June 5, 2008

Today is Brianna’s 22 birthday so Emma came over and we made a birthday cake for her. Emma loves to cook and bake (especially when she has beaters to lick) She broke an egg for me. She did very well, we didn’t even get any shell in the mix! She hit the side of the bowl with it and it cracked really hard, it was funny. When we were frosting the cake it was hard keeping her fingers out of it. (Thanks Grandpa Lee!) She loved putting the sprinkles on, although she got fed up with them being on the cake when they could be in her mouth! Then we put 22 squiggly candles on it, that was her favorite part. She just stuck them in all over the cake, it was so cute. She thought she should be able to open mom’s presents but was disappointed that they weren’t much fun. She helped blow out the candles on the cake, I think she blew for about 10 minutes afterwards just remembering how fun it was.



Emma is getting so grown up. She is talking more and more now. She still jabbers some but she also lets us know what she wants with some words. She loves Bindi and when we turned it on today they were in Bear Country in Rapid City. Emma got excited and started saying “Bear”. She recognized it right away.



We have had a bit of a problem with one of her little cousins taking toys away from her when she plays with her so I told her she can tell people “No… Don’t” when they take things away from her. She learned this lesson very well and when her momma took her microphone away to see something on it, Emma looked at her and said “NO!” and took it back.



Last weekend we all were in Casper for Uncle Jarrod’s graduation from the Apprentice program. We stayed at the Parkway and Emma thought staying in a motel was loads of fun. She loved the pool and didn’t want to get out of it. She loved taking us for walks and we always ended up down by the pool for some reason. She would look in the window and say “there” or “Weeee” She would go by the drinking fountain and say “mmmm” then she would head to the music playing in the bar and want to go there to dance. She didn’t understand why she couldn’t go in there. She was such a good baby all weekend. So fun and gave us loads of laughs. I get such a kick out of her.



I gave Emma some mini rice cakes and she dropped one. Tara grabbed it up and Emma came to me saying “Maaaa…. Tara” then she made a chomp sound. She was telling me that Tara ate her treat! It was so funny, well to me it was, she didn’t think it was too funny. She is getting really bossy with Tara now. She tells her “Tara, come” and “Tara, no!” and “Tara, stay”. Tara doesn’t know what to think of her anymore now. She still likes to follow Emma around when Emma has food though.