I may be in over my head...

So Emmaline looks pretty sweet and harmless, right? Well, I'm not so sure any more. I think she's much too smart for her own good, and has a little bit of her Mommy's "little evil man that she keeps tied up pretty well in her brain most of the time." So here's a couple of stories for you, that I thought were pretty funny.

Story number one. Emmaline hates it when I sing. Hates it. She tells me to be quiet because I'm making her sad. She also knows that Pocahontas is my favorite Disney movie. So a couple of weeks ago, she wanted me to sing her a Pocahontas song. I was shocked! (A couple of side notes; for Christmas she got a bunch of plastic food, and she also got the movie Fivel Goes West. Well on Fivel Goes West, his sister Tanya is singing a song, and the other mice start throwing tomatoes at her. Do you see where I'm going with this?) Of course I didn't make the connection that soon, and I start singing Pocahontas songs for her, a little excited that she finally wanted Mommy to sing to her, and lo and behold, she started throwing fruits and vegetables at me. (And really just fruits and vegetables...the plastic food comes with boxes of cookies, and milk, and stuff like that, but she just picked out the fruit and vegetables.)


Story number two. We found my old copy of Snow White the other day, and Emmaline has loved it, and watches it all of the time now. We've also been buying a lot of little green apples, because they're on sale, and Emmaline eats them like crazy. She'll eat two or three a day. So the other day, I'm sitting on my bed, and she comes in with an apple, hands it to me, and says, "Here, have a bite." Just like the witch does on Snow White, and then she laughs out a cackle, and walks out of the room. Yikes. Don't believe the suicide note.

(The pictures are actually from October, and really have nothing to do with either story, I just don't really like putting up a post without pictures :))

Oh my goodness! She just did it to me again! Every night we get her pj's on, and brush teeth, and read scriptures in Mommy and Daddy's bed, and I'm always the last one in, and so she hides under the blankets with Royce, and I have to come in and find her. Every night. OCD. So just after I finished posting the above, she comes up to me, and wants to go hide, and she wants me to come and find her. So I let her hide, and I go in my room, (leaving the light off) and the blankets were off the bed, so I thought she was behind it on the other side, so I look back there, and she's not there, so I thought I heard her wrong, and she was really in her room hiding, so I'm just about to my bedroom door to go look for her in her room, and she jumps out from behind the door, and yells, "Boo!" She almost gave me a heart attack! I had no idea she was there, and I just about had to change my pants. I even screamed a little. I'm in big trouble here folks.

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Christmas Pics Continued

Here's another from the children's museum. They had a little "hospital" set up, and Emmaline loved it in there, because of the babies. It took a lot of convincing to get her to put the baby back so she could go play in the rest of the museum. She loves babies. :)
This was back at the timeshare rental. Grandma and Grandpa got Lea and Mike a new pack for when their baby comes. This is Aunty Lea around 5mo pregnant.
Apparently we were all pretty tired. The only ones awake were Lea and Emmaline. (It's not Emmaline on the floor beside me; it's a doll she got for Christmas, but when I fell asleep she put her blanket on me, and put her dolly beside me, and a blanket on the dolly. She's such a sweetheart :) Every time Royce falls asleep, she always gets him a toy to sleep with, and wraps him up in a blanket :) )

More Pictures from Christmas

Mike and Lea sent me some more pictures from Christmas. Luckily someone is responsible enough to take pictures :) These are from Christmas Eve...we all thought it was pretty funny that we were swimming on Christmas Eve. It was great :)
Aunty Lea and Uncle Mike.
Grandma and Emmaline

We also went to the children's museum, and that was a lot of fun. Emmaline loved it; there was so much to do. And there were six of us adults following her around, showing her new stuff to try.

Well, maybe five adults and two kids. Just kidding :) Aunty Lea was the only one skinny enough to sit on the "horse" without breaking it. :)

Happy Valentines Day! (Thanks for the clothes, Grandma :) )

Grandma sent Emmaline a little Valentines Day package, and there were two super cute dresses, so we thought we'd put up our little fashion show. (I only got pictures of the one dress, but I'll take a picture of the other when she wears it. We're going to dinner tomorrow, and she'll wear one then, and the other on Sunday.)
I was trying to get a video of her reading the "If you give a moose a muffin" book, but I couldn't get her to do it. She read it to Daddy's sock puppets last night, but she wouldn't do it for the camera.
They also sent her a little heart with chocolates, and I had forgotten that my grandma would give us little boxes of Whitman chocolates on Valentines Day. (The little tin ones...remember Lea?) It was kind of nostalgic; keeping the tradition going. I even teared up a little. :)
Oh, and we opened the package a day early, because I wasn't even thinking about it being a valentine's day present. Sorry.

She also got valentines from Nana and Papa, which included stickers; the valentines were Tinkerbell, and Kung Fu Panda, two of her favorites. And each of the kids at home, sent her a seperate valentine, and she just kept pulling them out one by one, getting more excited as they came. :)
And Royce and I got her a little surprise too, so she made out pretty well for Valentines Day this year :) (Okay, she might be a little spoiled :) )

Random Pics

I'm going through all of our pictures on the computer and printing them off so that I can put them in an album, and these are a few that I thought were pretty cute. This one is from Christmas, when we were at New Braunfels with my parents.
This is when we went to the trail of lights in Austin a week before Christmas.
Haha...this is Uncle Will. Scariest redneck picture ever. Marissa won't even look at it. Smart girl. :) Haha...and he couldn't grow his own, so he had me fill in part of his mustache (or whatever you call that thing) with mascara. Hahahahaha.

Cherry Pie

Here's a cherry pie that I made for Royce; the Elders quorum is having a pie night for an activity. (What's with all the weird activities they have? Has anyone else noticed that? In our last ward it was like a steak night thing.)
I used the same stencil from Thanksgiving, but my mom got me some leaf cookie cutters that make an imprint onto the leaf, so I tried that around the border.