Sunday, April 18, 2010

My cute Elise

Elise is getting to be so big and has learned so much lately! She knows a handful of letters and recognizes them when she sees them (A, B for baby, D, E, F, I, L, M, N for nice, O, P, S, T, Z), has expanded her animal sound repertoire, and improved her vocabulary. She has added many words including: Daddy (she has JUST started to call James daddy--previously anyone who took care of her was mommy), house, wa-wa (water), baby, sorry, ta-du (thank you), pre-pease (pretty please), ha dog (hot dog), up, out, owie, waffle, eh-mo (Elmo), fix, ba-baa (Martha, from Martha Speaks), Why (Super Why), nice, none, and many more. It seems like she surprises us with a new word every day. It makes it a lot of fun.

She still is quite mischievous at times and always looking for fun. As you can see from the next picture, she attacked James and covered him (and herself!) with stickers as he was trying to quietly read a book. She was so pleased with herself and had such a lot of fun!


Next, is a video of Elise playing ball with Daddy outside in our backyard. I love her laugh!

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Easter 2010

Easter is always wonderful. This year General Conference was the same weekend and we had gorgeous weather here. It made for a wonderful weekend. Elise loved the egg hunt in the backyard, dyeing eggs at the kitchen table, and the dress and purse that Grandma sent from Utah (including the bag of M&M's hidden in the purse from Grandpa!) and she twirled and twirled in it. We watched the first Sunday session of General Conference at the church, but Elise fell asleep on the way there and slept through the whole session. She didn't wake up until we were leaving the building and looked confused as to why we would leave right after we got there.

Elise showing off one of her eggs she found in our backyard...


Elise dyeing her eggs...she had a LOT of fun!


Elise wearing her Easter dress in our backyard with Daddy.

The video shows Elise on our little egg hunt...