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Even More Fun!

I found my colored pencils last night in the bottom of my box of art supplies. I hardly ever use colored pencils, so I took them out for Emily to color with.

Emily and I were in her room, playing with all her toy food. (She loves pretending to get things to eat from the box, but she hasn't really got the concept of pretending to cook the food. For her, the food and the kitchen are two completely different sets of toys.) So we were playing with her food, and she gave me a plastic orange to eat; I pretended to peel it, and she protested "No, you don't peel it. You peel a banana!" So I explained to her that you can peel an orange, too. And since I happened to buy some oranges when we were at the market this morning, I went and got one and showed her how to peel it, and we ate it together.

Later, we were in her tent and she got her Peter Pan book for me to read to her. We got to the part where Peter is looking for his shadow, and I asked Emily "Where is your shadow?" She didn't know, so I brought her out into the light, and showed her her shadow on the floor, then on the wall. She was very excited, especially when she waved her hand and the shadow waved back. She had a good time hopping up and down with her shadow on the wall. I tried to take a picture, but the flash made the shadow go away.

Christmas 2009

Christmas Portrait 2009

Waiting for Daddy

Daddy is talking to somebody about a job, and we're keeping ourselves amused in the car while we wait. Good thing we brought the books!

P.S. (Friday, 18 Dec.) He got the job!

Halloween Fun

Emily spent the day next door with our neighbor, who watches her for us every now and then. Ken and I were busy moving things from a storage space across town to a garage here on the property. Emily stayed with Miss Renee and her dog Roscoe, and had a great time. She wanted to wear her Minnie costume, but we talked her into wearing her special Halloween outfit from Nana Jo instead. After we got her dressed, she decided she needed a hat.

After we picked her up from Miss Renee's house, we went back home and finally got to put the Minnie costume on! We gave Emily/Minnie a black nose and some whiskers, and headed up to Vancouver where some friends had invited us for dinner and Trick-or-Treating around their neighborhood.

Emily was a Trick-or-Treat star! She marched right up to the very first door and knocked on it, and held up her bucket and said "Trick or Treat!" without any prompting at all - in fact, she was ready to go inside and sit a spell with her new friends! The only time she hesitated was when we came to a house with scary decorations and spooky noises; but once the door was opened by a little boy in a spider suit, she was her sociable self again. We met lots of nice people, collected a bucketful of candy, and had a very happy Halloween!

Not only did Emily do everything all by herself, but this is what I got when I offered to help her ring the doorbell at one house!

Minnie Mouse

Emily is very, very excited about being Minnie Mouse.
She has a little pumpkin bucket for when we go Trick-or-Treating,
and she absolutely cannot wait!

More pictures to follow.