July 25, 2008

It has been almost 20 days since I wrote in this last time. I am slacking for sure!
Emma is so funny. She is getting more and more personality each day along with her vocabulary. She spent the week with me while her parents were in Rapid City staying with Grandpa Ron who is pretty sick (but improving, thank God). She did very well without seeing her parents although she wasn’t about to let go of them when they came home.
Emma is a smart little girl. I asked her to get her pull-ups out of her drawer. I told her they were in the third drawer down, to count from the top, 1, 2, 3. She went in the bedroom and counted the drawers and opened the right one, getting out her pull-up. She has been doing pretty good telling us when she has too pooh but still doesn’t let us know when she needs to potty. I put her in big girl panties one morning and she had one accident then she didn’t have another while she was in them. When we had to go, I changed her back into pull-ups and she wet in those. Maybe I will really work on her this weekend while she is spending the night while the kids go back to the hospital.
Hmm… what was some of the cute things Emma did this month. Well, everything she does is cute, ok almost everything. We went to a friends house and picked some greens from the garden. She loved being in the garden and looking at all the flowers. My friend asked her if she wanted some flowers, so they went around picking out which flowers she wanted for the bouquet. Emma was so funny with how picky she was on which flowers she wanted. It turned out to be a nice bouquet and my friend put them in a small vase for her. She carried that vase all the way home, only letting me hold it a little bit.
She still is obsessed with finding the dog pooh in the yard. She has to get the pooper scooper out and go looking each time when she is outside. I was in making dinner and grandpa was outside with her. She even made grandpa go looking with her.
She started singing songs a lot now. When she talked to her momma on the phone she would sing to her “mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy” I think it is because I make up songs with Emma or Emmalyne. She was so cute though. We are working on spelling her name with the bath markers in her bath tub. I spell it out and say “E M M A” and she will draw on the tub saying “E E E E” in the same tune as I sung. She will get it soon though.
We had a friend of Cassie’s and her little 7 mo old baby stay with us last weekend. Emma also stayed with us. Emma loved the baby and when we got the play center out she had to go in it also. She was almost on her knees in it. Brianna said “you are too big for that!” I told her she was reliving her childhood…Brianna was quick to point out that her childhood isn’t even 2 years yet!