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!

Cute Conversations

Eliza keeps us laughing all day long (aside from her daily multiple tantrums of course). We are always wondering where she comes up with some things, and how she remembers such random stuff. Here are a few favorites from recent days. Ok, maybe they won't sound as cute to you or as funny, but if you heard her voice and expression, you'd probably laugh. :)

Daddy took Eliza for a drive the other day and stopped to get himself a coffee. Eliza chimes in from the back, "Daddy, you going to get Mommy a coffee tooooooo?"

On the way home from work one day I got Eliza one munchkin at Dunkin Donuts (it's her once in a while treat if I am getting an afternoon coffee!). When she was finished, she wanted more of course. I told her that there was only one in the bag, so she proceeded to cry. Then I said, "It's a special treat sometimes, because Mommy loves you!", "You love Mommy, too!" Of course she said "No!" so I pretended to fake cry for a minute until she yelled "No, it's my turn to cwy Mommy! I'm cwying this time!".

She loves singing to any pop song on the radio and if I start singing w/ her (to Rihanna's "Take a Bow" for example), she'll tell me she doesn't want me to sing, she's the one that is going to sing. Her favorite part is "go on and take a bow...." She could truly do karaoke to that song at 2 years old.

During dinner last week I was asking Eliza what she did at daycare. Apparently I was chewing while asking because she told me to "Chew your food foowst mommy, then you can talk!"

Another day on the way home from work she kept saying "I want to see your business Mommy, pweeeeeeeese! Can I see your business?" I kept repeating her by asking "my business? Is that what you are saying Eliza, business?" and she would say yes. I had no idea what she was talking about but she was getting frustrated and kept asking over and over to look at my business. I was dying laughing, but clueless as to what she meant. Finally I turned my head and saw my school bag on the floor, and that is what she was pointing to. I asked her if that was my "business" in the bag and she said yes. Later that night Andy told me that she tried to grab my bag one day at home and Andy moved it and said it was mommy's bag for school work, just like daddy's business bag.

Hmm, I just realized that almost all of these conversations took place while in the car. I promise we are not always driving.

Apple Picking, Take 1

We took Eliza apple picking today and I am sure it will be the first of a few different trips w/ friends. Today it was just the three of us though. She loved running around w/ the other kids (especially boys) and grabbing apples. Her favorites were the rotten ones already on the ground. She also got to see the animals at the farm and pick a pumpkin.