Band Practice

Emma loves to play musical instruments (not always in tune). Here she is playing the toy guitar while Mimi plays the real guitar:

And here she is reversing roles and playing the real guitar. What a rock star!

World Traveler

Emma has become a world traveler without ever having left the United States. Here she is wearing the beautiful kimono that daddy brought her from Japan:

Airplane!

Aunt Stephanie taught Emma a new "game." She used to do this with Melissa when she was little. What fun!

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):