What Does a Car Say?

Some may wonder why I post so many videos. Here are three reasons why. 1) My mom loves it when I post videos so she can see how Eliza is growing. 2) It is a good way to record what is going on in our lives. So it is kind of like a journal entry. And 3) sometimes she is just too cute to capture with a picture so I have more videos than I do pictures.

And so, here is another video from today.

This came about when I heard some funny noises in the bathroom. I don't normally have the door open to the bathroom, simply because there are too many things that Eliza can get into that I don't want her to. So when I heard funny noises I became a little concerned. I peeked in and I found her driving the only car she has all over every surface while making "car" noises. I have no idea where she got this from, but it was so cute, I couldn't pass it up.

Shoots and Ladders

Eliza loves the park! We are so blessed to have a park just behind our apartment. It is a great place to meet new people and for Eliza to socialize with other kids. I was very pleased the other day when she shared her ball with an older girl and they started to play pass back and forth. It was so sweet to watch the two girls playing together.
One thing she absolutely loves is the slide. She is still not confident to go down on her bottom since she hit her head trying that one too many times. But that doesn't stop her from going down anyway.

Peanut, Peanut Butter and Jelly!

Today Eliza wanted peanut butter, and she knew just how to get it.

Helping Eliza

She has turned into such a big girl over the past couple of weeks. Very rarely does she actually ask for help. She LOVES to try to get into her car seat all by her self, even though it now takes over 5 minutes. It's so cute though, and it gives her a chance to grow. She loves to help push the grocery cart. Every time I go to the store I get at least 2 comments on what a good helper she is.

This morning she helped:
Ryan shave
me make pancakes
set the table (her dishes)
take the milk to the table
clear her dishes
take the milk to the fridge...then back to the table where I ended up taking it to the fridge.
said "bubbles" which in essence means she wants to help with the dishes.



She is a good helper and I am excited to see what new and fun things she will want to help with.

More proof

When we went to Eliza's 15 month check up the doctor mentioned how she would start to move furniture around and rearrange it to get to what she wanted. At that point in time she could move small, children's furniture, but nothing more. I didn't realize how soon it would be that she could move our kitchen chairs.

She has also become completely OBSESSED with bubbles, whether they are bubbles from the bath, kitchen sink, boiling water or bubbles that you blow. She loves them. She has lately to taken to saying bubbles when she is upset in order to calm herself down. It is rather funny.

Because she loves bubbles so much I find that it is very easy to entertain her while I do dishes. I just plop her up on a chair beside me and she plays while I wash. However today, she decided to do the dishes by herself. She moved the chair all the way across the room to the sink, crawled up to the sink and proceeded to "do the dishes." She ended up breaking a bowl and cut two of her fingers. Not badly, thank goodness.

She also had a cut thumb from finding mommy's razor in the bath tub this morning. I'm beginning to wonder if I will be able to survive being a parent of a toddler. I know she will, I just might go insane in the process.

Toddlers Climb EVERYTHING!!

Here is proof that Eliza is officially a toddler.

I was reorganizing some boxes of baby clothes and school stuff when Eliza discovered, to her immense enjoyment, that she could crawl up on the boxes and they became perfect seats. I decided to be a nice mom and build her some stairs that were safe to climb up. She LOVED it! When I finally put all the boxes away, she started crying. Poor girl. I'm sure she'll find something new to crawl onto tomorrow.

Our Growing Girls!!!

That's right...girls! It looks like Eliza will be a big sister to a little sister! We are very excited for this precious new princess to join our family. Everything looks great in the ultrasound and the doctor says our girl is growing and developing really well.

On another note, Eliza is learning new things to do and new words to say everyday. It is really fun how interactive she has become. Here is her latest and greatest.




She learned this just by me singing the song a couple of times. I am always impressed by how fast she catches on to new things.