Baking Cookies

Papa and Noni sent us a cookie mix in the mail. Here we are getting ready.













Emma loved shaping the cookies into "pancakes."






Thanks guys!

Halloween

Halloween! Here's our little butterfly.














We went trick-or-treating with Emma's friend Carter who was spiderman!

Random Emma quote for the day:

"In Africa they have blue balloons."

Hmmm...okay.

Emma playing with her baby doll, Yaya.

I thought this was a cute picture. Emma, Noah, and William are all greeting Tim home from work.




Emma's hair is long enough for pigtails (which she loves), but the curls make them look like Princess Leah buns.












Having fun painting.







This was the face Emma gave me when I asked her to smile.

I'll get some pictures posted in a bit, but I thought I'd share this conversation until then.

Emma: My smelling you Mommy (as she's sniffing me).
Me: What do I smell like?
Emma: Goose poop.

Nice.

Another so endearing Emma story... A couple of evenings ago Emma was "reading" out loud a card I got in the mail. She said, "Dear God. In my heart and in my soul." I, being quite dumbfounded and moved that something like that could come out of her mouth, teared up and said, "Emma! Where did you learn that?" She responded, "Hmmm...Bethlehem." No truer words were ever spoken. And then, yesterday during church I was holding her during the one of the worship songs when Em raised one of her little hands to the ceiling, spreading her fingers. She looked at me and smiled, then looked at a woman in the row in front of us. This woman was singing her heart out, raising her hand to Jesus. Monkey see, monkey do. Or should I say worshiper see, worshiper do. :)