Cute little Emma!

Yesterday was a really good day for Emma.  She was so good and we didn't have any problems the whole day.  (A rare thing lately)  Here are a couple of funny little things she did.

Yesterday, while Matthew was napping and I asked her if she wanted to read a book together.  She said she couldn't because she was being a doctor.  Then she told me I was sick and she was going to take care of me.  She told me I needed to lay down on the couch and take a nap.  I had to follow the doctors orders, so I did lay down on the couch.  Then she whispered that she would turn on the "star light" (the nightlight lamp that we turn on in her room) so that I wouldn't be scared.  Then she quietly tiptoed away.  After a bit, I started to doze, when all of a sudden, I felt something on my cheek and I jerked to consciousness.  I realized that Emma had kissed me on the cheek.  Lately when we put Emma to bed, she will ask us to check on her before we go to bed.  I go in every night and "check" on her and give her a kiss on the cheek.  Often times, the next morning, she will ask if I checked on her and I will tell her that I did and that I gave her a kiss on the cheek.  So, she had come back to check on me and gave me a little kiss on the cheek.  It was so sweet and she was taking such good care of me.  I think she is going to be a great little mother when she grows up.

One more fun little story:  As I started making dinner yesterday, Emma decided that she was a spider.  She started crawling around on the floor and saying things like "The spider is thirsty," or "the spider wants a toy."  She played like this for several minutes and then started talking about the "mommy spider," (me) the "baby spider" (Matthew) and the "daddy spider" (Daniel).  She was in this little mode of pretending when it was time to start dinner.  She wanted to say the prayer, and this is what she said:

"Heavenly Father, please bless the baby spider to be good.  And please bless the baby spider that he won't pull my hair. In the name of... oh and please bless the food, and please bless - in the name Jesus Christ, Amen."  (Lately she says "please bless" at the end of every prayer, but doesn't add anything to bless.  So that is not a typo at the end of the above prayer, that is how she said it.)

It was all I could do to keep from laughing right out loud, especially when, in the blessing on the food, she blessed the food as an afterthought.  Anyway, I thought it was pretty funny.