No Fear Elise

Everyone always asks me about Elise age. 

 My answer often include something about her being the third baby in our family.  

In comparison she is a tiny toddler ranking in the slightly under ten percent of toddlers her age.  

Wait what about all the other rankings.  Such as how well she moves to the beat of 

Moves Like Jagger, how communicative she already is and how she loves to and is good 

at climbing.  

It feels like she learns new tricks while i have my back turned to the rest of the house washing dishes.  

One day I turned around and saw Miss Tiny clinging onto this chair for dear life.

 I wonder if she was comfortable in this position because she never yelped for help.  

And this picture was the start to many more climbing adventures

 much higher and without fear.  ....OH DEAR!

Tickle, tickle

Lately we host fewer play dates.  

After school the kids are a play date of their own.  It's the joy of having siblings. 

Their gift is to entertain each other.  One of Aidan and Ethan's all time favorite thing to do is wrestle.  

Elise loves to get in on the action.  The boys try to be gentle but someone always gets a little injured.  

I pray its not Elise every time.  

Aidan is so good to lay there and get the royal tickle. 

Such long limbs on the boys.

  I remember when Aidan and Ethan looked just like Elise.  Kinda tubby. 

Easter wreath

Fort Bitting

The boys said

"MOM can we build a fort?"

Elise was gesturing

" Oooh, what's a fort? I want to play too...."

Ethan's first field trip

Ethan went to Taborah Farm with his class. He learned about different kinds of pumpkins. This is his favorite the Shrek pumpkin.

For his first field trip Ethan made sure to wear his favorite t-shirt.

Sister came along.

She had fun swimming in the bin of apples.

When I asked Ethan about his favorite part of the field trip he said he liked lunch because he got to have his water bottle. It was an unusually warm October day.

Ethan's least favorite part of the field trip was when everyone came and sat on the bench that he was pushing. Here's he's saying " you, plus you, plus you, plus you are too heavy".

One year check up

Birthday girl went for her one year old check up at the doctor's office. She did this the whole time. What a cutie. She's feeling her slick new teeth.



Here's how the brother's felt about having to attend the visit with Elise.



Petite Elise is in the 8% for her age.



Aidan and Ethan demonstrate to Elise what Dr.'s visits are all about.




Ethan tells Elise
"you are getting shots today baby"
and kisses her.
What a nice big brother.

one pink party

Sugar and spice and everything nice, that's what little girls are made of.
Happy first birthday baby!










Birthday girl facts:
Loves music, she breaks out into a litle dance when she hears her favorite song "Moves like Jagger" by Maroon 5.
Favorite fruit : blueberries
Favorite vegetables: edamame and artichoke
Favorite pass time activity: walks in the stroller around our neighborhood
Favorite play time: pulling anything/everything out of drawers. I call her Tropical Storm Elise. She also loves to bey blade battle with her borthers.
While the brothers are away (at school), sister likes to go into their rooms and rake everything off their night stand. If they have toys on the floor she usually sits on it and distroys it. And if that's not enough evidence that 'someone' was in their room, they can always find their favorite lego guys hostage in her room.


Lastly we are still nursing.



PRESENTS!!!
She had alot of fun with the tissue.