Summertime at last

Maybe I should make my blogging goal to be once per season, rather than once a month. It felt like spring was over before I could blink this year.  We stayed here for Easter, rather than driving to Tyler. It's nice to get to go to our regular church for that special day, even though we miss seeing our families. Elisabeth has a super-cute Easter dress, but as usual, we were running late on Sunday morning and she wasn't volunteering for pictures. I thought I'd get some pictures of her when we got home, but sadly that did not happen. However, we had some sweet bunny photos made back in February, so . . . I'll count that as her Easter pic.

We have enjoyed the spring weather and gone to the park quite a few times. She loves to swing and says "Wheee!" pretty much the whole time she's swinging. The rest of the playground is not as popular because she is not a fan of sand, especially walking through it.

On May 6, our baby girl turned 2!  We definitely have a toddler on our hands---she has her own agenda, and is on the go nonstop.  The highchair has been put away, and we are working on potty training (a much huger undertaking than I was expecting. My baby has turned into a sweet girl who loves to make us laugh. She teases and giggles and does her own form of slapstick comedy.  I heard that for most kids, at around 18 months they began talking a lot more and imitating language. That didn't happen for us until she was about 23 months. And now, wow--our girl is a chatterbox! "Where Daddy go? Daddy work."  "Truck/Bus/Car Beep! Beep! Where truck go?"  And now her favorite: "No like it." Which is pretty much in regards to any food that is not fruit, yogurt, or turkey (which explains her skinny little body). My favorite is "Hold her please." She has not been much of a cuddler until lately, but the last couple of weeks she has made this request quite often. I love it! 
We had a small birthday party for her, which was not planned very well as it was on Mother's Day weekend. Luckily, Grandpa got to be here, and she had a great time.  I will try to plan a bit better for next year.

Snuggling with her hippo pillow pet from Grandpa.

We rocked out with Elmo!

Trying out the new "cicle" from Mawmaw & Pawpaw.