Emma Hadassah 2 Years 9 Months

Emma is such a fun little girl! Her imagination is all over the place now which makes playing with her a lot of fun.  Here are some highlights from the last month.

While driving to Maua (Mark’s childhood home), Emma was so surprised that there were trees all along our drive. She kept saying “Kenya has trees here too!!”

Emma is a super thankful child.  She is always thanking us for things such as breakfast, lunch, dinner, when we give her a bath, set her water station up, play with her…etc. She will say “Daddy, thank you so much for getting my play-doh! I like it so much!”

The other day while in the car we were listening to a CD that had our wedding song on it. We explained it to Emma and she said “Guys, this is our song!!” Sure kid, it can be yours too :)

Emma has become a huge backseat driving!! This is how the conversation goes…E: “Dad watch out for those people, move over daddy there is a car, dad watch out for the cows, dad don’t hit the goats!” M: “Thanks, Emma.”

Nowadays, Emma wants to know what we are talking about. She will come up to us and say “Guy, what are you talking about?”

Emma is super animated when she talks. She shakes her head and waves her hands all around.

One night I was trying to get Emma to go to bed so I started to sing “Hey sister, soul sista, it’s time to go to bed sista!” She responded with “Hey mommy, no mommy, I’m not going to bed mommy!"

Emma LOVES art. She could sit there and paint for hours.

She still likes to help with her brother. Especially when it comes to feeding him.

Emma has been learning boundaries when it comes to her brother. She is SUPER affectionate and sometimes hugs her brother a little too hard. :)

We have entered the hard stage of parenting with having to discipline Emma more.  Sometimes I think her attitude is an almost 3 year old going on 13...I will accept any advice you may have on this issue :)

Fun Things We Did This Month:
We got to visit Grandma and Grandpa Fogleman twice this month!! Emma loved seeing them and playing Go Fish and play-doh with them. 

Emma got to feed a Giraffe for the first time! It was also her first time to see a real giraffe. She was excited at first but after feeding the giraffe once, she was ok to just play on a large rock where she could still see them.

We went on a fun hiking trip around Thompson Falls one Saturday.  Emma loved running around and finding big sticks.  She keeps asking to hiking again :)

Tot School:
We are slowly starting to get back into a Tot School routine. Emma has missed it, I have missed it, and we both like structure. Some days we are able to sit and do a whole lesson, other days we are on the back patio and I draw shapes, numbers, or letters with chalk on the ground and she pours water on them.

On days we have to travel or have a lot of things going on, we still try to keep an environment of learning for her as she loves to learn. Hopefully in April we will be on a more set schedule as William is also starting to take longer naps.

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