Other little things

Emmy has really gotten into Barbie dolls lately so I rented a Barbie Mermaid movie for her. She loved it and immediately began telling us she was going to be surfer when she grew up. She has been running around the house doing her surfer moves!! John’s dad had an old guitar that he fixed up for her and she loves playing it. She cracks me up when she has John accompany her on the piano so she can play her guitar and sing.

 

She thinks that McDonalds is Old McDonald’s.

 

We continue to have a rough time in the mornings. She gets up so early (6am) and the earlier we try to put her in bed, the more she fights it and the later it is when she actually goes to sleep. The other day she was in our bed (we are not consistently starting out in her bed in the evenings but even when we do, she wakes in our bed!) and I was trying to gently wake her. She woke up crying that we had moved her book while she slept. I told her she didn’t bring it in our room and it was still in her room so I carried her in there to kind of chill out. I went to put on my makeup and she got up, turned off the light and slammed the bedroom door!!! I thought she would be lying on the bed when I got there but she was sound asleep again. I fully expected lots of slamming of doors but I thought I had a few years before it started. Peggy (Gigi) said she took her girls’ doors off the hinges when they slammed them. I am afraid that is going to be coming around a lot sooner than later for us.

It is already the middle of August!

After searching and searching, I finally found a church that I like. Since I was still looking for so long, I didn't want to take Emmy Ruth until I was really sure about a place. When I finally decided on the church I like, I took Emmy. She was pretty adament that she didn't want to go to the children's church so I took her with me to the service. She did pretty well but I did learn that when selecting a baby to take to church, always find a baby doll with a soft face as those hard ones make lots of noise on the wooden pews!

She was so sweet when we were in church. While we were singing hymns, I was holding her on my hip and she sang in the sweetest, sweetest little voice. She would look at me and smile and then kiss my cheek and just sing along in her own words. When the pastor made a reference to John, Emmy exclaimed, "My daddy is John!" Of course, everyone thought she was just beautiful and wanted to say helo to her.

I told her the next week we were going to church the next week and she said, "but we went last week!!!"

We have so many things going on and keeping busy. Emmy loves her friends at school and she is starting to get used to the new routine. Her classroom is a lot more structured and not quite as much playtime for the kids.

Emmy has these other little phrases that I can't seem to break her from saying: "how many times do I have to tell you?" or "I told you!" or "I said ...".