fall is here!

A very fallish weekend here in Vermont. The air is crisp and cool and it feels great to bundle up in sweatshirts and blankets.
Emma continues to grow and change and amaze us every day. She has really taken to art lately. Though she still loves looking at books, she is happiest with a pad of paper and some crayons or markers and if you walk by she'll ask you to "sit" and "drrrrrraw???!!!" She loves when we draw something and then she scribbles over it, adding her personal touch. :)
At daycare, Anna (our babysitter) said that Em's favorite time of day is craft time and that she will sit and work diligently on whatever project they are doing. She certainly has artist blood on both sides of the family, so it will be fun to see if she continues to be so interested in it.
With gas prices so outrageous, we again spent the weekend close to home. Yesterday Emma visited a nearby deer park, and fed the trout and ducks at a duck pond. (Although it seemed she was more interested in feeding the bread to herself than the ducks and fish...at one point she began picking bread crumbs up off the ground and eating them... 'atta girl, Emma. )
We also spent some time, as Emma says, "hikin' " around our property. She loved this and kept saying, "fun, fun, fun." Mommy showed her how to tuck flowers behind her ears, and she decided to take this task on herself for the rest of the hike and was picking flowers and putting them IN her ears. She never seizes to crack us up, that's for sure.
We also enjoyed checking in on our pumpkin patch. Emma had a blast patting her pumpkins and counting them...which sounds something like this "4...6...9...2!"
Emma's favorite new word is, "Yep". She answers with this to any and every question, no matter what it is.... Emma, do you need a new diaper? YEP. Emma, what book are you reading? YEP. It's pretty funny how she says it with such affirmation, and it's a welcome change to the favorite word of the week a couple of weeks ago, when she answered, "NO!" to everything.