Elsie is a little girl. She is so much fun! She talks all day long! I love that she can communicate with us now! During April, Elsie's favorite thing to do was "take roll" she would always look around the room and name everyone that was in the room. So fun. She would say, "Where mommy? Right there. Where Daddy? Right there. Where Ewsee? Right here." She would say all of this without letting us answer :) She would do this ALL DAY LONG!! In the car she would say "Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom...." I say, "Yes, Elsie." She keeps saying "Mom. Mom..." then eventually will stop saying Mom and says, "Where mommy?" Me, "Right here." Elsie, "Right there." She does this the entire time we are in the car :) It is actually entertaining for awhile, but it eventually gets old :) I have started letting Elsie answer the questions "strangers" ask her. Like, "How old are you?" or "What's your name?" It is pretty funny. The other day my friend asked Elsie, "Elsie, do you want to come stay at my house?" I looked at Elsie waiting for her to answer and Elsie looked at her, then at me, then she said, "No thank you." It was so funny!! I try teaching her manners. Everyone loves a cute, polite little girl :)
Elsie would still rather drink milk than eat anything. Some days she will eat, but most days she picks at her food and then later wants milk. I haven't decided if it is worth the battle of "taking her off milk". I know she will continue to drink it, but right now it is replacing her meals. It is a battle I don't think I am ready to fight yet :) She does still like eggs, toast, cereal (fruit loops - "froo-floops"), fruit, chicken, fries, steak, potatoes, pasta these are her favorites, but even then, she is picky when she will eat them :) Oh, well. All she needs is one good meal a day and for her mother to remember that she won't let herself starve :).....right?
Elsie loves to dress up. Whether it is my clothes and shoes, her own clothes or Macy's dressups. I need to get her some of her own, I just haven't done it yet.
Elsie has quite the imagination when it comes to playing with her toys. I love hearing her play with them and mimick the things we say to her each day. She plays with her small toys all the time! She has a toy minivan she puts her toys in and out of all day! She is pretty creative.
Elsie is my little shadow, my "little buddy". I love it! She follows me around all day long.
Elsie has started to "not like the camera". Everytime I get out the camera, she runs from me or turns around or puts her face down, anything so I don't take a picture of her. It drives me crazy, but I did still manage to get a few cute ones in :) I can't wait for this phase to end :) I did realize that in 2011 I took over 7,000 pictures - that's over 500 pictures a month!!! Pretty sure most of them were all of this girl!
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| Playing dressups! I couldn't get her to look at the camera, so I told her to look at herself in the mirror :) |
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| She knows she's cute! |
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| "Sprinkles!!" |
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| We went to Sand Hollow for the evening with our friends and had dinner. It was a lot of fun. It took awhile for Elsie to get comfortable touching the sand, but she eventually did get dirty :) |
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| I tried piggy tails in Elsie's hair. It looked cute, but it was a lot harder to do and didn't look any cuter than it does the other way I style it :) Needless to say, this was the only day I did piggy tails :) |
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| "Jameez" |
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| Love her sweet face in this picture :) |
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| LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Macy came over early one morning. They played in their jammies, and ate breakfast - they both loved it!! |
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| I was trying to get Elsie to cuddle with me this afternoon, and she didn't want anything to do with me. Josh was already asleep and she laid on his arm and fell asleep :) |
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A cookie right after her nap :)
She still looks pretty tired :) |
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| Helping Daddy make pancakes! |
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| Eatin lunch :) |
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| Playing toys with Daddy |
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Having a corndog picnic.
Elsie LOVES her daddy!!
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| I love these two! Elsie has the best daddy ever!!! |
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Swim Lessons!
We did swim lessons for 2 weeks at the indoor pool. It was Mon-Thurs for 2 weeks. It was a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun. Elsie did swim lessons with 3 of our friends. She loved swimming everyday! She did really well and actually made some improvements. She already loved the water, but it taught her to blow out of her mouth and to not swallow the water, it also taught her to float on her back. She loved it!! It was $30 well spent! |
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A close-up of Elsie's curls
Me, "Elsie do you have curly hair or straight hair?"
Elsie, "Str-ate ha'ir." So funny!
Me, "No. You have curly hair."
Elsie, "Curly, curly, curly" ...giggle. Everytime :) |
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Elsie woke up one morning and asked for a popsicle for breakfast.
I figured...why not?
Not to mention the fact that her popsicle matches her shirt :) |
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| Waiting in line to ride the merry-go-round. |
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| YAY!!! |
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| She giggles the entire time she rides this :) |
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| Readin' her princess book |
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| At the Pine View soccer game |
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Elsie wants to be just like Macy and Olivia :)
....the Pine View High Soccer team mascots :) |
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All clean!
I love it right after Elsie gets out of the tub, because she loves to cuddle :) |
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| Elsie came to school with me...check out her art skills! |
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Eatin a hamburger ("San'wich")
...ok, so she just ate the tomato and the top of her bun :) |
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| I love her big blue eyes!!!! |
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A walk to the temple.
We did this on a Sunday afternoon and the next Sunday as we were driving to church and passed the temple, Elsie said, "Mom. Walk temple. Member?" She remembers a lot of things that surprise me. I LOVE her! I also love that we live so close to a temple. We are so blessed in so many ways!! |
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| Another trip to the splashpad :) |
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I love this outfit!
I finally got her to smile, but she is still moving, I can't have both
...her holding still AND smiling :) |
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| Eating pizza at Treyson's baseball game :) |
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"Truck" Elsie loves to get in ALL the firetrucks when we go visit Daddy!
If you ask Elsie where her daddy works, she says, "Figh.sher Sta.shun" |
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LOVE these two girls! Elsie LOVES to play with Macy!
They are so funny together! |
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I LOVE THIS GIRL!!!!!!
I took her to the bathroom to change her diaper during Sacrament Meeting one Sunday and I couldn't resist taking a few pictures of her...they all turned out SO CUTE!!! |
I don't think we could ever thank Amanda enough for blessing our lives! Every day, I look at Elsie and I realize what a blessing it is to be HER mom! I am the luckiest mom in the world! Thank you Amanda! We love every minute of parenting you have blessed our lives with!!!
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