

Baby boy still doesn't have a name but is kicking like crazy.  I have yet to feel a kick but Jennifer says they're hard enough that you can feel them if you touch her belly long enough.  We've started plans to do a little redesign of the nursery.  Since they're sharing a room, we'll need to change the color.  We're also adding some "monkey attire" to spice it up.

June was a crazy month for picture taking... I got a new Canon 40D and I've shot almost 2000 photos in 2 weeks.  At this rate, I'm gonna need a new hard drive to store all of these.  I've uploaded a whole bunch of them so take a look at the photos page for more.

That's all for now.

And so ends a fun week with Grandma and Grandpa.  Emily had a WONDERFUL time!  All in all it was a pretty crazy week.  We had our formal ultrasound for Baby #2 and confirmed he's a boy, Jo and Pedro had Baby Mo (aka. Matthew) and Emily has been walking like crazy.  I took a boat load of pictures so you can check them out on our photo page.

Among the excitement, Grandpa and I replaced the kitchen faucet and he took me to the driving range to teach me how to tee off.  To sum it up in a few words, I need some help and maybe even a prayer.  I had a really good time though.  I plan to practice a lot more and hopefully someday be able to play with the big boys.

Yes, I need to turn in my "guy card", I saw Sex In The City with Jennifer tonight. Grandma gave us a date night by watching Emily so we went to see a chick flick. Yes, I enjoyed it.

Today was a very exciting day.  We had our formal ultrasound and got a great look at Baby Smith.  He was one active little boy that's for sure.  We confirmed that he's a BOY and were lucky enough to get a 4D look at him.  I upload the pictures, you can find them by clicking here.

4D ultrasounds are usually done at 26-28 weeks so the pictures weren't as revealing as they could be.  They're the last two scans on this page.  ENJOY.

Something odd has been happening in our house.  A few weeks ago one of Emily's toys started playing music on it's own. Me and Jennifer were in the same room together and witnessed the event.  We thought it was possible the toy in question had a button stuck or something like that.

A few nights ago it happened again.  This time it was both the offending toy AND another toy in the room.  We're starting to believe Emily's toys are "playing" while she's in bed.  It's pretty creepy waking up to the sound of a toy saying "come and play with us".  No joke, I woke up to a toy asking me to come and play with it.

Little Emily has started walking!!!!!  Ok, so maybe just a few steps but that's progress!  The fun began on May 7^th and every week since, she has gotten more and more courage to take a few more steps.  Last night was by far the most fun we've had. Emily walked (about 4-5 steps) between Jennifer and I.  She was so proud of herself, it was adorable!

Emily still points at everything and she tries so hard to communicate.  We read together each night.  She loves "The Bear Snores On", "The Bear Wants More" and "Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Buss".  I read those books so often I don't even look at the pages anymore.  She's amazing.

I am not sure if I've mentioned the pending arrival of baby #2 on this blog.  We're expecting baby #2 in October and we got an early look to determine whether or not Emily will have a little sister or brother.  Verdicts in… It's a Boy!  We are super excited about the thought of a little man in our house.

I know I've been promising to upload pictures. Well I finally delivered on that promise.  I uploaded almost 500 pictures today including photos from February, Emily's First Birthday, Easter Sunday and more so make sure to check out the photos page.

That's all for now.

~mike

Another blog entry made at 32,000 feet so I apologize in advance for bad spelling as I type this on my PDA.

This week little Miss Emily cut her first top tooth. We were starting to wonder if she'd ever get top teeth. Our daycare lady informed us she took 2 steps last week. We tried to get her to do it again but she's not a performing monkey and we assume she'll show us any day now. For now she prefers to crawl everywhere.

She points at things and when we ask her where her tummy is, she pats her stomach. Best of all, when we ask for a kiss she opens her mouth, leans in and gives us a wet one. She's doing wonderful.

In other news... We're expecting #2! Baby #2 is a surprise blessing, we couldn't be more thrilled. We're about 13 weeks along. Jennifer is dealing with some morning sickness but other than that, things are good. We find out the sex on June 2nd. Boy... Girl... Doesn't matter to me. If I was a beating man, I'd put money on PINK but who knows.

That's all for now.

- ms
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Cold and flu season has hit our family hard. A few weeks ago I had a touch of the flu.  Last week both Jennifer and Emily were sick and to top things off, Emily had a nasty fever yesterday.  Everyone is on the mend so things are looking up.

Emily continues to crawl like crazy.  She pulls herself up with both our ottoman and couch.  She also babbles like crazy, it looks like we have a talker.  Would you expect anything less?  Look at her daddy!

I learned a hard lesson this week.  When you have a large opening in need of a baby gate expect to pay BIG!  We're making final touches to our baby proofing but Emily still finds a way to get into things and she seems to find any crumb on the floor.  She like a mini vacuum cleaner!

She continues to be adorable.  Keep tuned here for more pictures coming soon.