yeehaw!

we hit the after Christmas sale-99 cents bin!

the potty

we received this 'oh so exciting froggy potty' from eloise's cousin. Well done emma for graduating! We're not trying to actively pursue potty training, but thought we'd start talking about it to eloise and put her on it before bathtime each night. However, eloise is absolutely not interested nor concerned with the real function of the potty, but loves to fill the pot with toys or put her feet down in it and then sit on the edge.

Happy New Year!

Our friends, Katie, Peter and Isaac came over for a New Year's Eve celbration. Isaac and Eloise are 4 months apart and becoming such little buddies. Although, I'm pretty sure that Isaac loves Logan more!!

Eloise's new thing is to back up and sit in between Logan's front paws like this. Not sure why it started, but it's fun to watch as she scoots backwards, bumping into Logan's face over and over until she's in just the right position.

Christmas eve and morning

Eloise relaxing before we headed to church to meet up with my family for Christmas eve.

Daddy reading 'the night before Christmas' in french to the crew.

We picked names among the adults to exchange gifts which also included a less than $5 gag gift t-shirt. These two were my favorites!

eloise was so excited and often lead anyone who was watching in a round of applause for all the fun! Her absolute favorite event, though, was playing in the gigantic mound of wrapping paper after all the gifts were opened. Unfortunately, I must not have a picture of it...too bad.

eloise and emma both received kitchens for christmas and are very IN to them. Emma plays the part very well, eloise just clears everything off and plays peek-a-boo with the oven door. These pictures are while they are playing with Grandma's new kitchen that she picked up at the good will.

christmas lunch at cherokee

does it get any cuter???

yes, as grandma was trying to show the enormous gingerbread house to eloise, she started eating the cereal off of the pathway! Oops.

here is one of those picture perfect moments....until the next moment when she started grabbing ornaments and throwing them...good thing that her dad has quick reflexes.

she was being very wiggly and it was hard to get a good picture. I think this is the best out of the 6 that I took.

eloise has figured out a few new games....walking under daddy's legs and swinging (below). she is such a little character and a ball of fun!!!

decorating the tree

eloise enjoyed putting the ornaments on the tree for about 5 minutes and then spent the rest of the month taking them off the tree and making piles of ornaments on the coffee table. We have had the prettiest and most decorated coffee table i've ever seen.

This should really be the first picture... in the tree lot picking out our Christmas tree.

cousins

eloise and her cousins on my side had some pictures taken to give grandma and pops for Christmas.