The first crocuses of spring....

...were unceremoniously yanked up by their roots by our young missy...

....who didn't appear to have a shred of remorse about it.

I figured as long as they were out of the ground, we might as well get a photo op out of it.

Okay...I've been meaning to document cute things that Emma's been saying lately. She's talking up an absolute storm, but sometimes runs into problems getting her words untangled and out of her mouth. She makes progress every day, though.

- She likes to agree with me by saying, "Yeah! I do!" This works well lots of the time (when I ask, for example, "Do you want a piece of cheese?" "Yeah! I do!") and makes me laugh when I say something like, "Won't it be fun to get your Easter basket?" "Yeah, I do!!"

- Sometimes when we look at alphabet letters I'll say something like, "That's a 'B'. What sound does a 'B' make?" She's so used to hearing me ask her what sound a letter makes that whenever she hears an unfamiliar noise she wants to know what sound it makes (e.g., we heard thunder booming yesterday afternoon and Emma said, "What's that sound make?")

- She likes to talk about what things are edible vs. inedible. She'll see a picture of...a truck. "No eat truck!" she'll say. "No, we certainly don't eat trucks." Then she'll start reciting a list of things we can't eat...her blanket...the chair...her sippy cup....[and moving on to people]....Mama...Aunt Barbie, etc. "No eat Aunt Barbie!" When she sees a picture of something we CAN eat, she then wants to announce whether we have to cook it or not. "Can eat grapes....no cook grapes," she says, making the sign for cook by flipping her palm back and forth on her other hand. One day she saw a picture of a lobster and said, "No eat lahster!" I said, "Yes, you can eat lobster. But you have to cook it first." She seemed fascinated by this. Sometimes out of the blue she'll pipe up with "Can eat lahster!!"

-- She has a hard time saying "watch" and says "cha" instead. When she gets up in the morning and wants to watch cartoons she'll say, "Cha T.V.?" And sometimes she'll say, "Mom! Cha me!" if she's doing something she wants me to see.

-- She also has a hard time with "fall" and says "la" instead. If she falls off her chair she'll say, "Emma la down."

-- She says "yeah, sure, you betcha" sometimes.

She's a delight, even when she does pick the flowers.