Emma's favority toy

Despite all of her toys, the puppies are still Emma's favorite toy. Here she is playing tug with Cassie (mostly Cassie just drags her around until she gets bored and drops the toy):

Cooking

Emma loves to help in the kitchen so Mommy and Daddy got her an early holiday present, a Learning Tower so she can reach the counters to help. She took to it immediately:

Here she is helping Aunt Stephanie (the original Betty Crocker of the family) make a pumpkin pie:



Thanks for the great gift Mommy & Daddy and for letting me help Aunt Stephanie!

Catch

Emma has started a new sport, her "Ba toss" (pacifier for those not in the know). She discovered it was great fun to toss the "ba" off Mimi & Papa's second story to us peasants on the ground:

She also loves to catch things thrown off the balcony, especially sheets and towels:

Up & coming geek

Emma loves to play with daddy's Ipad, onto which he has loaded many kids games (but mommy prefers to believe she is in early training to be a geek like daddy):

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at Mimi & Papa's house with everyone there (Aunt Stephanie & Uncle Mike came in). Aunt Stephanie and Mommy had fun teaching me all the Thanksgiving traditions in the Wurtzel house. Here she is tasting the stuffing straight from the turkey:

Here we are picking the skin off the turkey before carving:

Here is Emma picking bits of turkey as they are being carved:

Here she is helping Mimi scoop out the stuffing:

And here she is making the biscuits:

And here she is sharing what she is thankful for on the tablecloth.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Betty Crocker

Emma has discovered that she LOVES baking (she obviously got the sweet tooth from mommy and the skills from Aunt Stephanie). Here she is making cookies with Mimi:

Here she is taste testing her product:

And here is a cute little video of her "scooping" cookies:

Landscape Management

Mommy and Daddy spent the last two weekends raking up the leaves in the yard. The only one who seemed to enjoy the activity was Emma, who "helped," in a manner of speaking:


And here is a little video of her raking them up:

Emma singing

Emma got a new microphone (thanks Mimi) and has discovered a love of singing. She clearly gets her singing talent, by which we mean lack thereof, from her mother, and the making up of words from her Mimi.

Thanks for the great gift Mimi.

Emma pillow

Emma loves crawling onto the dog bed so that Sammy can use her as a pillow, if you ignore the tugging that Emma employs to get Sammy into her lap:

Emma prairie dog

Emma got to go to the Detroit Zoo over the weekend with Mimi and Papa. She had lots of fun, especially when she got to crawl into a prairie dog town: