Zoo, Zoo, Zoo

Thank you Aunt Wendy for the super cute dress!!

Newest Feats

Emma's vocabulary has expanded so much in the last couple weeks. Here new phrases include:

What are you doing?
Where are you going?
Where's Daddy?
Where's Mommy?
What's that? (usually answers this one herself with Oh, no it's Daddy or Mommy)
Cool!
No way

Her favorite game right now is hide and seek. She has alot of fun being the seeker and counting to 10, although you have to remind her not to peek.

She is also doing the typical little kid stuff at bed, saying eat, potty, couch, up etc to get out of going to bed. The not so typical of climbing on the dresser 50x at bedtime and then calling us to get her down, that one I am not so crazy about.

I also figured out how to get her to eat taco salad and another Mexican casserole I make, give her a chip to eat it with and she thinks that is very cool. Plus I think she likes saying chip.

One bad habit that is also weird she tries to drink any puddle of water she sees. When it rains and we go outside, she tries to slurp it off her toys, the chair, you get the point. So we have to go around and make sure there are no puddles that she wants to slurp up even though she is carrying a cup full of juice in her hand as she is doing it. Don't worry we keep the chemicals locked up tight!!

Rose Garden and Washington Park

This was a fun day walking thru the rose gardens and playing at Washington Park. My fearless Emma tried to reach into a rose and grab a bumble bee, fortunately she didn't get ahold of it and didn't make it mad in the process. And to all of the strangers that think it is helpful to comment "she is really a handful isn't she?" when my child is zipping up and down the aisles of roses and I am trying to catch her, it isn't helpful at all. Keep your comments to yourself cause you don't get to see the sweet kisses in the dark, the hugs so tight you can't breathe or get to hear "I lub you mommy". All that and more make up for the times I am sweating and running to try to catch up my little whirlwind who most of the time operates at full speed except when she stops to smell the flowers.

Storm Debris

I was out mowing the lawn and all of the sudden it got very grey and the wind swooped in, rugs started flying off the deck and leaves were blowing all over. It was pretty crazy stuff.

New skills

This is what happens when little girls decide to scale the dresser with no help instead of taking a nap. When it comes time for dinner they pass out in the high chair. The newest skills she has picked up in the last week or so include scaling the dresser, opening the screen door, and attempting to climb the fence. She also picked up from somewhere "No Way", instead of just "no".

One of her other new favorite things is sitting in her lawn chair on one side of the fence while her friend next door sits in hers on the other side of the fence. They chat just like little ladies and swap snacks. If Emma is not at the fence her friend will stand there and yell "Emma Grace, Emma Grace, come here..." Too cute.