Lately, I have started to "file" memories into my mind that, to me, spell out my daughter. I want to share just a few.....
1) Shortly I will post a video of her doing interpretive dance with her Aunt Naomi to a Josh Groban Song. My daughter loves to dance! She has memorized all the "dance moves" on the Wiggles and even Uncle Steve's Robert Munsch video. She loves to act/dance to everything! She sings along as she dances. It is such a serious thing to her. She puts everything into it. :) Yesterday, at our stake conference, we were sitting on the front row. (No other seats were available and we thought the extra room to move would be good. Yeah, never again.) During the opening hymn, she started to sing and dance. She was holding her Elmo stuffie and singing. They twirlled, dipped, jumped and just all around got into the music. I realized that the mission president and his wife were grinning at her and half the stake choir was watching too. But nothing would deter her until the music was done. I had to laugh. Even in stores she has to stop at every speaker that is playing music to dance. I've learned to stop and just watch. I realize that soon I will not get to enjoy these moments.
2) Which leads me to her second passion, singing. :) I'm sure I've mentioned before that, in church, she sings with all her heart. Sometimes getting so carried away that she forgets to stop with the music. At the adult session of stake conference, before it started, she walked up to the front stand. She saw a travelling microphone laying next to the pulpit. She gave me her sly grin, crinkled her nose and grabbed it. It wasn't plugged in and so I let her. She put it up to her mouth and started to sing. Emily would put the microphone up to my mouth to have me start a song. And then she would take it back to finish it. People soon came up to watch. Here are a few examples:
Tamara - "I am a child of God, and he has sent me here..." Emily - "Here, here, Jesus, baby, here, here, mommy, daddy, Papa ..."
Tamara - "I love you Emily, oh yes I do, I love you Emily, and I'll be true...." Emily - "love Emmy, love mommy, love papa, yes, love daddy, yes love mama (grandma), love Elmo..."
Tamara - "If you're happy and you know it jump around (or clap)....." Emily - "happy, happy, clap, happy, happy, bounce, happy, happy, happy...."
And all the while she is dancing at the same time......... (She wasn't so happy that she had to stop when everyone started coming up to the stand.)
3) The new expressions everyday. Yesterday, I was coming up the stairs and she was standing at the top. Emily said, "Comin' 'ere, comin' 'ere, mommy. Comin' comin'." (Also picture her bent at the waist gesturing to me to come.) When I got to the top, she clapped and said, "Good girl, mommy. Comin' 'ere." Or this morning she found my bag of Kernals popcorn which was next to my bed. She starts marching (and I mean marching) around the room saying, "Emmy need popk (which sounds like /pop/ /k/), Emmy need popk."
Needless to say, as much aggrevation that she gives me, I love her dearly. She loves me and lets me know daily with hugs and kisses. How could life be any better?!
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Love it. Cassie is a singer but not much into the dancing. Glad you can sit back and just enjoy it took me till my third to be better at that.
Emmy has such a cute little personality! She sounds a lot like Kenlee. She loves to dance and sing to every song too. I love it. I am also trying to enjoy these little moments more too. Life gets so busy with so many things we think need to get done, we really can miss out on so much! This time of our lives is trying, but so much more fun! Our kids are at such a fun age.
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