ABCs

Emma loves to sing, especially her ABCs. Here she is singing them for Aunt Stephanie:

Not silly

Emma loves to put together puzzles, but sometimes likes to put pieces in silly places, just to tease mommy. When called on it once, she decided she didn't want to be silly anymore and continually announced it (and then hammed it up for the camera and gave a shout out to her Uncle Mike):

New dress

Emma got a beautiful ballerina dress from her Great Aunt Merryl and Emma was so excited to get to wear it yesterday during our heat wave. Here she is showing it off:

Thank you so much Aunt Merryl. She loves it and got tons of compliments on it!

Family love

Poor daddy doesn't seem so happy with this arrangement:

Ballerina

Emma still loves to play ballerina, and her favorite thing is finding new victims to wear the second tutu. Here is Papa taking his turn at the torture:

And the real dancer in the family, Aunt Stephanie, showing her some new moves:

Anyone else want a turn?

Visit from Aunt Merryl

Great Aunt Merryl came out to visit us and see Emma. And boy did Emma have a good time with her. Here she is posing:

Aunt Merryl came bearing lots of great gifts from Disney (she lives around the corner from Disneyland). Here is Emma modeling some wonderful Minnie hair-bows:
And finally, all of the girls together:


Thanks for visiting Aunt Merryl and for the great presents!

Bake & Taste

Emma has turned into quite the little baker. Her favorite thing to do is help mommy make buttercream frosting (particularly chocolate) and then do some personal clean-up. Here she is helping mommy "clean" the beaters;

The after effects of the cleaning:


And finally, enjoying the entire finished product of cupcake with chocolate frosting. Notice how adept Emma has become at the "fistful stuff" method of eating her sweets (not to mention the wonderfully disgusting array of foods she switches between while eating her sweets, here it is cupcake, oranges and chicken noodle soup, none of which were allowed to be removed from her sight):