This month
has flown by! Emma was on a pretty good schedule this month which made our
lives a little easier :) She continues to produce more and more sentences and loves
to make us laugh.
-Emma loves
to sing and dance! She has started to sing some Swahili songs we sing in church
and likes to make up her own songs. Her favorite kind of dance party is when
she can climb on the coffee table and dance to Alvin and the Chipmunks.
-Emma has a
great memory of people who visit us or that she sees on a daily basis. She will
randomly ask where grandma, grandpa, and miss Carolyn are (they all visited at
the same time), where Mr. Jim and Mrs. Shawn are, and where Mary (our house
help), Martha (language helper) and Joy (co-worker) are :)
-She tries
to bargain with us now. For example, if she wants to stay in her bath longer
she will say “ok momma, two more minutes” I’ll respond with “no Emma it’s time
to get out” she then says “ok momma, one more minutes and Emma will get out.”
-Emma loves
to help when we cook! Her favorite thing to do is the mixing.
-Emma calls
the town we live in Hudududu (Nyahururu).
-She is a
bit fearless. She loves to jump from our coffee table to the couch. The other
day she fell twice and hit her head on the couch and table. After a few tears
she wanted to get back up and try it again. I admired her desire to keep at it
even though she fell and got hurt.
-Emma enjoys clearing the table and carrying dishes to the kitchen.
-Emma will
ask when we are going to “Niwobi” to check up on baby brother. She is always
concerned about him and ask if he is awake or asleep and likes to put her hands
on my belly.
-The other
day Emma was on my lap in the car crying because she thought someone sat in her
carseat. All the sudden her baby brother
kicked and she smiled and said “Bubba kicked me!!” It made her day and she
stopped crying.
-When we
told Emma we were going back to America in Nov. one of the first things she
said was “and GiGi and Paps will take me for donuts!!” Girl after my own heart :)
-A new
favorite phrase of hers is “oh that sounds fun!”
-Emma’s
favorite song to sing is “Hakuna Matata.”
-Emma has
been watching the Lion King lately and the other day she was scared to go into
the kitchen because she said there were hyenas in there. I told her the hyenas
can’t get her because Jesus was with her and would protect her. She goes “Oh!”
then went in the kitchen and said the ‘hyenas’ “Jesus is with me, go away!”
-At night
when it’s time to put on her jammies, Emma likes to strip down and run around
the house naked yelled “naked baby buns!”
Fun Things We Did This Month:
-This month
we had both pastor appreciation day and bishop appreciation day. Emma enjoyed
playing with all the kids and eating her weight in chapatis.
-Took a trip
to Nairobi to check up on baby brother! While in Nairobi, we took Emma to play
on a new playground. She LOVED it! It took her a little bit to warm up to the
big slides and to get the courage to do things on her own but after two hours
we had a hard time getting her to leave.
When we were ready to leave Emma did not want to go so I asked if she
wanted some ice cream…she wasn’t interested. Next, I asked if she wanted and
smoothie and she said “Yes!” and was ready to leave :)
-We have
been soaking up the warmer afternoons here. Emma has gotten to play in her
little pool almost every day. She really wants to learn how to swim but sadly
her pool is only ankle deep. Maybe one day we will have a bigger pool kiddo!
Tot School:
-Tot school
was great this month! Emma learned her days of the week and months of the year.
I have figured out that if I turn something into a song she will catch on
quickly. We are working on recognizing
numbers and letters now. She still loves the art part of tot school. She loves
to paint and color and just being creative.
Pictures from this month:
