Pit Stops and Treasures at 27 Months

Emma is our little comedian.  Her favorite things to make us laugh include poop jokes and, well, poop jokes.  "See you later poo pee!" and "You have poop on your head!" are some of her favorite one liners.  When she isn't busy making us laugh, she can be found enjoying life as a toddler, playing outside, cuddling, and even hunting for treasure.

Emma is a full-speed ahead kind of gal.  She can't be bothered with opening doors, so she gets in and out of her vehicle "Dukes of Hazard" style.

 Here she is below riding her tractor, and then driving her asparagus delivery bike.

 Will is officially on summer break for the month of July, and I have been taking full advantage of having him home.  While I've been out and about kid-free, Emma has slowly, ever so slowly, been converted to a Daddy's girl.  We aren't completely there, but one time out of ten she will now pick Will over me.  It is definitely a start.

When I ask her, "Emma are you a Daddy's girl?"  Emma responds with, "Yup!  I love Daddy, Lucy AND Mama!"  Our goal here is not for her to pick Will one hundred percent of the time, but a nice 60/40 deal with me picked slightly more than Will would make everyone happy I think.

Emma loves babies.  Here she is below cuddling her cousin, Sam.

 When there isn't a real life baby around, Lucy and Emma play baby.  Emma plays a really good baby, it is almost scary.

 Emma seems to be growing taller this month and perhaps only I can tell, but her baby chub is stretching out too, much to my dismay.

She talks very matter of fact, and can uphold her end of the conversation on the phone now too.  She starts out quite a few of her sentences with, "So, ....".  She has also been known to shout "NOT FAIR!" a time or two thousand as well.

 It is especially unfair how much bugs like to bite my poor girl.  Here she is below with three mosquito bites by her eye.  She woke up in the morning and her eye was completely swollen shut.  Thankfully, it got better as the day wore on because I was getting concerned about the Neanderthal comments coming her way.

It seems like this past month I spent a lot of time in public restrooms with Lucy and Emma.  Lucy does fairly well following my directions, but Emma is like a caged animal.  Once that stall door closes, she is bouncing off the walls and floor like a ping pong ball as she waits her turn.  This is stressful for me as I envision all of the diseases she could be picking up off the floor.  The other day I caught her ankle as she was crawling under the divider wall into the stall next to us.  As I dragged her back she was proudly exclaiming, "I found a penny!!!"  Needless to say I scrubbed her and the penny down in the sink and Emma has been obsessed with pennies ever since.  Fortunately, the subsequent pennies she has found were all in slightly cleaner locations.  Below is a picture taken by Emma during one of our many restroom visits.  Thank God for the iPhone, as it is my saving grace in keeping Emma occupied while attending to business.

 Until next month, may your pit stops be few and your treasures be many!