Amazing Emily

I meant to include this in the last posting, but I'm kind of glad to do it separately because there's more to add tonight.  Apparently I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, because Emily is sure a big helper when it comes to food prep.  It's kind of annoying when I'm doing lots of chopping or frying or dealing with hot pans, because she wants to help and I just can't risk her getting burned or cut, but otherwise it's lots of fun.  We came home from grocery shopping yesterday and I had to feed Audrey right when we walked in the door, and Emily started going through the bags.  I just held my breath, thinking that it's just food and I can probably fix it all later, but she actually put things in the right places!!  She put the yogurt and jam on the right shelf in the fridge (got her stepstool to help!) and with my verbal direction, she put the cheese and tortillas in the right drawer, and had started putting things into the pantry by the time I was done feeding Audrey.  When I joined in to help her, she had already put the 5-lb bag of flour right next to the one already on the bottom shelf, which had to be hard for her little arms to do!!  I was so impressed!! 

So, tonight, while I was cooking, she decided to start playing in the silverware drawer, and again I just let her play... I was too lazy to find something else for her to do!  She went into the dining room and put a placemat at each of place, and I could hear her singing "One to mom, one to dad, one to me, one to Audrey!!"  She only has one preposition that she uses, so everything is "to" these days.  Then she got forks and spoons and again put one at each place, still talking to herself.  Isn't that great?  Not only was it a big help, but I think that "one for each" is one of those math concepts that's taught in preschool and stuff.  It was so neat to see her applying it as part of something fun.

Now if I could just get her to fall asleep before 9 PM at night.  These days, we get to choose between an easy naptime after a lousy morning, or no naptime with a lousy evening and easy bedtime.  Ugh!