Two!

Emeline is 2!  And what a joy she is.  She is full of life and always teaching us to pay attention to the details of life around us.  During this difficult season of losing my mother, she has been my connection to God's love.

Emeline continues to run, jump, and climb, getting more agile every day.  And despite her very head strong personality, she has learned to stay closer to mommy and daddy.  I am amazed at how much she understands, now following more complicated directions...when she feels like listening of course.  

She is a talker...  It sounds like a stream of consciousness coming from her little mouth, constantly narrating everything happening around her.  Car rides sound like, "Mommy drives..coming house...bye bye friends...more wawa...big truck..." or anything else passing through her mind.  She also loves to give us directions and is developing the penchant for having things just a certain way.  Emeline has also started to sing along more to songs she hears.  Our recent road trip was a fun experience listening to her renditions of driving music we like such as, Fountains of Wayne, as well as some worship songs.  I love hearing from the back seat "alooya..I sing" for "Halleluja, Halleluja, your love makes me sing".  She also had fun trying to sing Happy Birthday for the first time.

Given the tumulutousness of life latley, we didn't have time to have a birthday party for Emeline, but hopefully we can celebrate more with friends and family later.  But she had a blast dancing around in her birthday dress, eating some birthday strawberry short cake, and opening a few gifts.  Without further ado, here are way too many pictures of our Sweet Emeline, and a video of her and her birthday cake.