October 26, 2008

Emma is such a joy. She is back to being able to spend the night with Grandma and not worrying about her momma being here. She makes us laugh so much while she is here. She is into the movie Free Willy and Free Willy 2. I sure wish I had the money to take her to Sea World. She gets so involved in the movie with a lot of “Uh oh” and “Oh NO!” She tells me “Willy… water… oh no” She also is into asking for help. She says “help me” and it sounds like “happy” so I say “you’re happy?” and she says in a very clear voice “NO… help ME” Kevin thinks that is so funny, he will say that just to hear her say “NO.. Help ME” She also sings Happy Birthday to everyone, whether they are here or not. Tonight she was singing Happy Birthday to Tara. I said that Tara is sleepy, we should sing her sleepy songs. She thought that was a lot of fun, she would sing then tell me “shhhh, sleeping”
We had a big few days while I was babysitting her off and on. Thursday Jordan and Brianna had to be in Spearfish for Jordan’s MRI on his knee. Emma and I went out to Grandpa Lee and Grandma Mert’s so Emma and Emilee can play together some. She had a great time. Friday she helped make Pigs in the Blanket while Jordan and Brianna got the car ready for Jordan to take it out of town to school this coming week. She did a great job with it. She loves to cook. Today Brianna and Jordan worked at the bar in Hulett and I babysat Emma. We made cookies and carved her pumpkin and made fried chicken for supper.
Emma helping with the pumpkin was so funny. We cut the whole in the top and gave it to her and said “you need to pull out all the seeds” She wasn’t about to stick her hand in there. I teased her a few minutes before I put my hand in and pulled out a bunch of seeds, then she got right into it. She did a pretty good job cleaning it out but never seemed to sure of the feeling of that pumpkin guts. I got great pictures and video though. We did the Little Mermaid on her pumpkin. It turned out really cute and she is so proud of it. I feel bad though that they won’t be home until Friday night and she won’t have a chance to enjoy it. They will be doing one at Grandma Marla’s though so that will be nice for her to enjoy. Brianna and Emma are going to stay over there while Jordan is at work. I will sure miss her!