On a happier note...

sorry to my faithful readers for the bitterness of my last post. sometimes i do need to vent. i have been warned, "what if she reads this somehow?" to that i say, i do not care. we did tell her that we didn't like it and we didn't want it to happen again, that is was awkward, and she needed to sit somewhere else next time. do you think she really cared? nope. our counselor has told us to NEVER sit with her, NEVER have a conversation with her, communicate through a mediator and voicemail, maybe an email or two - i really believe we are going to have to follow his advice to a "t" to deal with a pill like her. so, here are a couple of cute pics - Em on the 4th of July and at the park today with the two men in her life, eating her favorite - a banana!

The psychostalker strikes again...

This is what I should have been doing - enjoying the fireworks in my town, in my subdivision, with my husband and my baby and my friend and her child. unfortunately as you all may have guessed by the title, this is not what took place. Gary had to work the festival because he was on shift with the fire station. So, I had planned to celebrate our first fourth of july with a picnic and a cute little blanket, etc. you get the idea. katie and noah were supposed to be with their mom. who doesn't live in bartlett. and has never come to the festival in the past three years that i've been with gary. my friend and her son were meeting us there, too. she is a former friend of the ex-wife aka psychostalker. so, imagine my surprise when christy walks up with the kids and throws her blanket down and puts her chairs up. i really was in denial at this point. i thought maybe i was having a nightmare. but i couldn't wake up. but she didn't stop there. she moved her chair between my friend and i won't bore you with the details of the conversation but i did overhear her discussing her STD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was mortified!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hopefully your kids are not reading this right now.... gary of course stayed away and it just ruined the whole night. i really don't know how much longer i can do this. everywhere i go there she is. and she doesn't just walk by or say hello. she follows me and she sits with me and she bothers me. i do not want my daughter around her! it is just nuts. that is the only way i know how to say it. she has followed me to restaurants with friends and tried to sit with us. she has called my parents (got the number out of katie's cell phone), and i won't even go into what she tries to act like with the baby. does "aunt christy" make anybody's skin crawl? i mean, seriously. what ex-wife would want to hang around their husband's new wife all the time? i seriously am thinking about inquiring about stalking, all joking aside. we already have a criminal trespassing injunction against her for our home. maybe i need to extend that to the city of bartlett. i just think as long she's not threatening me, i don't know that i can do anything about it. but i really am tired of this.
and oh, by the way, emily has strep. karie, aren't you glad we didn't do a play date with hudson this week???

Trip to the Sprinkler Park

Katie is at Cheer Camp this week, so Em, Noah and I headed to Collierville to the sprinkler park there. Em wasn't quite sure about water spraying up in her face, but Noah loved it!

Guess what I got for my birthday???

I am still in total shock that Gary bought this for me. It is totally nuts! I love to scrapbook and take pics all the time, but i am totally an amateur. When I downloaded this pic, I was embarrassed to see what this costs our fam. I thought it was very thoughtful of him and I was completely surprised. I have been blessed with a very sweet thoughtful husband. He even decorated the dining room (like I do for all the kids) and bought me a cookie cake!

Lookee what I made!!!

I stitched every single stitch of this myself with the help of my great friend Karie! I'm so proud of my first project!!!

9 months old!

This post is pretty late, but I wanted to post the stats. Em is now cruising around, pulling up and wandering around anything that is the right height for her to reach. She is a major mommy's girl, and cries cries cries when strangers attempt to take her from me or when I leave the room or when I am even thinking about leaving the room. She loves to clap and "dance" to music. I am having to try to wean her from her bottle a little earlier than I would have liked because she can't have it at daycare this fall when she returns. I'm giving her one in the morning and at night, but offering it to her in a sippy cup during the day. She does not enjoy this at all, but is has helped with the pickiness of the solid foods. I also attempted (and yes I know I am psycho) to wean from the pas. I called my friend Karie who also confirmed that I was being a psycho and quickly returned it to avoid further disaster. I will not be trying that trick again for quite some time! Enjoy Em's 9 month pics!

Weight: 17.0 lbs <25th>
Height: 22" <25th>

Splashin' in the Pool & My 2nd Anniversary

We went swimming at our friend Laura's house a week or so ago. em wore her itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny red polka dot bikini. i, on the other hand, did not want to do permanent damage to my children's psychoschematic development. I wore my whale suit. Em was not phased by this. However, she did not enjoy this duck. And I did not either. I am actually pretty bitter about this purchase. The stupid 40+ UV blue sun shade would not even stay up!!! We have now purchased a spring float to try on our trip to Florida.

Gary and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary on Wednesday. Honestly, it feels like it has been much longer. He gave me a beautiful card and a sewing machine! I was really surprised. I have been wanting to learn to sew for awhile. We went and ate dinner at Jim's Place in Memphis. We will be taking a 3-day vacation by ourselves to Pigeon Forge in a couple of weeks! Yea! Here's a pic of the flowers I got on Monday. I had had a really stressful couple of days with Em and my sweet husband just wanted to cheer me up...