Eilee's 2nd Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone!! Here are some pictures of Eilee opening presents and playing with all her fun new toys. We'll post more later today. We also took a lot of videos, but we'll post them later this week. Eilee had a great time tearing open her presents. Thanks to all the family and friends that helped make Eilee's 2nd Christmas fun and memorable.

Bad Eilee

Eilee is 18 months old today, and it seems that everyday she is doing or saying something new. She just learned how to "color", and is always asking for a pen and paper. She hasn't learned to keep the pen on the paper, and is often found with marks on her clothes and person, but hopefully that will be remedied soon. She can also repeat after us the alphabet and numbers 1-10, and sometimes will actually predict the next correct number/letter in the sequence. She just got an early Christmas present of a kiddie table and chair set from my parents and is already enjoying climbing on the chairs instead of sitting on them. Her true personality is starting to shine, and whenever she doesn't get her way she gets this horrible scowl on her face, and stomps around the room with arms raised, looking for something to throw or destroy. It's really quite funny to watch. Eilee has also recently adopted 2 cars (Lightning McQueen and Mater from the Pixar movie Cars) that Dave got her, which she carries around at home and on trips out. She cuddles them in her arms, rocks them like babies and gives them kisses.

I recently decided I should get a mom of the year award, as I made Eilee a super healthy pasta sauce made up of almost all vegetables (serves on whole wheat pasta), that she actually eats and loves). Yeah for me! Makes me feel a little better about all those stupid goldfish crackers she eats.

We had a very quiet and nice Thanksgiving this year, as it was just the three of us. We still made a pretty big dinner (we are still eating leftovers everyday), but Eilee would only partake of Dave's super yummy sweet potato pie. Maybe next year she will be a little more adventurous. As of right now, it also looks like we will be spending a quiet Christmas in Wisconsin this year, as plane tickets are quite outrageous, the weather is uncertain, and we think taking Eilee on a plane at this age will be an absolute disaster.

Enjoy this video of Eilee being her normal, difficult self.

The Funniest Video EVER!

Why is this video so shaky you ask? Because I can't hold the video camera still while laughing hysterically.

Eilee helps put away the clean silverware: