Oh Yuck!

So... Saturday evening a bunch of us went out to Mongolian BBQ for dinner. At one point during the meal Emelia turned to me & told me she had to go potty. So, off we go to the potty. As we're walking there I reminded her not to touch anything because it was "dirty." Well, to make a long story short, I look over at Emelia as I'm getting ready to unlock the door and see her standing in front of the wall with her arms straight down at her side, face about a 1/2 inch away and her tongue sliding up the wall! HELLO!!!! I hollar out, "What in the world are you doing?!" As she turns around her tongue is hanging out of her mouth and she say "Oh Yuck!" As I continue to try to get past my upset stomach at this point, I ask her if she's allowed to lick the walls at home? Her respones is "No." (Ok, at least THAT stuck!) So I proceed to ask her why then did she think she was allowed to lick the wall in a public bathroom? To which she replied "I not no." As we walk back to the table I'm trying to figure out how in the world I can clean her mouth...I can't use anti-bacterial wash, I don't have a toothbrush, well it looks like we're gonna have to see what happens.

Somthing sweet

So, every night before Emelia goes to sleep she asks me to lay in bed with her so we can "talk." Just about every conversation we have is her talking about how she can't go underwater in the pool because that "scares mommy." (That's another story about swimming lessons.) Also quite often she wants to hear her story about how mama looked and looked for her and finally found her Emelia in Ukraine. Well, the other night we were talking about her story and we got to the part where I told her how mommy looked all over Ukraine and she piped in and said "mommy come to my-kraine" I looked at her and said "What?" She said "Mommy come to my-kraine to find Emelia!" I started laughing so hard. I said "yes, I did come to your-kraine!" I guess she's correct in a way. Being born and raise in Ukraine for the first 2.5 years of her life does make it "her-kraine"

Still alive!

Ok, so much for updating this more often! I realized that over the holidays I completely let this go! Sorry about that!
Backing things up a bit...Thanksgiving was a nice time. Emelia and I headed down to VA to visit with Amy, Jimmy & the kids. Emelia & Owen had a WONDERFUL time together. It's so fun watching the two of them together. Even though they only see eachother a few times a year they just click. So, we spent the week down there and enjoyed our time. Next came Christmas. Now THAT was a fun time! Emelia really got into the holiday spirit. Santa, mommy & anyone else who would listen was told the only thing she really wanted was a dinosauer, thanks to Owen. Santa did a double take when she said that. Here she is all dressed in her "pretty" dress sitting on Santa's lap and when asked she told him! He looked at me with a question mark on his face. But Santa regrouped & did indeed bring her the favorite gift!

Today she went to work with me. Had quite a few clients stop in and she was the welcoming commitee! Made for both a fun and long day! Some who was supposed to take a nap didn't. I kept hearing from the back room..."Mommy, all done resting" That went on for about 1.5 hours. Finally I gave in & had her sit down and watch Little Mermaid on the portable DVD player I brought.

I can't believe she's going to be 4 in March! Time really is flying! Her teacher said yeaterday that she's finally coming out of her shell and talking non-stop at school and interacting with the other kids. When her teacher told her a few months back that she really didn't talk at school, I asked her if we were talking about Emelia. She trys to talk 24/7. Looking forward to her birthday & getting to have some time with her outside in the warmer weather!