Emma Victoria: 5 years old

1.  What is your favorite color?  pink

2.  What is your favorite toy?  rabbits (Calico Critters toy)

3.  What is your favorite fruit?  strawberries 

4.  What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  Chick Fil A sauce with chicken nuggets

5.  What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? oatmeal 

6.  What is your favorite thing to eat for supper?  pizza

7.  What is your favorite thing to drink?  water

8.  What is your favorite snack?  French fries

9.  What is your favorite show?  Elsa

10.  What are your favorite clothes to wear?  my star shirt 

11. What is your favorite animal?  penguins

12.  What is your favorite song? Psalty

13.  What is your favorite book?  Bible

14. What is your favorite thing to do with Daddy?  go on a date

15.  What is your favorite thing to do with Mommy?  go to the store 

16.  What is your favorite thing to do outside? play in the rock box 

17.  What is your favorite holiday?  summer

18.  What is your favorite thing to take to bed with you each night? my striped blanket

19.  Where is your favorite place to go?  to Chick Fil A 

20.  What do you want to be when you grow up?  a mama

When we were finished, she said, "I'm too tired from all the questions."

Emma loves to help in the kitchen!  She helped me bake her Elsa cake.  

My grandma made me a doll cake when I was a girl, and it was so much fun to make this one for Emma!

  

We all love our girl so much!

#5 pancake on the morning of her birthday!

We took the remainder of the Elsa cake to PreK for snack time on Emma's birthday.  By this point, Elsa wasn't doing too well-ha!

A few weekends later, we celebrated Emma's birthday with a doll tea party!  Emma was up before 7 on the morning of her tea party setting the table.

  

We read one of Emma's favorite books, "Little Mommy," played "Pass the Teacup" and did a marshmallow race with strawberry marshmallows.  It was so sweet!  My mom sewed the adorable matching dresses for Emma and her doll.   

 

Emma had one more cake the following weekend when we had our family over to celebrate both Emma and Josiah's birthdays.  Uncle Mike bought Emma this adorable strawberry cake!  

Emma is such a delight! Her smile lights up a room.  She enjoys going to PreK and is always cheerful when we pick her up, but she's happiest staying at home.  Emma loves to teach Josiah--she counts with him as he walks up the stairs, she sits and read books with him, and she works on puzzles with him.  She says she wants to be "just a mommy" when she grows up, and she's always at my right hand getting diapers for Josiah or filling his water bottle.  She loves cooking, cleaning, and especially vacuuming.  I just bought a new vacuum to use on our hard floors, and yesterday I found Emma emptying the filter on it.  (I hadn't even taken the time yet to figure out how to empty the filter!)   Emma is very affectionate and showers Josiah with kisses and hugs.  She likes playing dress-up, and she especially loves jumping on our big trampoline outside with Isaac.

I don't write down as many of the sweet and funny things that my kids have said that I'd like to, but here are a few I've written down this past year about Emma.

We were sitting at the railroad crossing, and the train was decelerating.  Emma said, "Mom, I think it's getting tired."

We were listening to "The Story of the World" CDs in the car, and during the chapter on civil rights, Emma asked, "Mom, what is desegregation?"

Emma: "I'm going to have 100 kids and live in Heritage when I'm a mom."  Other times she's told me that she's going to have a Suburban when she's a mom, but that I'll still need mine too to help her drive all her kids around.  

The two words she says incorrectly (and so adorably) are "planket" for "blanket" and "schlump"--now, "schlump" can mean a lot of things, but she usually uses it in place of "push" or "slide."  When we were sledding in Steamboat, she said, "Schlump down the hill!" 

When we are grocery shopping, Emma says, "Slice your credit card!" instead of "Slide your credit card!"

When we were driving home from Colorado after Christmas, Emma asked, "Are we in New Mexico yet?"  When we said, "No, not yet," she replied, "Well, then are we in Old Mexico?"

Another thing that Emma is constantly doing is counting and comparing the number of girls versus boys.  When we are home during the day and Dave's at work, she will announce, "There are two girls and two boys here."  When we are all home, she'll say, "Now there are two girls & three boys."  This past weekend when Nana and Papa were here and Dave was at work, she was excited that there were three girls and three boys.  

Emma Victoria, we love you so!