Post-Pigtail Hair

Elizabeth wears pigtails to school every day now, but takes them out pretty soon after I pick her up.  Here's our post-pigtail hair.  A little bozo-the-clownish.

Children's Museum

On Saturday it was so hot we didn't know what to do! So we made an impromptu trip to the Dallas Children's Museum.  But first we pushed around our beverages at the house.  Elizabeth has taken to putting her sippy cups in the leg holes of her baby-doll stroller.  And she really likes to have two.  She'll push it all around the house. So usually a milk cup and a water cup.  I love how she just figured this game out by herself! Oh yeah. And she's letting me put pigtails in her hair!  Another giant thank you for daycare which got us here!

Memorial Day 2010

We had a fun Memorial Day weekend at the lake.  We swam with our cousins and ate Pa-paw's pancakes on the porch in our pajamas!

Backpacks and Purses

Now that Elizabeth is in the Toddler Room at her school she gets to carry a backpack and wear a uniform!  Well, they've been back-ordered on uniforms, so we haven't actually done that yet, but she takes her backpack to school!  Most days Daddy carries it, but one morning last week, Elizabeth decided she could carry it on her back.

And she LOVES purses.  I am making an effort not to encourage Elizabeth to look to the "girl" toys, but at least with purses she is all girl! Oh yeah, and grocery shopping - looks like she's fallen into that gender role as well. :o)

18 Months

It goes without saying, but how is our little baby an 18-month-old toddler???? We have seen so many changes in Miss E these last few months.  She has words! She will try and repeat a lot of what we say to her, but the coolest part is the words she has learned and uses them correctly on her own!  So just so we can keep track (since this is our baby book) here are her words at 18 months:

Dada
Mama - although she's starting to say "Mommy" instead
No
Yeah
Ta-too  (Thank you)
Uh-oh
All done
Bye Bye
Hi
Shoe
Ball
Bubbles
Milk
Oatmeal
Pa-Paw
Mimi
Jessi (our babysitter)
Down (for telling us she wants to go downstairs)
Step (the actual sound she makes when she is going down stairs)
Up (for telling us she wants to go upstairs)
Bath
Airplane (although I didn't realize until now, it turns out there are a lot of airplanes in the sky where we live - E finds them all for us! - this has also suggested to us that she has my eyesight rather than eric's - he can't see airplanes without his glasses)
More (she still does the sign for more when she says it)
Wash (when she wants to wash her hands - a favorite game now is to draw with marker on her hands and then ask to wash them)
Trash (she also loves to put things in the trash can)
Blue (although anytime you ask her what color something is she says "blue" - today on her sheet from school it said she was the first one of her friends during "circle time" to identify that something was blue)
Nose
Eyes
Sit
Nana (banana)
fish
apple
Andrew (her friend at school that used to bite her)
Desi and Jack - she knows her kitties' names!
blueberry


She also likes animal sounds - Moo, Baa, Shhh (snake), Rhaaa (Dinosaur) Duck-Duck (that's what a duck says), "eee eee" (doggie), t-t-t-t (squirel)

She knows body parts: eyes, nose, mouth, head, shoulders, knees, toes, fingers, belly, ears, tongue, teeth.

She can pick up her Desi kitty and carry her to another room.

She loves sitting on the potty.  This started at school so we went and purchased one.  So far she hasn't done anything in the potty, but she sure likes to sit there!

She loves reading books.  She surprised the heck out of us last weekend by finding a picture book and pointing out "shoe" "ball" and "apple".  We hadn't looked at that book in months and she'd never pointed out the pictures before.

She is so much fun right now!  We love our little girl!