Elise has a very specific sense of fashion: to take the first items from each drawer and put them on. I've been trying to guide her, just a little, into wearing things that look a little nicer together but also believe she should be able to choose her own clothes so I'll say things like "I'm not sure those patterns will work together" and if she doesn't want to change, I don't make her. Today's randomly selected outfit is a brown skirt with multi coloured pastel flowers on it,...
I just posted a whole bunch of posts I found in some drafts that I never sent to the blog. I just got the timeline option from Facebook which I was glad for because for a while I was using FB to post the little fun things that happened with the girls and I thought they were lost - including posts about when Elise lost her first tooth. I hadn't recorded it anywhere else. There will be a bunch of blog posts coming up that will get our blog caught up with what it should have been in the...
Elise is two and a half today. She is growing up strong, beautiful and smart. We think we're pretty much in trouble. Her language is fantastic. She speaks like such a grown up little person - in full, grammatically correct sentences (well, mostly correct, anyway). But like all little kids she says some funny things as she goes about making daily observations. Here are some of my favourites: To Erin: I prefer to call you Daddy. To Grandpa "Grandpa, you're a nice man." To me...
I found this post amongst the drafts. I'm posting it even though its several years old because…well…why not. Elise is going to be three in a month so I thought I would post one last two-year old entry before I do my sappy birthday note. Some funny and cute things Elise says and does at age 2 *talks a mile a minute. Lately it's been about using your big eyes and ears to see if there's any scary animals and if you see any scary animals you have to hop away. (ref: Diego and the...