Em oughta be in pictures...
...and of course, she is in many, including this batch from the past few weeks:

On a recent weekend, we went kite flying at a nearby park. Emma actually helped Daddy hold the string for a bit, and was as excited as always when the kite went up. The park had a really cool playground too, with lots of slides and swings and this neat bulldozer, that Em asked Daddy to climb in with her.

More from Gymboree - Here are Emma and Macey having a slide race at Gymboree, and sharing a laugh during another Gymboree class.

The morning of the Wiggles concert, Emma and Mommy went for a long walk through Highland Park with Em's honorary grandma, Ginny. Emma likes to pick dandelions while we're out at the park, and she likes to pet all the dogs that we pass on the path, too. (We always check to make sure the dogs are friendly before letting Em say hi to them!) The long, early morning walk was designed to get Em to take an earlier than usual nap pre-Wiggles show, by the way. However, Emma opted to not nap at all that day instead!

On a recent weekend trip to the playground up at the beach, Emma demonstrated the powers of static electricity while going down the slide. That's some crazy hair!

Emma recently received her first dollhouse, given to her by one of Daddy's coworkers (thanks Sandy!). It is very, very big, and Em doesn't have any furniture or official dolls for it yet... but she still loves to play with it, from inside and out! She uses her various stuffed animals, like Pooh and Piglet (of which she has several different versions) and if that gets too dull, well, Chloe the cat likes to play in the house, too! Chloe also likes to stretch out on the roof of the house, which is juuuuuust out of Emma's reach - for now!

Last but not least, we now have a new Kodak digital camera, as our old one inexplicably broke, and isn't repairable since it is obsolete, what with being over two years old and all... The new one is an upgrade (another Kodak), and has lots of kewl features that Mommy is still getting the hang of, but one thing that she has mastered already is the video feature. Here's a video clip of Emma singing the ABCs while accompanying herself on the piano, then going for the big piano solo finish. (Yep, you hear her right - she does sing next time won't you sing with Emma instead of me... :) ) As always, the video file is rather gigantic (we're talking MBs instead of KBs here), so if you have (goodness forbid) dial-up, you're probably better off skipping this clip, unless you have a lot of time on your hands to wait for it to download!
- posted by Heather @ 10:06 PM