Leading up to the New Year

After the Monday after Christmas Brandon had to go back to work. So the boys and I hung out at home each day and just enjoyed not having to go to school. 

Emmett has gotten so good at sitting up by himself. He started being able to sit up for about 5 minutes after Christmas and now he can sit up for even longer. He is almost a pro. 

 So Ashely gave us marshmallow shooters for Christmas. So after Christmas we decided to go in the basement and try them out. The boy had a blast and Ethan lasted longer than Wyatt did. Wyatt ended up just eating everything that he shot. After a while he had a complete mouth full! haha

He is just such a cutie pie. Oh I also forgot to mention that the week of Christmas Emmett started to become a lot fussier. He would just start whining while he was on the ground and whine when we picked him up. He had a rough time at night and I noticed a couple of times that he would pick at his ear a little bit while he was going to sleep and he would cry. We thought he was just teething and then on Sunday he ended up getting a low fever. So I thought maybe he had an ear infection. We have never had one in our house yet so it was hard to tell. However, I kept thinking maybe he did have one because of how whiny he was being and pulling at his ear. Luckily, Emmett's well check was that Monday morning and when we went in for his 6 month check up he weighed in at 15 pounds which meant he had not gained as much as he normally does and the doctor had to clean our his ear wax in his ear because she couldn't even see into it. Once she cleaned his ear out she could see that he definitely had an ear infection. So we left and got some antibiotics for him and he was feeling better by New Years Eve. 

The boys got to help me make some strawberry jam. They were pretty excited about it. haha 

Then on New Years Eve we also went in to Daddy's office and all got our teeth cleaned. We ended up finding out that Ethan had a chipped molar. Not sure how or when it happened but he had a good chip off of it. 

That evening we had our annual banging of pots and pans and running around the house saying HAPPY NEW YEAR!! The boys always love to do it and it was Emmett's first time and I think he was a little confused! haha After sending the boys to bed Brandon and I watched some New Years Eve celebrations on T.V and then finished off the night with the newest Indiana Jones movie. It was a great end to the year. 

Bring on 2016!!