This girl makes us LAUGH all the time. We are pretty sure she is a future attorney and we know this because she is forever negotiating and arguing. She is difficult to turn down sometimes as she throws out the sweetest 'pweeeease???' and then 'tank you tank you tank you sooo much!'
One of my favorite things about Emma Kate is that nothing gets her down. This can be a problem sometimes in parenting. When she gets sent to time out she pouts her way over there, plasters a sad face on but the moment that we tell her she can get out she just comes bee-bopping her way out to give her obligatory 'I'm sorry' then goes along her merry way. I'm slightly concerned maybe she's a budding sociopath but instead I'm just choosing to hope that instead she's going to grow up to be one of those people who just lets things roll off their back! :)
Emma Kate adores her big sister and wants nothing more than be just like her, but of course with her own twist. Harper loves horses? Emma Kate loves ducks. Harper wants to be a horse-rider when she grows up? Emma Kate wants to be a duckkeeper. :) Sometimes we feel guilty because Emma Kate gets basically all of Harper's hand-me-downs but EK is so proud that something that used to be Harpers is now all her own! EK will be starting PreK3 at the same school Harper will be at for kindergarten and EK is SO excited to finally be going to the school that Harper has been at for 2 years.
Emma Kate also loves, loves babies and especially Caroline. She generally is very gentle and sweet with her though they love to get rowdy with each other. Yesterday they got into a screaming contest - and not an unhappy one - just wanted to see who could yell the loudest!
If you spend any time at all with Emma Kate, you know that her most favorite thing in the world right now is Little Mermaid. Often she will not respond to her name and instead insists I call her Ariel. Yesterday when I laid her down for nap she would only call me Prince Eric. So then for the next 5 minutes I hear her yelling for me to come fix her blanket... 'Pwince Ewic, Pwince Ewic, I neeeeed you!' She had her birthday party at a little tea room in Lexington that was the sweetest and of course had Ariel in attendance.
EK has quite the imagination and does such a great job of entertaining herself. She usually loves going to her Skilz classes although sometimes puts up a fight if Harper isn't going with her. The other day in class they were explaining one of the drills - the kids had to run down and pick up bean bags and run back.. and Emma Kate so sweetly looks at the teacher and says 'but I don't like running.' HA. She must get that from me. She loves coloring and crafting and generally will play along with most anything that Harper concocts for them to do. Often times EK pretends to be the puppy dog but she insists that she likes being the puppy.
She has the funniest, most expressive little facial expressions and the cutest sayings. My current favorite is how she says 'o-tay' instead of OK. She often covers her mouth with both hands with she gets really tickled about something and it is pretty cute.
Recently she got a scrape on her knee that bled and bled and then left a huge scab. Of course she refused a band-aid. One night we were encouraging her to go to sleep and told her that she needed to stay in bed for it to heal better. The next morning she laid in bed until 1130 AM insisting that she needed to stay there in order for it to heal! I'm not sure where that stubborn streak comes from :)
She loves her blonde hair and blue eyes and is proud that she's the only one in the fam with them! We encourage her to eat vegetables so that her hair can grow long and she is finally so happy that it can be put into a braid, just like Elsa :).
We love this big-hearted girl that is so full of joy!
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