Emmett gets garage sale presents & loves dancing, soap & talking

GARAGE SALE GIFTS: On Saturday morning, I woke up super early and went with my parents to garage sales. In addition to getting some great house stuff, I also got Emmett several cars, 3 strange books (one of which was a truck book) and a gigantic bagful of cute clothes (Old Navy, Gap etc.) for $3. When I came back, Emmmett was looking through each bag with complete wonder in his eyes. He was absolutely fascinated to see what I had for him. One of the cars was like a Dukes of Hazard kind of car, that lights up and plays this strange country song when you push one of the buttons on the top. (pictured)

WEEKEND: Saturday night, we went to a wedding, and on Sunday Chris was here and we spent the day inside relaxing. Emmett spent most of the day with Mike.

HIDE AND SEEK & DANCING: Yesterday, Emmett and I spent the morning playing. Mostly hide-and-seek, where Emmett hides in one of his "spots" and I "accidentally" trip over him while looking. His current spots are 1. In the closets 2. Under the table 3. Behind the rocking chair (his favorite). I also asked him if he wanted to dance, and we went in the kitchen and danced for about 20 minutes to an old Ani DiFranco album (Plastic Castles) that's kind of danceable. He loves to spin. Ana came over and played with him for a little beore she went to work.

ANA & KYLE PREFORMANCE: When he woke up from his nap, he was greeted by Ana and Kyle who were full of energy and excitement, doing full songs and dances for him. He was so excited. We went over to my parents and Emmett literally found this gigantic firetruck they have in the garage and wanted to play with it. The best thing that happened was that I wanted him to stay in the living room, and he obeyed me. I said "Emmett, stop. Come back in here with Mommy". And he did. He also put away all of his toys when I asked him to. We played inside for awhile and then played in the yard on his swing (which turned into another "Hide-and-seek game", where I would hide and then bolt out to push his swing.

SORTING & SOAP:Mike came home and Emmett ran over to him and then followed me back inside so I could make dinner. He is very into "sorting". He went through the tuperware cabinet and stacked all the plastic cups -- and then found more in the pantry which he added to his pile. Then he put them all away.
After dinner, he was washing his hands with foam soap and then decided to rub it all into his hair. We put him to bed and he went obediantly.

NEW OBSERVATIONS:
•How much he loves to talk. He chatters away constantly.
• His unwavering interst in cars. It's incredible just how interested in cars he is.
• How meticulous he is with sorting or examining something.
• When watching TV, he cannot hear you if you ask him a question -- he's so absorbed.
• His favorite thing (even more than cars) is books. He can't get enough and drags them throughout the house asking us to read them.
• His reaction to Asriel. Part love and part fear. He'll kind of whine when he sees her but wants to headbutt her.
• That he enjoys dancing as much as he does.
• How he can recognize drawings and other things as objects. (ie. He sees fish-shaped soap and says "Fish" or a drawing of a car and says "Car". From what I read, this is a sign of intelligence.