Terrible Two's

Emily turned 2 years old on Sunday, October 18. I can't believe we have a 2 year old. We celebrated with a Belle party (Beauty & the Beast for those of you without a 2 year old girl). We played pin the princess on the castle and decorated crowns. Even great-grandpa wore a crown. It was great!

Emily is so much fun and we love her to death. Everyone does. She is such a character and has so much personality. She keeps me laughing all day long! She talks pretty much non-stop all day. Another thing she does all day long, moves. She never stops moving. She loves to run, jump, and dance. Lately she'll put a dress on and hold the skirt out to the side and dance like Belle. Not sure if that makes sense but it's hilarious. She's so smart. She is such a good helper and a great big sister. She gives Chase kisses all the time and gets very worried whenever he cries. She currently weighs 27 pounds and is 35 inches tall. Tall and skinny according to the doctor. She knows all her colors, shapes, animals, letters, and most numbers. I swear she learns something new everyday. We love her so much and are so grateful to have her in our home.

We have entered the 21st century...

The Cottrell's have the internet. Since Robert is going back to school and taking strictly online classes we figured it was time. And once I figure out how to use our new laptop, I'll get some pictures updated on here. Get excited people!

Go Grandpa!

On Monday, October 5 my stepdad Dale left for a 12 month deployment to Iraq. He is a Blackhawk pilot and we're so proud of him! It was really sad to say goodbye and we're going to miss him a lot. Emily is going to miss him too. We went to the deployment ceremony and were able to watch them fly away. As they were flying away Emily would put her fist in the air and say "Go Grandpa!" It was so cute.

Emily in grandpa's seat.



Here's a link to the story on ksl. There's actually a photo of my mom and Dale in the photo gallery and they are quoted in the story about their grandkids and stuff.
http://www.ksl.com/public/index.php?nid=148&sid=8182970

Introducing.....

CHASE ROBERT
Born September 17, 2009 6:58 am
7 lbs 13 oz, 19.5 inches



He was born via repeat c-section and was immediately wisked away to the NICU where he unfortunately spent the next five days due to respitory distress, fluid in his lungs, a heart murmur, etc. This was very difficult for me because I was unable to even see him for several hours because of the anesthesia from the c-section. Thankfully he recovered fully and is absolutely perfect in every way! I think he just knew he had an older sister to compete with so he wanted to make sure his presence was known.



He is such a laid back and mellow baby. I'm so blessed. He sleeps and eats great which makes things a lot easier. Being a mother of two has been not as stressful as I thought it would be. (knock on wood) Emily has adjusted amazingly well and is a good helper. Sometimes too good but she's learning.

Photo of our family of three the night before Chase was born.

Big news!

I bet you thought this was about something exciting and oh, it is! We just discovered the other day that an In-N-Out Burger is coming to us!



It is going to be around the corner from our house! We're pretty excited except its going to be insanely busy. Isn't it sad the things that excite us?

What?!

Does that ticker say 45 Days left?!!!!!

HOLY $#!@.....I mean holy cow.

Word of the Week

Emily's word of the past two weeks is every parents favorite word.

WHY.

She's spent about a week saying it after everything you say. So much fun! But I did get to use every mom's favorite saying....."because I said so!"

She has also started to shrug her shoulders when you ask her a question. Where do they learn these things?!