Funny Pics of my girl!

Elie with pants on her head.

With her friend James at playgroup and Aubrey in the ball pit. Elie and James were very cute playing together, I think they still love each other.

Horsey!

Elie's new favorite game, Mommy and Daddy are the horsies!

This was after the little buckaroo crashed and the big old horsey tickled her to death.

Swimming with Daddy!

"In my octopus", that is what Elie calls her tube because there is an octopus on it.

Artsy-fartsy picture!

"Kicking my feet, Dad says I already kick better than Mom does".

Elie on her pink trike!

Butterfly Pavillion

Elie an I went and met Beth and Sam at the Butterfly Pavilion yesterday. It was fun, we got eaten by mosquitoes, and Elie tried to kill endangered butterflies, other then that it was fun hanging out with Bethie and Mr. Sam.

This is were the mosquito attacked, but at least I got a cute picture first!

Elie pointing to a minuscule butterfly.

Charlie Brown, I mean Sam and Bethie chilling with the butterflies.

Elie was actually kissing Sam not eating his face.

Elie pulling Sam in her wagon right before the mosquito attack.

Dr.'s Appt.

This picture is a blast from the past. It was taken when Elie was about 3 hours old...We had Elie's 2 year check-up today at the doctors. She is 36.75 inches tall (97th%ile), she weighs 27lbs.20oz. (55th%ile) and her head measures at 65th%ile (that stat is for all the Yates)...and she is still PERFECT!!!

Elie and I went and played at a new park today. I had my camera but didn't get any pictures so I thought I would blog these park pictures from her birthday weekend. This just also happens to be the park across the street from our new house! This is the view out of our imaginary, yet to-be-built front door. You walk out the door and, VOILA you are at the park!

This is the the view to the west from the park and out of the west side of our house! It's really going to be a pretty terrible place to live (if they ever start building it)!

Fun with Elmo!

This is a current theme at our house...swimming suit and goggles, but at least this time we are playing in the water. I don't think the floaty will help in the grass though.

MiMi found this Elmo sprinkler at a garage sale. Great present because Elmo+Water=AWESOME FUN!!!

Here's Sarah trying to show Elie how to jump over the water.

Elie's turn!

Right in the face!

Elie's B-Day Party!

Elie's Arrival! She walked around observing everything with her hands on her hips. I had never seen her do this before.

I think she went own her roller coaster about 1000 times that day and has done it another 5ooo times since!

Playing with some of her new presents!

Swimming is the whale pool...

Getting squitred by the whale pool...

Blowing bubbles...

And finally the cake. My masterpiece,it only took me three days, no big deal *and it tasted really good too)!

Officially 2!

After a really fun birthday party last weekend Elie's real birthday was yesterday. We had a pretty low-key day of Elie not napping and climbing out of her crib for the first time. In the evening she opened her presents and we had more cake!

Elie could see her presents out of the door! She got her very own Strider bike and helmet.

And her very own Caterpiller dump truck, she loved them all.

Our New House!

This is just the model home of our new house. We will not be painting our's light poop brown with orange trim.

And our house will be on this dirt lot! Isn't it the most beautiful dirt you've ever seen? Hopefully we'll be in it by Christmas!