Happy Birthday Emma!

4 wow already! Such a change no longer a baby, no longer a toddler. A kid; a full fledged kid with opinions. Emma says she is no longer Emma Bean, that she is just Emma, and I get weepy inside. But what happened to loving the story about how mommy and daddy found a bean, and we decided to plant it. We gave the bean lots of love and water and sunshine and the bean began to grow. To mommy and daddy's amazement the bean started to grow into a little girl, and now if you look close enough you can see where the bean started to grow from Emma's toe. And that's why Emma is an Emma Bean... Hmm maybe we need to tell this story more often, I am not quite ready to give up on the Emma Bean.