Cute stories about Emma Claire over the last several days:
**On one of my green days Emma Claire was spending a lot of time with me in the bathroom. And let me say she did very well entertaining herself. She decided that she needed to take one of her babies potty. She opened her little potty lid and so carefully placed her baby on the potty. She said "potty, okay", "You want a book", "I be right back, I go get a book, okay?" In a few minutes here she came back with a book for her baby. She laid it in her lap so perfectly and told her baby to go potty and said, "I Cean". She went into the living room and came back with her vaccum. She quickly vacuumed all the rugs in the bathroom and then squatted down in front of her baby and said "Did you go potty? Yea, Yea, Yea." She picked her up looked in the potty and said "There no potty in there!"
**The other night we had a dinner at Benjamin's work for prospective students. After the meal they had someone getting up to speak so Benjamin took Emma Claire into the restroom because it was impossible to keep her quiet for the whole speech. While in the restroom Emma Claire was again entertaining herself. Benjamin said she would go in each stall, shut the door, give herself a spanking, and say "Obey. Okay. Okay." I'm not sure if she was making fun of her mommy or just reminding herself to obey.
**We were home the other night and Emma Claire started saying "Nanny, Praise Da Lord. Praise Da Lord." We finally figured out that she was singing 'If Your Happy & You Know It Praise Da Lord'. Nanny (Ms. Shelia at church) had taught her to sing it that way and when she would say 'Praise Da Lord' she would put both hands up in the air. It was so cute.
**Emma Claire has learned how to say her blessing before she eats her food. It is the greatest thing ever. She will fold her hands and say "Dear God, Thank You For Food. Amen". The way she says it is even better. Imagine listening to an Old Southern Baptist Preacher say a prayer and that is just what she sounds like. "DEAR GOD. Thank you for food. AaaaMMMMeeeennnn".
**Emma Claire loves to climb. The other night in our living room she had laid down her chairs that go with her table and started climbing on them. To herself she started saying, "No climbing, it's dan-grous". We had no clue where she had gotten that from. After questioning her I asked her if she climbed on chairs at school and her teacher Mrs. Kelly told her not to because it was dangerous. Of course she said yes, so guess we need to be limiting our monkey time at home.
**On Wednesday nights Emma Claire has started going to Puggles at our church. She LOVES it! She will talk about Puggles all week and want to go to class with Mrs. Ashy. On the first night of her class she told us that God made the Stars and then would break out singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." It was all we heard for a week. This week she learned that God made EVERYTHING and it is so funny because she can't say it without throwing her arms around in the air showing what all God made. It is so impressive how quickly she has caught on after just going for two weeks.
**RaRa sent Emma Claire a package the other day that had a pair of new tennis shoes in it. She thought they were the grandest things. She walked around school the next day pointing her toe out and saying "See my new, new shoes?" She is such a hoot. The funny thing is, is that my classroom is all the way on the other end of the hallway. It took us about 15 minutes to get there because she had to stop and show everyone her new, new shoes.
