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Emmett enjoyed Kaylyn sitting on him, he thought it was funny. Actually he thinks anything silly we do is funny.

Enjoy the photo. I do... every-time I see it, I laugh.

mken

I love this shot of Emmett.

I took this photo last week. There's nothing more a boy hates then to be stuck inside on a rainy day. Although he seems to be at peace with it.

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Yes, now he can open up the refrigerator door.

Here he was caught in the act, eating grapes, one of his favorite fruits. He's been doing this for a while now. He doesn't seem to understand that he's wasting valuable energy keeping the door open - I guess that's just another thing to teach him.

He's really a chip of the old block. Daddy does it, why can't he?

mken

That is what it says on his new T-shirt from Cassandra.

That shirt... pretty much sums up Emmett. Not to say that he's trouble maker... it's that he's so curious about everything - that it seems he can find his way into troubled situations readily. I think that's normal for a toddler boy, right? Thought I would share this photo Kaylyn took of him and Lady yesterday evening. There's a lot of personality of him in this shot.

He truly is a joy to be with... really!

mken

Can you guess the secret ingredient?

Well, the result of blueberries and perches being ready in the same season is... Blueberry Peach Jam. YUMMY! Alright, I haven't tried it yet, but it sure was smelling good when Kaylyn was preparing it, plus the color of it looks amazing!

So has anyone figured out what the secret ingredient is yet? Well here's a couple of clues... it's colorless, odorless and tasteless. Nothing yet. OK, I'll give it to you, its... 'Air.' That's right, A. I. R., air. As you can see from the caned jars of jam, the jam is floating because it's very low in calories, we could make a fortune off of this recipe.

'So light, it floats' I think that might make a good tag line.

Nice job sweet heart!

mken

That's right, 40 pounds of blueberries!

Actually, we can't believe we picked that much either. I think Emmett ate at least 1/4 of a pound - mainly off the ground (nothing better then blueberries and sand, Yummy). We started off on the trip to 'Reenders Blueberry Farm' around 8:30 as Emmett clutched Bunny. Got there a little after 9:00, took a picture of Mom and Emmett and started to pick till about 10:30. Around 9:30 Emmett was hungry and started to snack on blueberries. He had quite a nice little set-up happening, a nice bucket stool, some water and a half of bucket of blueberries. What more could little boy want?

mken

Emmett's favorite toy... well... maybe just for today.

Kaylyn and Emmett went 'garage sale-ing' today. She found a play vacuum cleaner and some winter clothes for Emmett. When I came home from work today, he had his new fireman goulashes on the wrong feet - wanting to demonstrate how he vacuumed with the new vacuum cleaner. It was fun to see him with his boots on the wrong feet, vacuuming.

mken

No, we didn't go to the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. We were at our own house! Amazing!

There is a program on our Mac called 'Photo Booth' You sit in front of the Mac webcam, the program will then generate the aquarium effect in the background. Awesome right? Well maybe not that awesome - maybe... great. We sure had fun with it, look at our faces. Other effects that come with the program are Clouds, Earthrise, Eiffel Tower, Rollercoaster, Sunset and Yosemite.

Who needs a vacation when you can visit other places right on you computer. Right?

mken

We bought goulashes for Emmett this past Saturday.

He wasn't too sure of them at first, but after it rained on Sunday evening - I told him we could go outside and splash in the puddles... but we had to put his new boots on. I think this is what he heard...

'Rain, outside, spash, puddles.'

No toddler can say no to splashing in the water. Enjoy the picture.

mken

Emmett loves snack time, especially on daddy's chair.

A few weeks ago he started to climb up onto our dinning room chairs. This morning, he insisted that he had to eat on daddy's chair, rather then being buckled/tied into his own high chair (huh... I wonder why?). Here he is eating his grapes and cheese before going to church.

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Emmett seems to have a great fascination with the Mac we have.

Not only does he love to look at our desktop picture; two exotic clown fish that resemble 'Nemo' from the movie 'Finding Nemo'. He loves to climb up on the chair and play with the mouse and keyboard, he's probably imitating what mommy and daddy do. I think, he thinks, that it's just another one of his toys. His most favorite thing... looking at iPhoto to see all the pictures that we have taken on him.

Here's Emmett after his bath updating our social calender. Nice work buddy!

mken

This has to be the best investment we bought for Emmett since he was born. Kaylyn bought is from Target. He pushes that red stool around where-ever he needs to see what mom or dad are doing (like dishes) or needs to had some height for getting something off a shelf. We've got to watch out for our toes though, he's ran over them a couple of times already.

He does like helping us with the dishes... well most of the time... He mainly wants to play around in the soapy water and put the clean dried off dishes back into the dish water again. Hopefully he'll learn soon - He defiantly wants to be where the action is, as you can see from the photo with him in front of me doing dishes.

mken

On Friday, I decided to go with Kaylyn and Emmett to the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum. There exhibit was 'Aunt Daisy's Farm.' Children can pick apples, feed pretend animals, grow plants, gather eggs, and enjoy what it is like to live and work on a farm. Emmett had a great time, his most favorite activity was the sandbox, filled with tractors, dump trucks, bulldozers, shovels, sifters, etc, etc. I think he spent most of the time playing there. He also liked the Bubble Factory, Mirror Magic, Mom and Pop Store (equipped with a car) and the Big Kids Shredded Tire Play Area (this area had even bigger shovels, bigger dump trucks and bulldozers).

Here are the are some of the images we captured of him playing.

mken