Celebrating Emerson!

This weekend we had a Dinosaur themed party for Emerson's 3rd birthday. We had family and friends over to our house to help us celebrate.

Here's the invitation…


These dinosaur footprints greeted our guests as they arrived…


And you can't have a party without a food table…



I made Dinosaur Toenails (by dipping Bugles in melted chocolate almond bark)…


There were several different dinosaur cookies (I used small dinosaurs to make the footprints in my sugar cookie dough then sprinkled them with cinnamon and sugar and then glazed several too)…



There was all kinds of sugary goodness offered…




I used one of our decks to set up child size tables and chairs that I rented from Confetti's…


Each child got a dinosaur mask, and "archeological-excavation" tools for the dinosaur dig…






Each sandbox had dinosaurs, dino skeletons and "surprise rocks", I do believe the surprise rocks were quite the hit!!



Emerson loved digging for his dinosaurs. Look what he found inside his rock…



We did our first ever, piñata, I must say it was quite challenging for that sucker to break loose!


It was mass mayhem when it finally broke and set free more sugary goodness!


We sang Happy Birthday to our special little guy…



I think he really enjoyed his cupcake and jello cup!


He had fun ripping open and seeing all of his new toys.

After the party I asked him "what part of your party was your favorite?" His response was, "I loved all the dinosaurs!" So I guess it was a hit for him, and that is really all that matters!

It was fun having a bunch of our friends and family there to celebrate with us…






Happy Birthday sweet Emerson! We love you so much and were so glad to be able to celebrate the 3 years we've had with you!!

Happy Birthday Emerson!

Three years ago today, God blessed us with our third little boy, Emerson Clark Head. He arrived on a day not too much different then today, it was literally a cold, snowy January 9th. He came early in the morning. We arrived at the hospital about 1:15 am, I got to the room, changed and was at 6 cm, not too long after that my water broke and I knew I wanted an Epidural so they quickly brought the Anaesthesiologist and within 2 and a 1/2 hours from our arrival, our precious little guy arrived, weighing in at 7 lbs 12 oz and measuring 21 inches long. We loved him as soon as we met!


His brothers were thrilled to finally see him!


He was our red headed baby that turned into our most blonde headed little boy! Oh how I love those cheekers, are they not to die for?


Since then he has grown into a sweet little boy. He is the most loving these days, at bedtime, he can't just give you one kiss on one cheek, he must "do the udder one too"…and when he says it, Adam and I are quick to let him! He has always been able to self entertain pretty good, he's never left the table hungry (he regularly eats as much as I do--which I must say is quite impressive for a little person who weighs less then 35 lbs! He is our most polite child, with his "thank you Mom" and "Pleases" without prompting, he loves to sing at his maximum volume I must add. He's totally into Cars right now (and I mean like in the last 3 weeks he's become obsessed with all things Dinoco or Lightening, or Mater), he sleeps, every night for about 3 weeks now, with Lightening McQueen, and I must say I've been pretty impressed with his ability to keep up with that blessed red car in his pants or jacket pockets! He currently is pretty intense, and I mean he does EVERYTHING with gusto, at a top volume, with great force, whether its constantly "washing" his Lightening McQueen in the sink (we've gone through 2 bottles of liquid soap, can you imagine the amount of bubbles we've had floating in the air and around in the sinks here) or whether he's sitting and watching his favorite show, Super Why, when he realizes, oh, I'm thirsty, and then yells in his most demanding, whiney voice, "I need something to drrriiinnnnnkkkk!"--we're working on our tone and trying to use a whisper voice---which is pretty much futile! But this little boy is precious, he loves to sing "The Holy Song", "The Faithful Song" and to say his memory verses, he has quickly picked up on Psalm 23 because Lawson is memorizing it in his 4 year old class and regularly likes to quote it in the car…sweet Emerson can say most of it along with Lawson and I must admit it makes my eyes well up with tears to hear this little boy who has been 2 up until today, hiding God's word in his heart, it surely must make God smile. We love him dearly and can't imagine life without him, it'd much quieter, much cleaner, much more neat and things would stay in there place, but I'd miss the dirty hands; the constant, "please put my shoes on" (he has a fetish with that too); the "Momma, I wuv you's" and reading him the "Henry The Jetplane" book. Emerson is definitely intense but life would probably be real boring if he weren't in our family to keep us hopping and keep us on our toes.

We celebrated his life this morning over none other then Krispy Kreme sprinkle doughnuts…I think they were a hit!




I love these messy hands…


Happy Birthday sweet boy, we all love you to the moon and back!


For the last few months he's said he wanted a Dinosaur party anytime we asked him, so we'll be celebrating with friends and fossils on Saturday, it should be fun! Hope the weather is much, MUCH better!

Recap of 2013

Wow, I hardly believe that today is January 7, 2014. I've taken a slight blogging hiatus to take care of some very sick kids, one of which has been running a fever off and on since Dec. 27th and one who has been diagnosed with allergies, but there'll more about that in another post. So since I've had a little time to think about the past year I thought I 'd do a little remembering as we look forward into the newness and freshness of what 2014 might possibly hold for the Head family.

I started the year off by joining a Food Co-Op, that was (and still is) a HUGE blessing in my life. Though I don't enjoy the actual cooking of 16 meals per month for four families, I do enjoy a very stocked freezer where I can turn to when its been "one of those days". Thanks ladies for letting me be apart of it!


My sister got married…




There were lots of firsts:
My first time to be diagnosed with scabies, no I mean pityriasis rosea or possibly psoriasis? But, no, thankfully it wasn't the life long struggle of psoriasis…once I got on the correct meds, Pitorisa Rosea was cleared up in a few weeks, thank goodness!


My first trip to Wye Mountain with the kids. The daffodils were so much fun to see and pick.


Our first time to really be acquainted with a cause, to really feel and see what research and development of procedures along with the education and skills of Doctors can do in the life of one precious little girl, our Ava Jane. We will forever be thankful to organizations like the Heart Association that does research and finds answers to problems and cures for heart related illnesses. It was our first time to do the Heart Walk, we will surely be there again this year, go Ava Jane's Angel's!



Lawson played soccer and t-ball for the first time.



It was Peyton's first year of t-ball and piano.



Our first time to pick blueberries…they were oh so yummy!


It was the first year since college that we've all been back in the same town…thank you Lord for such good friends to do life with…I've loved our regular playdates!!


My first ever hot air balloon ride, which was so fun and totally repeatable!


Ava Jane's First Birthday and 1 year pictures…




And then we found out that the DNA test came back as "normal female chromosomal formation" so we no longer had to wonder about the possibility of Turner's Syndrome. Praise the Lord!!


Peyton got to go deer hunting and shoot the gun.


Adam and I celebrated our 10 years anniversary and truly enjoyed our trip to Cali.



I learned how to use my camera a little better.



I got to be Room Mom to Peyton's 1st grade class for the first time.


I got to experience Garvan Woodland Gardens and all its spectacular lights!


We enjoyed several trips:
To the lake…



To cheer on the Hogs, though it was a rough season, we still enjoyed being at our Alma Mater!


Out to beautiful Napa…part 1, , part 2, part 3.




There was the trip to Nashville…and seeing the "Batman building" as the boys like to call it…


And then up to the majestic Smokey Mountains in Gatlinburg…part 1, part 2, part 3



I am so blessed. As I look back over this year I realize once again how fortunate I truly am and how very much I love these little people God has blessed me with. Some days are really, REALLY, hard. But I wouldn't change it for the world. I love my life, where God's put me and who He's placed in my path. I look forward with great expectation as to what this next year may hold for our family. Hope you all have had a great start to the year, and that you're blessed in 2014!