Saturday, July 18, 2009

Elliot is 3!



Elliot spent her 3rd birthday with her friend Ella. The day started out with Elliot waking me up at 5am with an enthusiastic "It's my birthday". Which I told her it was a little early to start celebrating. So thankfully I was able to get her to cuddle for a couple more hours. We spent the afternoon at swim lessons followed by a 3 hour nap. We had to wake Elliot up so she could open her presents and eat dinner before the planned activities (that is why she looks so tired in the pictures). We took the Christensens to skymania and the girls and the adults wore themselves out jumping on the trampolines. Afterward we took two tired girls out for dessert. Elliot had a fun birthday and she enjoys telling everyone that she is 3 years old now.



We celebrated Elliot's birthday with my family on the following Sunday. So if you don't mind listening to the beautiful vocal talents of my family her is a cute video of Elliot.

Swim lessons



For two weeks in June, Elliot and Ella took swim lessons. I was amazed at how well the girls did. Their instructor Rosie (in the black hat) is amazing with kids. Once Elliot had on some goggles we couldn't keep her head out of the water. By the second day she was swimming between Rosie and me. She is a little apprehensive about letting go of my finger when we go swimming now ( I don't know what happened?) but she does good and is our little water baby.