Thursday, December 17, 2009

Smartypants

Elliot is growing up so much lately, I just wanted to get in writing the things that she is doing, so that someday we can look back.

She knows her uppercase letters with about 90% accuracy.

She is learning her lowercase letters. (She was getting frustrated one night, while trying to point out letters in a book to me, that she didn't know the "other" letters.)

She can count to 20, but typically leaves out 14 and 15.

She sings many many songs like ABC's, Twinkle, Jingle Bells, Itsy Bitsy Spider and Teapot.

Right now she is way into babies. Baby dolls, diapers, feeding them, etc. Santa will surely bring her some things related to that!

She LOVES books. She reads more books than I can sometimes handle. And we read the same books for about a week or two, then we're onto something new for another week or two. She has two sets of 12 Winnie the Pooh board books that are teeny tiny that she plays with and "reads" daily. She has most memorized.

She loves to jump.

She loves playing music of any kind. (Not at all surprising!)

She can spell her first name, knows her full name and our street address. She can also tell you the name of all her family (Mommy is Stephanie, Daddy is David, Grandpa is Bill, Nana is Karen, etc.)

Monday, December 14, 2009

Gingerbread House

What Christmas would be complete without a Gingerbread House? (All of mine, by the way, this was my first!) But still, it seemed like a really fun craft to do with Elliot!


Christmas 2009 Pictures of our Family