Emerson is 4!

My sweet 4 year old!

I know you're expecting me to lament this milestone but I'm actually kind of excited. I mean, this girl! She's so sweet and she's so fun lately. Yes, we have our meltdowns and moments but in general, life is full of new discoveries and so many ideas coming out of her head. Besides, there's just no baby left in her, she's all little girl now. She is actually the one lamenting this birthday. She's so excited for the celebration but keeps saying she wishes she could stay little forever. I think she's probably heard her grandmothers and me talking a little too much about our love of babies and keeping littles little.

Some of her favorite things right now are her dollies (aaaallll of them), the United States - she has a couple of states puzzles and she's getting really good at naming them, she's still my arts and crafts girl with her glitter glue, Purler/melty beads, coloring, drawing etc. She also still loves, loves, loves her books. She's so inquisitive and has so many questions about everything, and I mean real questions (for the most part) and she keeps so many details straight! She is loving math right now, and really interested in telling time, reading and Bible history (she'll ask me after Sunday School, Nehemiah was sad that the wall was destroyed and then he built it again but who broke the wall? Did that happen when Daniel was in the lions den or after?).

She has gone through some phases in this last year, don't we all. We love audiobooks in the car and she listens to them during quiet time and usually at night when she falls asleep.. we'll see if that's a good idea long term or not ;). She started her 3rd year loving the free Libravox podcasts of the Beatrix Potter Collection and a few Fancy Nancy audiobooks. I mean she ate, drank and breathed Beatrix Potter. I'll admit, I got a little tired of them - sweet as they are - and I started looking for more audiobook options. From there we downloaded the complete collection of Fancy Nancy, which are great but a little sassy. So we started looking into the library's audiobook option and found Winnie the Pooh, the original books read by British actors.. they're the sweetest! I'm already a little sad that we moved on from Beatrix Potter so swiftly (although she sometimes still requests them), I regret not waiting until she asked for more options.. but it was a sweet phase and now Winnie the Pooh is just as sweet. I'll be really sad when she's ready to move on from that. She almost always wants Winnie the Pooh when she's falling asleep but she also loves the Berenstain Bears, Mouse Tails, the Bear books (Bonny Becker's and Shirley Parenteau's two different series), Corduroy... oh so, so many more. She also went through an extensive Happy Birthday phase. She would sing to us and wrap something up as a present at least 15 times a day. If we asked her to bring us something, she'd wrap it in a napkin or blanket and sing us the song and then give us the thing we asked for... all day long.
She's had other phases too but they're not coming to mind.

I'm sure I could go on, but I'll stop here. I should have done a mid year post because there's just too much change to fit into one late night blog post! It's crazy how much changes in a year!<3 p="">

PS. Harrison HATES the chair

20 Months

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