Another funny quote

Just another quote from my favorite 2 1/2 year old...

Setting: In the back seat of the car.

Elaina: "Mommy, I got a booger"...... (long pause)

Elaina: "Will you get it? My thumb is too big."

Gymnastics Update

Just an update on Elaina's gymnastics class. First of all, she LOVES it (to say the least). She gets so excited when we tell her she gets to go that day. She has really come a long way and we can tell her strength and coordination is improving because of it. Here are some shots we took recently....

Doing stretches - in this pic she walks her hands out like a spider and then stomps the spiders. Super fun if you're 2 years old

Butterfly stretches - she always tell her teacher her butterfly is pink

Ankle stretches

Crawling through the tunnel - just a cute pic


Doing the scary bear crawl...

Balance beam - update on this... she would not do the balance without holding someone's hand. Here she is thinking about doing it without help but she did not. I even tried the bribing method (my sister likes to call bribery "behavioral motivation"). She said "no" to my bribe. oh well. But, about 10 minutes later, while no one was looking, she did it. She was so excited and proud of herself. We were proud too....

Swinging from the bar....

Here is a short video of her doing what they call "skin the cat".........

Easter 2010

Since we did all the festivities on Saturday, Easter Sunday was a pretty relaxed day for us - just like any other Sunday. We got up, went to church, stopped for our Sunday biscuit and then home to enjoy the day. It was very nice. Elaina got her Easter basket and loved it - here are some pics of us in our Easter attire...

Before church - Elaina posing with her "rescue bar" She calls breakfast bars, "rescue bars"

Such a cute pose - I know, it needs to be censored but hey, it's just a diaper. Before church pose.... so adoreable.
After church poses with me and Elaina

After church poses with daddy....

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this pic - melts my heart.

Elaina's Easter basket

All smiles opening the goodies in her basket

She got a Dora bubble blower in her basket - she's testing it out outside. Again, censorship required :) sorry.

We hope you all had a fabulous Easter celebrating that Jesus lives!!! We are so blessed and which many blessing and lots of love to you and your family!!

Easter Saturday

This year we celebrated Easter with our families on the Saturday before Easter. It turned out that Saturday worked best for both sides of the family. It was a busy day but we enjoyed it very much. We started by going to the park at Norris with Erik's family in the morning. It was SO windy that we had to hurry though lunch and leave to go finish out the celebration at his mom's house. I didn't take any pics at the park because we were not there long. When I say it was windy, I mean it was windy!! The lids to the metal trash cans were flying off and everything. We could not eat lunch very comfortably as we were afraid it would fly away - and some people's lunch did. There was a lot of chasing plates/eggs/napkins/everything going on. It was really unbelievable how windy it was. Anyway, I took lots of pics this day so hang on and bear with me for these....and enjoy :)

Blowing bubbles...

Elaina's second cousins - Liana and Kelsey

Elaina and Liana - say that 3 times over and over

Elaina with her Papaw (and her cake). She loves him.... I think the feeling is mutal :)

Just a cute shot of her walking away - what is it about pics like this that I love so much??

Elaina with her daddy - notice she still holding that cake. I'm not sure she even ate it, just carried it aroundMe and Elaina on the swingFor whatever reason this pic cracks me up... she looks so sad Coloring cookies - yes, I said cookies. I found these cookies that you color with edible ink. They tasted terrible but the kids loved coloring them
Kelsey coloring a cookie
Liana showing off her cookie

Next stop was to my mom's house... we had dinner, colored eggs and did an Easter egg hunt there.... fun times.

Quentin coloring Easter eggs

My cousin, Emily, brought her little girl, Eliza Grace.... Here she is coloring eggsCousin Celia coloring eggs Cousin Sadie coloring her eggsElaina coloring her eggs. She wanted to hold half of it in like the big kids were doing....

A finished egg....

And now on to the Easter egg hunt... loads of fun for the kids

Elaina counting her eggs with her Aunt Nell

All the kids after the hunt - from left: Eliza Grace, Alexandra, Elaina, Quentin, Celia, Sadie

kind of a blurry pic because of the light but this is Alexandra and Nell

Me and my sister, Abby (same blurry issue)

Great Friday!

Good Friday was a GREAT day. We spent the day together as a family at home. Erik tinkered in the garage and outside most of the day. Elaina and I enjoyed all the usual things we do around the house, only we did as many things as we could outside. Here are some shots of the days activities.....

Picnic lunch outside...this was taken with the timer

Then Erik came outside and helped take a shot at a more reasonable angle.

Playdough outside under the swingset at the picnic table.

She convinced me to get under - not very comfortable to lean over the whole time but we had fun. Another pic by Erik.
Then we died Easter eggs... inside. Don't know why, just didn't feel like taking it outside. She painted and stamped eggs and loved that. The finished product - notice there is an egg for Jax. She insisted.