Love

Emily is such a lover. She is always the best at giving a lot of hugs & kisses. This love does extend beyond family affection I am afraid. She has always crushed on boys, even from an early age. Sitters, family friends, even a new uncle-in-law for a while there. I am amazed at the confidence she has around them.

Last week at Josh's ball game, Emily was chasing around 2 babies, trying to keeping them out of trouble. Most of the older kids at the game happened to be boys. A group of them ranging in ages from 8-10, palled around trying to entertain them selves. Once when the group was close enough to our chairs, Em, who I remind you is six, hoisted a baby on her hip and walked right over to them to chat. She did it in such a way that it seemed she'd know the boys forever & was comfortable & belonged there. I'm not sure how they felt, but I was impressed with her confidence and bravery and yet horrified. What will I do with a girl who loves boys so much?! And we haven't even thrown hormones into the mix yet.

If you choose to continue reading- Please know that you are now sworn to secrecy & not allowed to tease Emily about the following. I am hoping that by not making a deal of her crush, that it will be that- not a big deal. Her latest & greatest crush now is Bob. Okay, his name is not Bob, but for to protect the innocent it's Bob. He is a young man we see often. Maybe it was his talents that inspired her, maybe his bow tie. I'm not sure, but she is smitten. She smiles a certain "new" smile when she leaves her lessons. Her latest crush episode was Sunday. When she saw Bob passing the sacrament I heard her whisper to me "I hope my Bobb- y comes to our row." MY Bobb-y?!!!! Yikes, I wanted to laugh and hurl all at the same time. And indeed, he did come to our row, followed by Emily's not so reverent hellos and attempts at conversation. We then had a nice discussion on reverence & how we can help the boys using their priesthood stay reverent too. Needless to say, her sweet feelings are so cute now, but I sincerely dread those upcoming teenage years.

Derby, Dirt & Deoderant

Josh has been a busy boy. He had a ton of fun at Pinewood Derby last week. Dan & Josh learned a lot & Josh did a fabulous job on his car. He made it every step of the way too. He sanded it, painted, & he even detailed the car! It was dubbed "The Wedge II" after Dan's derby winner in his scouting days with the original "The Wedge." Josh's car did really well in the beginning before all the graphite wore off. He placed about 4th in the Wolf pack & won an award for good Sportsman ship. On one of his races his car did a wheely and consequently came in dead last. Looking at his face you'd never know. He was laughing and was so impressed that his car did the coolest wheely ever. What a kid!


Dirt, well, that's how we all felt after sweating out every Saturday on the baseball fields with Josh. He had a great season with an amazing team. Below is a picture of Josh getting the game ball a couple weeks ago. He got his first hit and score that game. Kid-pitch sure makes for a much different game that Coach-pitch. Josh learned this year, that he makes a pretty great catcher too. Go #30!



And the deoderant. It was kind of in consequence of playing ball. All that heat and sweat made me realize that his time was due. So Dad gave him a quick lesson on how to slather the smelly stuff on. I loved these pictures. He thought it was weird he had to wear it occasionally now, but had fun in the moment.



I couldn't come up with another "D" word, but here is Josh at his school program. It was all very patriotic & Josh was great. He is quite the singer, though he might not admit that. This is Grandma Hilton, Josh & Emily afterward.