Obsession with the dog and cat

After a long gap in writing, I'm posting a few posts about the last few months (and other things that are interesting to me at least). This post's topic is about how obsessed Emma is with the dog and cat.  

Emma LOVES Chloe the dog and Toby the cat to the point where I would call it an obsession. Emma is two years old and this obsession has been going on for about 9 months now. At least now, she is much better at petting than six months ago. Thank goodness Chloe is such a great dog around kids (and Toby just ignores her).

Emma's first word was dog. The first thing Emma does in the morning is look for the dog and cat. Her favorite chore is to "feed" the dog and every time she sees that the bowl is empty she looks at me and does her sign for more or now she says "mo mo". She also tells me that Chloe needs more food even when there is still food in the bowl. Chloe is going to gain a lot of weight.  Emma is very good about making sure Chloe has a bone or her favorite stuffed green dog, regardless of whether Chloe wants it or not. She even likes to play "chase" in the park with Chloe 

Her word for dog is whoa whoa and for cat it is meow. She finally within the last couple weeks started being able to say Chloe and Toby, but still prefers to call them by the sound they make most of the time.

It looks we have an animal lover!

Playing in the dog crate