A Joy

My cute little niece Emilie is such a joy. I kept her over the weekend and we had so much fun together. She seemed to find joy in the simplest things. In addition to playing in a tutu (see pictures below) I watched her squeal with delight as 2 stray or lost puppies wandered up to our house. She was thrilled with the puppies and would pet and love on them. I was surprised but they seemed to love her just as much as she loved them. Here she is all dirty faced after playing with the puppies

Everynow and then she would tell me, "let's pray" and here's a shot of her doing just that. I couldn't understand a lot of what she was praying other than "pray to God, pray to God", and something about mommie but I'm sure the one she was directing her prayer to understood just fine:)

I decided to make a peach pie and a bumbleberry pie on Sunday and of course EM had to help me. When I finished making the crust she contined to work on her pie. You can see the salsa in the background, yes you guessed it, Em had to help me make that too. She thought it was so much fun to lay each tomato over on the cutting board after I peeled it. She would anxiously say, "can I do it", "can I do it" as I peeled each tomato.

She loved sampling the blackberries and as you can tell she must have even tried the flour :) She was and is such a joy! Thank you Emilie, for a great weekend.