Dec 30, 2008

I'm just going to post all of these pictures and explain a bit about them. There are a ton!

Chiara got a new beanbag chair for Christmas, so she gave her old chair to Eliza. She loves it! Thanks guys. :)



Nicole got Eliza this Doll/Fairy for Christmas and she won't stop hugging and kissing it. Here she's hugging it while looking at her reflection in the oven.


This is just a cute pic of Eliza relaxing on the couch!


On Sunday we went to McDonald's in Cove to meet Crissy and Harley! It was fun. Nicole came too and brought Soren, Bella, and Chiara.

This is what Eliza wore. She looked like a little bumblebee. I couldn't get her to put that dirty tshirt down!


We arrived first and Eliza waited patiently for everyone else to come!


Soren came and they played "slap the table" for awhile.


Not quite sure what they were coming up with here, but it looks cute as hell!


Crissy and Harley showed up!! Look at her cute pigtails :)


Group pic!



Today we went to the park - all of us again.

First we went to the duck pond, where the kids had more fun feeding themselves the duck treats than feeding the ducks!


Eliza liked the bread the best!! Lol


Harley likes to share!


There was a group from the YMCA there who kindly shared their balls with the girls. Soren wasn't interested. At least, I don't have any pics of him with the balls!




A cute pic of Bella and Soren:


Just some cute pics of Eliza wandering around the park:









The slide. Eliza does not like the slide. At all. I didn't get any pictures of her on it because the entire time she screamed. Lol!
She does like watching people slide, and she also liked sitting on the stairs.
Waiting for Soren to come down......


Sitting on the stairs with Bella...


Sitting at the bottom of the slide, probably very mad at mommy for making her go down it.


At one point, she was very angry about something.. this went on for awhile.



And then she crawled up into Nicole's lap with Soren. Nicole had the good snacks, I guess!!


At the end of the day, I barely got her in the car and she fell asleep!

Dec 22, 2008

Hello.

We've been spending time with Nicole and Soren lately. Here are some pictures of Eliza from the past few days!

She has decided that it's fun to pull her shirt up over her head and run around. I think she can see through the shirt because she didn't run into anything.






She has also been doing very well using her fork and spoon to eat!!! This is meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and green beans.

And this was oatmeal for breakfast!



Last night (Sunday) we went to Nicole's to make gingerbread houses. I was a little nervous about this, because Soren seems to be much neater about things like this. I put together the house while Eliza ate broken pieces of graham cracker. After I had it all together, I put some candies on it and Eliza had fun with the sprinkle shakers. Soren's seemed to get more sprinkles and candies ON his house. Eliza did get a lot on the house, but also a lot on the plate, table, chair, and floor. Oops.





Well, that's about it. Here's a picture of Eliza wearing my shoes around the house. She likes them a lot!!

Dec 12, 2008

After we dropped my parents off at the bus station this morning, we went back to the house to wait for the guy to come change the locks on the doors. He showed up around 11:15. He left around 11:30. The lady also called about the car mirror, and we were off to pick it up. It was during prime lunch traffic, so we didn't get there until almost noon. She was starting to doze off in the car on the way back, so after giving her random things out of the car to keep her awake, I resorted to pulling her shoes off so that she could spend a few minutes taking her socks off. This worked pretty well, actually, and she stayed awake the rest of the ride. We were going to go shopping after I picked up the part, but I decided since she was so tired we'd just go home and she could nap. Well, she didn't want to nap, and she stayed up until nearly 2:30.

After she finally fell asleep, I put the mirror on, and then cleaned up around the house and tried to do more work putting things away. I called Time Warner and got the wireless fixed (the guy never hooked it up) and I talked to Tommy a bit from the kitchen.

Marc and Charlotte came over around 5 as we were just sitting down to eat our fancy dinner of hot dogs and mac n cheese. Charlotte went to play and Marc had some dinner with us. Luckily I made a bunch!

Charlotte refused to take her coat off for awhile and didn't really seem interested in playing with Eliza at all at first. After awhile she warmed up and they were having fun together. I gave Marc advice about women and he played with the girls while I did dishes. Charlotte brought over her DVD of Miss Spider (which Eliza loves) and they watched that. Charlotte actually watched it though, and Eliza mostly tried to get her attention.

Here are some pictures:

Charlotte taking pictures of me with the fake camera while I take pictures of her and Eliza.

This is pretty much the same picture as above but Eliza's face is too funny.

Eliza making her cheesy face for the camera like always.

Eliza showing Charlotte how to put the rings together.

Around 7, Charlotte decided she was hungry so I made her a plate, and then Eliza wanted some too, so I made her some too. She didn't eat very well earlier because she wanted to play with Charlotte.

After Marc and Char left, the floor was covered in crumbs and stuff, so I started to sweep. Eliza kept stealing the broom so eventually I put her back in her high chair so I could do a quick sweep without her trying to help. :)

I'm going to bed now. Goodnight! :)