First Recital!

Ok, so Eliza started dance in February and had her first recital 3 months later on the big stage! Very, very exciting. She also made three new friends - Thalia, Ava, and Addison. Eliza was just too cute for words on the stage, and even though it was only a quick 3 minutes of a performance, it was a proud moment for Mommy and Daddy. She stumbled once and almost fell over, but overall did her dance moves along with the other girls. Here are some pictures. The ones of her on the stage are from the rehearsal (we weren't allowed to take pictures during the actual recital).

Easter Fun!

Today Audrey, Aidan, and Jack (and new baby Johnny!) came over for some cookie decorating, egg dying, and a little egg hunt. We managed to get all three of these events, plus lunch, completed without too much chaos or tears! The kids had a lot of fun.

Yo Gabba Gabba!

Tonight after giving Eliza her bath, she started talking about the show "Yo Gabba Gabba" and the show characters. If you've yet to see this "special" show, you're really missing out. I started to ask her the colors of each character and when I asked her what color "Brobee" was, she said "gween". I told her that "No, Brobee is red Eliza." She kept telling me, "No Mommy, Brobee is GWEEN! His wegs are gween, his belly is gween, his head is gween, he is gween Mommy!" So I grabbed the book from her shelf, and needless to say, I was soooo wrong. I thought Brobee was Muno, who is in fact, red. 2.5 year olds really know their tv shows apparently!

Two and a Half!

It's been awhile since I've updated and I am really hoping I can try to be more consistent with this! So I've missed a few months and Eliza is now 2.5 She is a fun, sweet, and wild little toddler. She is taking dance classes now and has her first recital in May. We are very excited about her three minutes of fame on the stage. Let's hope she follows the directions. Lately she has not been given a sticker at the end of class for not sitting on her x or being too silly!

Her current loves right now include books, Dora, m&m's, being outside, bread, coloring (in the lines!), her mommy and daddy, and yes, of course, the binky. Let's not even get started about when that is going to disappear. Here are some pictures from the past few months!

Halloween

This is very late to be posting Halloween pictures, but I am not that great about posting to this blog anymore since the Facebook world! And my mom is the only one NOT on Facebook that would like to see pictures, so these are more for her. We took Eliza out to a few houses w/ her friend Adam and she thought she ran the show. She strutted her "stuff" (or, stinger) around the streets yelling at older boys. "Boys, come walk with me, come hold my hand boys!". It was pretty funny, but scary at the same time!

She's two!

Pumpkin Patch!

We met up with Audrey, Jen, and John to go to the pumpkin patch again this year. Last year Eliza was only one but loved it. Of course she loved it even more this year. Here's a flashback from our time there last year.


Here are some pictures from today!