Everything Emma: I Miss You Daddy!

Saturday, September 25, 2010

I Miss You Daddy!

About a week and a half ago I decided to make this sign so that I could get a picture of Emma holding it and send it to Issac via email. Emma and Issac have a particularly strong father-daughter bond which has made the separation from this deployment pretty difficult on both of them, Issac especially. I send him photos of Emma just about everyday- I refer to this as "Daddy's Daily Dose." He loves getting pictures of Emma and I and I know it really brightens his spirits. Anything that makes Issac happy always brings joy to my heart. He is truly the best husband and father I have ever seen and he continues to impress me more and more each day with how devoted he is to our family. I am so incredibly proud of the person he has become and am so thankful that our daughter has such a wonderful example to model herself after. We love and miss you so much sweetie! Soon we will all be together again and life will go back to being beautiful. One month down, five months to go. We are a strong family and can get through ANYTHING together. I love you with every inch of my being and cannot wait to be in your arms again!

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What Emma is Doing

All of her colors.

All of her letters.

All basic shapes and even a handful of more advanced one.

Can name all of her body parts.

Knows the days of the week and can even tell you which activities she has on which days.

She has been doing chores and has been responsible for cleaning her playroom and bedroom for about a year. In recent months she has gotten to a point where she will often begin her cleaning for the day without me having to ask or monitor her while she does it.

Can re-tell many of the stories from the Bible and can tell you all about Jesus.

Knows how to spell her name.

Learning how to write her letters- we haven't really started working on writing number yet.

Learning some basic addition.

Learning about money and the value of different coins. This ties in well with teaching her addition because she is learning simple things like 5 pennies= 1 nickle.

Still a very healthy little eater and typically has no aversion to eating her veggies. She does prefer eating them raw and loves going to my favorite salad spot for lunch after morning gymnastics.

Loves listening to music and enjoys playing piano and guitar with Daddy. We have the keys on our piano labeled so for about the past year she has been learning the notes.

Loves her "Best friend pup" and sleeps with him every night.

Very good at drawing and has taught herself to draw so many things that I did not think a three year old could even draw.

Going to gymnastics three days a week- she can do front rolls, tuck jumps, straddle jumps, and pikes all by herself and is even walking backwards on the beam, doing small jumps on the beam, and doing simple flips on the bars. She is currently working on cartwheels and simple back walkovers using the mat that is shaped like a block.

Fully potty trained- praise the Lord for that one!

Knows all about different types of food and can tell you which foods are healthy and which are unhealthy.