We Won an Emi!!!!

Our little girl is growing up so fast! She is now crawling like crazy and can pull herself up. She has 6+ teeth and will gladly sharpen them on you. She loves to talk and if you ever talk top me on the phone you will definitely hear her and her vast vocabulary--"Lalala, dadadadada, mamama, nanana." Her favorite is dada...of course. She is starting to turn into a Daddy's girl, but sometimes she's still Mommy's little one. Every night I tuck her in and tell her not to grow up, but if she must then we have to be best friends. Then, I sing her "I am a Child of God," and she grabs her blanket, sucks her thumb, rolls on her side, and falls asleep. She is a spirited baby, and never stops moving! She's beautiful and we love her and wouldn't want her to be any different!

Than Dance

At the class Than is taking they have a sort of circle time and they all dance to get the kids attention, and if you've never seen Than dance then you're in for a treat.

Than's Arts and Not so Crafty

Than is now in a "class" at the nearby Children's Museum and they do a lot of arts and crafts. Than hasn't really gotten into the crafts until recently, now he at least loves to paint. He even got to make a spider and eat it! Now, if you ask him if eats spiders, he says "Yeah!"

Something Good

We were having "Costco Home Evening" last night, and Jim had the idea to put Emi on the conveyor belt. Not only wa sit adorable, but it reminded me of a book my Mom used to read to me that reminded her of me: "Something Good" by Robert Munsch. In the book a little girl is driving her Dad crazy while shopping and when the Dad couldn't take anymore her to stay still and don't move a muscle till they were done shopping. So, she literally stays there and doesn't move and an employee at the grocery store thinks she's a life size doll because, she's staying so still. So, after a while the Dad comes back and they try to leave and the manager insists that the Dad must pay for her because she has a price tag on her. After arguing for a little while, the little girl chimes in "But, Daddy aren't I worth 17.95?" The Dad realizes what he must do and pays the 17.95 for his daughter and makes her day. That was totally something I would do when I was a kid.

Halloween

We're already encouraging her to go into science--she's an astronaut. She had a tinfoil helmet but really didn't like it.





Jim carved the Hithhiker's Guide to the Galaxy logo/face. I carved the Hitchiker's thumb. Not a lot of people got it, but we thought it was awesome!



The cutest train I've ever seen.