Happy May! In a nutshell, this month
we:
- Fixed up the back yard BIG TIME! We got a 12 yd
dumpster and FILLED it to the top with junk, construction material, and
the old rotting shed behind the garage. My mom was here that weekend and
it was astounding how fast we three (four! Little E helped push the wheel
barrow and carried stuff) filled it up. We actually ran out of room, so
the roof of the old shed is still in back.
- We put in our FIRST garden, woop woop! First, Spencer
spent several days burying the sump pump line, with the outlet into the
garden bed. Man is the backyard nice without the crazy contraptions he had
been using :) No more clothes-lining Little E. Then we used some garden
bed bricks from Home Depot to build a raised garden bed. 25! bags of soil
later it was mostly full and we headed to the A1 Flower and Garden shop
just out of town to get plants. If everything works out we will have a
bunch of zucchini, butternut squash, acorn squash, tomatoes, broccoli,
brussel sprouts and probably a million peppers of various varieties. We
also picked up a couple raspberry bushes and blueberry bush. Jacob Dixon
says, "we won't get any blueberries this year" but I see flower
buds.... Little E had a blast helping us out in planting everything, and
running around the back yard while we got everything fixed up. Any excuse
to be outside.
- Baby is MUCH more independent and wants to do things on
her own, and is pretty good at telling us what she wants (good or bad?).
Wants to do the stairs on her own, wants to put shoes on herself, wants to
put pants on, wants to play phone, wants mom to sit by her when she
watches Daniel Tiger. REFUSES to wear diaper at least once a day and
diaper changes have become a real struggle :\ I got her some pull-ups, and
that's helped but potty training may be imminent. It's all good though,
I'm raising a strong, independent woman, future CEO!
- Size 2t and 5 shoes
Elsie Loves
- Cheers-ing people with drinks and food
- Chocoloate ice cream cones, and ice cream in general.
Calls it "cold" right now.
- Kissing any owies, hers especially, but Big E's, mine
and dad's also.
- Saying please and thank you, mostly gets it right but
it's especially cute when she mixes it up. Ex, she'll give us something
and then say Thank you!
- Lots of laughing and noises, and singing songs, though
the words are not real words
- Loves BATHTIME!
- Loves marbles in bath, got this plastic ball ramp and
put the marbles down that, put them in bottom of tub, fill up cups and
dump them out.
- Loves bubbles, suds, and popping bubbles in tub
- After bath always needs cape or what she calls
"zip" (her Minne Mouse zip up pink robe from Gma E), diaper
only if we can force her to do it
- Loves Daniel and Elmo every morning, also loves Dave
and Ava
- Lots of toothy smiles, 14? i think teeth, got all her
canines
- Loves Jada, the tween neighbor, and her four brothers,
loves to go play with them, their dog and cat (Spirit and Holy, resp.)
- Loves putting on socks and shoes especially the Velcro
sandals from Odette
- Loves being outside, walks, playground, back yard, we
finally got some lawn chairs but they dig right into the lawn and we need
some cushions. More to do!
- Loves playing with my sewing machine, doesn't exactly
know what it does, but knows fabric goes under needle and the thread is
important.
- Tried to tie-dye and it mostly worked
- She LOVES food coloring, we like to color our pancakes
and they are always EXTRA colorful, usually not brown either ;)
- Loves banana, blueberry, Apple, peanut butter, fizzy
water, orange juice in a little cup, CHOCOLATE, Ice cream cones, avocado,
mac n cheese, M&Ms, any chocolate, cool whip but not cake
- Wheels on the bus
- Playing ball or "soccer" as she calls it.
Throw ball to ceiling or bounce down, kick balls and balloons, make a
basket.
- Awesome at and loves to jump!
- Arranging things, nail polish, loop gloss, rings,
bears
- Loves swim class
Elsie Hates
- Hates Game of thrones final season
- Still hates meat
- Mostly sleeping through night, though later bed and
sleeping in to ~630 am
- Hates getting her hair done and it's always in her face
- Thunderstorms, says "scared"
- Hates putting diaper on after bath
- Mine! is a new one lately, everything is MINE! even if
it's not hers.
- Doesn't like goop on her hands, like dirt or batter
- Sianara wubbas, they are a novelty at this point, not
something for comfort. Still needs baby and Mao to go to bed.
Photo shoot was like the good ol'
days, couldn't get her to sit and smile for me. At least it's outside near the
new garden :) She would rather hang out in our new patio chairs (covers still
being made by yours truly). I even tried on different days, to no avail.
