Our little flower

Emma loves to dress up, so thanks to Target's $1 bins for these cute dress-up things. She's at such a great age - that I love anyway. And it's easy to enjoy her very laid-back happy personality. She's rarely angry - although she has started to express her will about things she can't have. She still loves to be the center of attention and to make us all laugh.

She is finally learning to talk, and it makes me laugh when she changes the way she says something. So far she can say words like "eye", "no", "bubble", "birdy", "baby", "what", and others I'm sure. She also says, "mmhmm" for yes right now.

There's also a picture here of Emma with Jonathan Zuniga, her "partner in crime". He's a couple months older than she is, and they take care of each other at babysitting, giving hugs and sharing toys. It's very cute. so enjoy our cutie!

A sad day.

I am feeling very sad about this still. Our dog contracted parvo virus and died Wednesday night. Apparently it can live in the soil or in rodents. So if he ate a mouse..... He was very sick Wednesday morning and some friends who had nursed their dogs through parvo gave us websites, medicine, etc. I knew we could not afford the thousands of dollars that vet visits for parvo would cost. So I diligently gave him his medicine and pedialyte hourly on Wednesday till bedtime. But during the night he took a turn for the worse.....

So Hines is buried with many chickens and bunnies and who knows what else in our backyard.

Sad days...