The Tower of London

Jimmy is in London this week. For those of you who don't know I love reading about the Tudor History of England, so I was sad I couldn't go with Jimmy on this trip but I am not ready to leave my cute little girl for a week yet either. So Jimmy took this picture for me with the caption, "Me standing where they cut off Ann (Boelyn's) head!"

Rubber duckie your the one!

We finally solved the riddle of where to bathe Elie next, since we don't have a bath tub, or better yet Babies R'Us came through again. They have blow up tubs, which Jimmy nearly passed out blowing up. But Elie loved it!She enjoyed eating her light up rubber duckies!

But most of all she like to splash and splash, I was soaking wet.

Eek! We had to lower her crib mattress this weekend because she has started pulling herself up on the crib slates.

Weekend Fun!

It's a monchi-chi suckafesh! (for those of you who don't speak Jimmy and Maggie that means a silly monkey)! Elie is showing off her monkey onsesie.

Elie zoomed around the whole house on her car with Dad.

Tuckered out...This is my favorite when she falls asleep on my chest or my shoulder!

These Eyes!

Can you believe these babies eyes?! I love them!

Easter!

First, the little Easter bunny got all dressed up for Easter morning.

Then, she got her Easter basket...

And her Easter ball...

Then, we went over to my parents house where she got her Irish Easter presents, the hats a little big, but she'll grow into it.

She quickly ripped it off of her head...

The little lambie is a puppet and she laughed hysterically when it tickled her belly!

Play Group!

We met with our buddies on Saturday. Elie dressed up in her finest Easter attire!

This is baby Aeva, she and ELie are buds, Aeva made a cameo in the blog back in February.

Elie and Aeva played Wrestle Mania and then when ELie's ten fingers were no longer good enough she decided to eat Aeva's.

Baby James and Baby Alex. We think Elie and James are fighting, they weren't hanging out much, James did start crawling so I think Elie is feeling a little left behind :(

BOOKCLUB!

This is the best book I have read in awhile (I think I read it in 3 days). It is so heart-wrenchingly wonderful. If you haven't read it, I highly recomend it.

There was a little baby that swallowed a fly...I don't know why she swallowed a fly, perhaps she'll die..."So Elie has this little toy with a frog on it and out of the frogs mouth comes this fly attatched to a string. As you can see Elie thinks she is a frog and likes to eat the fly. It is hilarious because she sits around playing with everything all the while sucking on the fly, like its a pacifer or something...it is very funny!

JUMP-A-ROOOO!

We finally got this crazy baby a jumeroo and she loves it! Above is an actual action shot she goes crazy in this thing.

Lounging with Dad early on a Saturday morning.
"Mom and Dad wouldn't let me watch any cartoons so I decided I would eat the remote!"

GranMolly's 60th birthday!

Friday was my mom's 60 th birthday. We celebrated on Thursday because my mom and dad left for Ireland to celebrate their 60th year on friday a.m. First Elie posed for some pictures...

Then she helped open presents....

And then played in the ribbons!

Finally a new blog!

Sorry I have not been very blog-tastic this week. This is Elie playing with her Zoolio toy that Aunt Jane gave her for Christmas, she loves these little animals toys.

More party pics...

We met with all of our friends from our old Mom's group last night, here are some pics!Here are some more of Elie's buddies, from left to right, Addison, Olivia, Layla, Ryan and Haley's feet. Not pictured are Baby Alex,and Briana. Slightly Picture is Haley.

This is Baby Olivia, her blog link is over on our friends' websites

Reunited and it Feels so Good!

Elie was reunited with her boyfriend James. They had not seen each other for several weeks and clearly were excited to see one another!

Carrot Problem!

We had a little probalem eating carrots today. After sticking her hands in her mouth, that had carrots in it, she took it out and rubbed her eyes smearing carrots all over face. She looks very proud of her artwork/ facial.

Tour de California- Final Stage- Sleep!

Tour de California- Stage 5- Torrance- Party!

Sarah and Vinnie's Engagment Party! Elie in her party dress with Auntie Sarah in her party dress!

Elie with Aunt Sarah and soon-to-be Uncle Vinnie! There was a fire in the back yard so it's was a little smokey, but still worth the blog.

"Before the party Grandpa Yates was trying to teach me how to crawl. I did pretty well but I still can't do it on my own...look out Mom!"

Tour de California- Stage 4- Torrance

This was "Opening Day" for Torrance Little League and Tee-Ball. Jimmy's cousin Conner is in "the Majors" now (only he plays for the Yankees). They have this huge carnival and parade for the kids and we went and watched. Jimmy relived the glory days of little league where he told me he "owned the field" and used to hit bombs out of the park, a whopping 220 feet! They had cows there for Cow Chip Bingo! They graph a field in a bingo card and where ever the cow poops you get the square..."B-32!"

Elie got to play with some balloons!

Playing a the park with Mom and Dad!

Playing puppets with Grandma Yates.