The Gamo's

We wanted Owen to be the first one to see him, well besides my Mom, who was there for the birth. I know that’s really not the norm anymore, but I could not imagine not having my Mama there.

So about an hour after I had Emery, my Mom went to get Owen.

He was pretty freaked out to see me, I was clearly in pain and he first asked “Mommy wants wrong, you ok? . Then he started crying and I had to quickly assure him that I was ok, poor guy, but it was the sweetest thing to see him so concerned for me. 

And then he saw Emery, he came up to him and the first thing he said was “Ohhh tiny tooooes. Which then, somewhere along the line changed into “Toey toes” and that is now Owen’s nick name for him. Well really, it’s just what he calls him most of the time. It’s also what we find our selves calling him to, “be nice to toey toes”, “can you get toey toes a toy”. It’s a little awkward when we forget and call him that in public. We’ve gotten a few looks, “wait, what’s his name”, Oh that’s just his nick name, his name is Emery. 

Emery just started saying Dada, so what he said your name first Ryan, so what! 

So now Owen has been trying to get him to say his name, I can’t wait to see if Emery will have a nick name for him. 

This kid, he kills me.

I didn’t get a good picture of the pizza, so I’ll give you a cute picture of Emery instead.

Tonight I made pizza, it was fast, I needed something fast and it was good!

Potato and Leek Pizza

Basic pizza dough recipe 

3 Russet potatoes, thinly sliced ( i would usually use Yukon gold, but this is what I had on hand)

4 leeks

1 TB of butter

5 ounces mozzarella cheese 

2 TS of tyme

olive oil

salt and pepper

What to do..

Follow dough directions

Cut dark green parts of leeks. Rinse well, they get pretty dirty.

Cut length wise, trim bottom little beards off and cut leeks into small rounds

Melt butter in a saute pan, cook leeks until the white parts are translucent

Roll out your dough and place on pizza pan

Spread about a tablespoon of olive oil all over dough

Arrange potatoes in a single layer, only slightly over lapping

Sprinkle salt over potatoes

place leeks on pizza

Sprinkle on cheese, don’t put to much. You may not need all of it

Finish with thyme and fresh cracked pepper

Bake according to dough directions or until crust and cheese is browned 

I also made a quick salad with my lemon vinaigrette I always have on hand, and 4 different types of lettuce from our CSA box

See, so easy, but sooo good.

“Mommy, cuddle me, I need it! I NEEEEED IT!!”

“Hey Mommy, wanna check out my dance moves?

“I love my Emery, thank you give me my Emery”

“Good morning Emery, did you have a good sleep, ya, well ok, lets gooooo! ( he says this to him every morning, in this very high pitched voice)

“Gota watch out for crabs, they gonna bite!”

“Mommy, I love Constellations!”

“Hello Mommy, what’s the problem!?
Says Owen in his superhero voice.
I make up a problem, he saves the day and we start all over again.

Though he wasn’t saying it here, he was just eating yogurt, but this is usually the face he makes when he says that.

Ryan was at work last night till 10, he went in this morning at 6, and he’s still there now!
This stinks! But we made the best of our Saturday with an ikea trip, playing in the sprinkler and cleaning out the car. A yogurt run and pizza for dinner.

Emery went to sleep at 6:30, I guess he knew about daylight savings. I kinda want to let Owen stay up late to cuddle with me and watch Disney movies. But I should probably put him to bed or he’ll be a grump in the morning and won’t wake up for church.

Goodnight, this has been a post.
Two days in a row!

- This boy! He can be incredibly sweet and ridiculously hilarious, but he can also be difficult and frustrating. Three year old tantrums are no joke!

Were working on that, I ask the Lord daily to give me patience with him. Also if were home, O rarely wears clothes. He tried to leave the house like this the other day

- Emery’s been waking up with some awesome nap hair these days.

It happened again, it was bound to at some point. E is now one month older, 7 months on the 7th. I told Ryan I think God made a mistake, the first year of the  baby stage should actually take 2 full years, it’s just to fast!. Obviously He did’nt make a mistake but for reals, give me back my little baby!!

- We went to the school open house night at our Church. They’eve had K-12 forever now, but they just started a preschool this year. The playground was sooo adorable, even I wanted to play in it. It’s set up very Montessori like. 

Lord willing Owen will be going this fall, were still praying about it and we still have one other option.

- I signed us up for a CSA box, yep were those people now. We took the short drive to our local farm to pick it up today. We already eat allot of veggies but we tend to always buy the same things. This way we get more variety, were forced to try different things and I want to be better at meal planning. So after I pick up our box for the week,  I can plan the weeks meals from what we get. 

- Again, with the growing up. Emery is officially on the move, he’s been rolling and pulling himself in circles for awhile now. Within the last few days though, he’s figured out how to army crawl forwards. 

The weekend is not starting off to great. Ryan is still stuck at work, not sure when he’ll be home and he just called to say they want him back at 6 am.

They are switching over to a new system, that will help them save lives better. So I guess that’s pretty important, but it messes up our weekend! Oh well.

So…. I still need to be better about taking pictures with me and the kiddos. 

But this one, with Ryan and the boys, I kinda really love. So I thought i’d share.

This is maybe 2 mile’s from our house. It was just a simple moment, him and the boys, counting how many crabs they found peeking out from the rocks. Saying hi to the birds and waving to the paddle boarders going by.

Simple, but good.  

This was life in the last few weeks.

Somewhere in there Emery turned 6 months

One of my favorite things ever, a sleeping baby in my arms.

I could stay like this forever, it’s just so perfect.

These guys are kinda amazing. 

Owen’s been throwing lots of tantrums this week, i think it’s more like terrible three’s instead of terrible two’s. It’s a little frustrating, but then he also ran up to me yesterday and said, ” Mommy I love my Emery, thank you again my Emery.

Ok kid, you’re sweet, I think i’ll keep you.

Click the link below, pretty please. 

I’ve written dozens of blog post, in my head, but they never seem to make it on here.
Oh well!

The last couple weeks I’ve been trying to figure out preschool for Owen, it’s kinda surreal and it kinda breaks my heart. Next year I’ll have a preschooler and before I know it he’ll be off to college!
That is if I can figure out this confusing mess that it getting him into a preschool and this is just preschool!

Also, Emery will be 6 months on the 7th. That means he’s been alive for half a year. This is just crazy and I don’t want to believe it!!