Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The shirt says it all!


Eleanor is going to be a big sister sometime around October 7! She looks quite excited, don't you think? The first time I told her I had a baby in my tummy, she said, "Yummy Tummy!" Yeah, I think she totally understands what's happening!  ;)

I had my first (very uneventful) doctor's appointment today and I go back on March 10 for an ultrasound.  If this baby comes 2 weeks early like Eleanor did (yes she was induced, but she was definitely on her way), I may end up having a baby on my 30th birthday!

So far I've had basically the same pregnancy symptoms as in the past, so I have a hunch it's a girl.  Of course, who knows!  Eleanor made a prediction for us:

Monday, February 21, 2011

Our trip to Greenville

Eleanor and I flew up to Greenville (I love Allegiant Air!) for a long weekend with Hunter's family and some of our friends. We had a great time!

Eleanor loved the Construction Zone at the Children's Museum in Greenville!



Her favorite part was definitely the water play area though.

Should I be concerned that her favorite thing to do was to hold the rubber ducks under water?

Reagan enjoyed the water, too!

We all went to feed some ducks on our last day



Holding my niece!





Kissing Grandpa goodbye



Kissing Grandma goodbye


Hanging out at the airport, waiting for our delayed flight


Somebody was sleepy on the plane!

Our trip was perfect until we got back to Orlando.  Apparently when I arrived at the airport at 5:45 AM to fly out, I turned on the inside light in my car as I was unloading it.  I don't remember this at all, but the switch was turned "on" and my car battery was completely dead when I tried to start it up to go home.  Thankfully a very kind man stopped and jumped my car, but we had to wait in the (hot) parking lot for about 40 minutes before we finally got on the road.  Otherwise though, we had a great trip - as you can see!

My first red velvet cake

This wasn't the best red velvet cake I've ever had, but it was pretty good. I think Hunter is happy that he got me my KitchenAid mixer for Christmas!


Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Like Mother, Like Daughter

This is one of those things that is probably only funny to us, but I thought I'd share anyway.  Eleanor has a big cabinet filled with her toys - there's a basket of balls, a basket of legos, etc.  Her favorite by FAR is her basket of animals (I got a great deal on these animals on Craigslist) and she loves to play with them.  Well yesterday she got them all out of the basket and put them on display in the cabinet.  We thought this was really funny!



When Hunter saw this he laughed and said, "She DEFINITELY gets that from YOU!"  I guess he's not big on setting up displays!

Monday, February 14, 2011

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day from my funny little Valentine! She picked out her own accessories, by the way.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Some Eleanor Moments

It seems like Eleanor does something interesting every day (or multiple times each day!) so I just wanted to write these down before I forget.

We had chicken for dinner the other night, and Eleanor will never eat chicken.  I tried anyway though.
Me:  "Eleanor, would you like some chicken?"
Eleanor made a disgusted face and pushed my hand away.
Hunter:  "Would you like to try some goat meat?"  (NO, we did not have goat meat!  It was the same chicken!)
Eleanor ate a bite, and then said, "Mmmmm!  More! More! More!"
We both sacrificed some 'goat meat' from our plates so she could have some.  Crazy kid....and crazy daddy.

Eleanor said her first sentence the other day!  She's said phrases that we've taught her ("all done") and she recently started putting two words together on her own ("big book"), but this is the first time I think she's come up with a sentence all on her own:  "I will do it."  That's my independent girl!!  If you're wondering, she was talking about letting the water out of the tub...SHE wanted to be the one to do it.

Yesterday she was talking away into her toy phone.  It was really cute, and when she finally paused for a second I said, "Who are you talking to?"  Without missing a beat, she said, "Daddy" and went right back to talking to him.

She has a bunch of plastic animals and yesterday she and Hunter were playing with them together.  Hunter showed her how to make the wolf tilt back onto its hind legs and howl, and then he did it with the fox.  Eleanor picked up the eel (yes, she has a plastic eel) and made it stand up (?) and howl.  Hunter told her that the eel doesn't howl, so she turned to the whale and tilted it back onto its tail and made it howl.

This morning Eleanor was playing with her little people.  She had this one person (it may have been a lion, actually) and was talking and talking to it.  She said, "badadabe come here bada dedadabe change diaper."  Then she turned the person onto his back to change its diaper!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Videos

I posted a picture the other day of Eleanor "streeeetching", but here's a little video too:

Eleanor doesn't like it when I leave her at a friend's house. (She's always fine after a couple of minutes though!)

Finally, here's my singing girl!