Follower...

My precious little girl is growing up so much and developing this awesome little personality. She will do things and Will and I just look at each other with the look of "we are going to have our hands full with this one!" But we LOVE it! She is so much fun :).  Now that Emma is fully walking, in fact almost running, she is always on the go! I have been doing a lot around the house this past week (more on that in a few days...) and today I noticed that every step I took, those little feet were right behind me. I used to watch her crawl around and wonder what it would be like to have her walking with me everywhere I went. And I just love it that she loves me enough to stay right with me, is so curious to see what I'm doing and wants to be such a part of it! Not only is she following me around as fast as those little legs can take her but she is also following things that I am saying and doing and trying to do it herself.  Her new thing is "whoa!" Everything is whoa! It is so cute...we were riding in the car the other day and over and over she would say, "whoa, whoa, wwhhooaa!" And now I have noticed how much I actually say whoa myself! She has learned to fold her ams with this little sass to it, which right now is adorable but in a few years won't be so much :).  And we just can't figure out where she learned that!! If I open my mouth to put a bite of food in, brush our teeth , or yawn, she opens her mouth as wide as she can and if you even do it back once to her it becomes a game! And anytime I am brushing my teeth, she HAS to brush hers too. When I'm holding her and I pat her back, she pats mine right along with me.  Needless to say, my daughter is picking up on every little thing I say and do. I only hope that as the years go by I can always be someone in her life she strives to emulate.