Potty Updates

No potty yesterday, but peepees today!!! Yay! (She's getting big girl underwear for her birthday!)


Also, today Elliot was playing with her cookie cutters (shape colors), and she held up the letter Y by the bottom stem. She said, "Look Mommy, a V!" Not bad since she was covering up the bottom. She can also read N and U and J and the numbers 4 and 7 by sight.

She sings the alphabet song if you help her get to G. If you don't, she sings, "A B C D, Won't you sing at me?" Otherwise, if you do help her, she sings, "A B C D E F G, H I J K L M and P. Q R S, T and V, W X Y and Z. Now won't you sing at me?"

Three days in a row!

That's right! She's done it again!!!

We're shooting for day four today! Yaay!!!!

I'm Going to Be 2!!!

To follow in last year's footsteps, we made birthday invitations for Elliot's upcoming parties.  To see last year's invites, check out June 2008 blog entries.  Here is a sampling of today's photo shoot for the invite:

Our window became our door

I've been asked to show our window before it became our door.  I also got pics from the outside today, so you can see the steps.

Two days in a row!

We have success!  Elliot has poopied in the potty for two days in a row now!  Yay!  As much as I LOVE my cloth diapers, I love the prospect of no diapers!

New videos!

Check out the video bar to the right and our YouTube page to see new videos of Elliot and more!

Where did all our money go?

Dave and I are very smart with our money.  We had big plans for some of our savings, sadly all those plans fell together at the same time and now we're poor :)  Plus, we've planned a cruise to leave the day after our 5-year anniversary and return 3 days before my 30th birthday!  I wish I had before pics, but I don't.  Here are the after pics!

Cut out windows to put in French doors - it was POURING rain, so they made a makeshift tent:

Outside view:
One more look:
Voila!:
Our new furniture - our new sofa:
Our new chair - they're oversized pieces - can you tell?  
Elliot and her Daddy:

Swinging while we cook!

Elliot loves to go in her swing on our back porch. Especially while Daddy is grilling and Mommy is cooking inside. She is rocking at eating with a fork and getting better with a spoon.  

She's eating Spaghetti-O's with peas and rice (she insisted on getting her hands on our rice):

Since she's using a spoon and eating Spaghetti-O's, she has no shirt on:
She and Daddy feed each other all the time.  This is the best way to get her to eat something:
In her swing:
Whee!!!!!!!!!!!!

Memorial Day Weekend - Angie's Wedding

Sorry, blog fans, I've been getting behind!  (Here you go, Ronnie...)

We went to Nana and PopPop's for Memorial Day weekend in Marietta, Ohio.  We had a great time other than our car breaking down upon arrival.  Elliot LOVED hanging out with her cousins, Jed and Molly.  Nana and PopPop LOVED hanging out with their grandkiddies.

PopPop and Molly:
Molly and Elliot:
Nana and PopPop:
Molly, Elliot, and PopPop:
Molly, PopPop, Elliot, and Jed - Elliot, make yourself comfortable!

Funny story about Elliot and that onesie she's wearing:

Her onesie says "Grandpa's Sweetheart." We taught her that that's what it said. She wore them to bed as jammies one night, and the next morning we woke to her saying, "Grandpa's Sweetheart! Grandpa's Sweetheart! Grandpa's Sweetheart!" over and over and over. When we went downstairs, PopPop asked her what her shirt said, and she replied, "PopPop's Sweetheart!" What a smart girl, already knowing how to kiss arse!

Angie and Nathan also got married this weekend, which we wouldn't have missed for anything!

Elliot and Molly dancing - Ring Around the Rosy!
Dad, Phil and Jamey - my handsome family:
Every wedding should have a hayride!
Dad, Mom, Molly, Constance, Carlton (cousin), and Phil:
Angie and Nathan - we love you!!!  CONGRATULATIONS!!!