New Favorite Thing

That mean ol Easter Bunny brought Sidney Kate a paint set, how dare he?! Turns out it's her new favorite thing to do! She did a great job keeping the mess to a minimum and making the most of her artist skills. :)
Check out the black eye at its ripe state...another Easter mishap.

Cheese!

Just a Swingin'

It is official! Embree Claire is enjoying her swing more and more!!

No updates?

What do you mean Mommy hasn't updated the blog like she should be?! Well, take it from me-she will get on that. Her hands are a little full-but don't look at me! :)

Mommy and ECV

Uncle Tony snapped this of us at SKVs party. You can tell where we are headed by her little bird mouth. Actually-she always has that bird mouth. :)

Too cool

I sent Sidney Kate to her closet to grab her crocs and she came out with boots. Way better choice!!

The movie was fun and she lasted the whole time!! Even better was Embree Claire slept the whole time!! Score 2 for Mommy and Daddy!!

Tomorrow is up early for pictures then get home and party!!

Birthday Girl!

Heading to watch a movie outside with all her friends!!

Perfect shirt for such an occasion!!

Wolfpack Comparison

You want to avoid comparing children as much as possible, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to compare Sidney Kate's coming home Wolfpack picture and Embree Claire's. Uh-dora-bull!

Sidney Kate-taken April 30, 2008

Embree Claire-taken April 18, 2011

Embree Claire's First Shots

The outfit that Sidney Kate and Embree Claire wore home from the hospital is the same outfit I wore home from the hospital...30 years ago. :)
Here are some shots we took before checking out Monday.

The New Lil Venable Fam!

As with Sidney Kate, I made a puzzle for those in the waiting room to figure out the baby's name. We also put one in our neighbor's mailbox for them to figure out...Jackson was in 2nd grade when I was pregnant with Sidney Kate and I figured he, and his family, wouldn't mind another puzzle to figure out this little one's name. Pretty sure all the "E"s were making it tough for folks-but I think it was fun anyway. :)

Ta da!! Although Sidney Kate still calls her "Jetta" when people ask what her baby sister's name is. :)

Daddy's new little girl!

Daddy's girls. Since this picture Sidney Kate has determined that we are "Daddy's girls" and I'm the Queen, of course, she's the princess and Embree Claire is his angel.

The new Lil Venable Fam!

Last Days Before ECV

Here are some pictures of our events the Friday and Saturday before Embree Claire's big debut! We hit up some Mexican food Friday night...surely Mexican food and a trip to Wal-Mart induces labor...right?! Well, it's didn't that day but it might have helped. :) Here are Daddy and Sidney Kate in the beautiful tree outside the restaurant.

We're all pretty sure this induced labor for Miss Embree Claire! Uncle Josh is getting his MBA and part of his project this semester involved none other than KRISPY KREME! We spent Saturday evening with friends at Uncle Josh and Aunt Jill's. We ate super yummy food and taste tested doughnuts for dessert! Sidney Kate, Brett and Lindsay went first for the taste testing. Giving numbers 1-5. Very intense!

Anytime we talk about going to Aunt Jill's, SKV whispers to me that she wants to "feed her rat." Haha! I think he's technically a Brazilian rat...it worked out for everyone. Jill fed our kids a lot of doughnuts and our kids fed hers a lot of raisins.

Easter Fun with SKV and ECV

As you saw in my previous post, this Easter was a little scary for one Venable girl.  Sidney Kate was left traumatized by her breakfast with the Easter Bunny and ended up not wanting anything to do with him.  By morning, however, she was wondering where her treats were and didn't seem to care how they got in the house.  We did explain that the EB gave Daddy a call on the phone and Kevin met him outside to retrieve the treats.  This seemed to be fine with her-she got treats so she was happy!

Easter Morning Boo Boo

Getting out of the bathtub accident. OUCH!