Life of Lulu: December 2019

Happy beginning of the Christmas season! We had to mix up our original Thanksgiving plans this year, and we welcomed Gma Elsie and Gpa Ron over for a bunch of days over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend :) Of course, Little E had a blast with them and they did TONS of things together. We were so busy I forgot to take a end of the month photo shoot in her Adirondack chair.

Some highlights

Before Gma/Gpa got here, we three spent a pretty quiet Thanksgiving ourselves, day of. Cornish hens, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, rolls, and apple pie for desert.
Friday after thanksgiving we went off to the Legacy Academy for a couple hours. Haven't been there since last spring and Elsie had a blast running around trying all the things (games, bouncy things, jumping things, slides, carousel, toys, legos). Favorite was the carousel!
Friday night Gma/Gpa arrive! Lots of rolling around and showing them all her new favorite toys and things.
Classic quote while we were eating breakfast we were asking her what everyone's names were. Mom? "Betty" Dad? "Spencer" (sounds like sfensir, still getting the "th" and "sp" sounds down). Grandpa? "Ron" she knew, but Grandma she didn't really know so she said "Slinger", which was adorable and then she learned she is named after Gma Elsie
Another morning Little E was helping Gpa make some waffles, and thye decided to put chocolate chips in them (of course) and I overheard my dad saying, "Those chocolate chips are really good, aren't they? They fit in your mouth really good!"
Both Gma/Gpa were impressed with her potty skills, and found it kind of funny that she likes to be completely alone. Sometimes she doesn't wipe or flush, however, hence the following conversation I had with her, to my parents' amusement. "Did you go pee?" "Yup", "Did you wipe" "....nope", "Did you poop?" "No, just a toot".
Another breakfast we were sitting around the table, Gma/Gpa, Me and Little E, and all of a sudden Little E raises both hands (like STOP) and says something we eventually figure out to be "hole". It ended up she was pointing at Dad and I because we both have a hole (me in my shirt, dad in his sock). Haha, she still brings up the fact that I had a hole in my shirt, like this morning she saw a hole in her leggings and she said, "Hole like you, Mom!"
Another classic quote, Gma asked her how many grandpas she had and she said "5". haha
As you can see most mornings start out pretty chill, hanging around the kitchen table for coffee and breakfast. Then someone usually picks something to do for the day, go to the mall, my mom took Elsie to a bounce house for kids, we went to see lights, we went to the museum, lots of fun goings on.
By far one of the coolest things we did was a very spur of the moment thing, Spencer woke me up at like 10 pm to see if I wanted to go to Hamilton and in my delirium I said, "ask me in the morning", but a couple minutes later realized what he asked me and said, "YES!" So the next day my mom, dad, and I went to see HAMILTON!!!! I felt really bad that Spencer couldn't go, but the person we got the tickets from only had 3, and he really, unselfishly wanted us three to go. It was so fun, and such a great distraction from the painfulness of the week, since we recently had a miscarriage. I think I laughed and cried the same the entire time, and it was a blast overall!

It was super great they were able to change plans and come to see us, since we had originally intended to head to Fbo, MN. We plan to make the trek in a couple weeks for X-mas, so that will be great! I'm so lucky and thankful to have such a loving, caring, supportive family!!!

Doing our hair and watching the Thanksgiving Parade on Turkey Day.

Silly time with grandma! She and Little E picked out that flamingo in the background and an array of ivy/poinsettias/mossy floral arrangement to make me feel better and it did, along with seeing their smiling faces every day.

Gma and Gpa took the little one to the mall for some playground and fun with the cars.

We drove through a local lights show, I thought this display with the Monona terrace, and the capital, with them both in the background was especially cool.

Flamingos playing soccer to celebrate our local semi-pro soccer team, the Forward Flamingos. Yes, they light up to kick a ball back and forth, then score a goal.

Gma capitalized on Little E's recent love of Peppa pig to make her her very own pinata! She also go her some peppa play sets, thanks grandma!

Spencer, Arthur, and Elsie all cuddling and watching some baby.

Loves Arthur and "Pink Bear"

She and I went to wal-mart to pick out some paint, and after judiciously studying the 10 various pink colors, she chose this color to paint her pinata, and herself!