Toddling Thru: 21 Months

Eloise is 21 months!!

Eloise has gone thru a foot growth spurt this month and is now wearing a size 7 in her shoes. 

Eloise has a mouth of teeth that we have lost count of how many she has.  Thankfully, she enjoys brushing her teeth and only needs the encouragement of a silly song to get her going.  Eloise has been expressing some interest at home and school in using the potty.  She goes on the potty at least once a day both at home and at school and it so pleased with herself when she does.  She demands to use the potty by saying, "My Botty (aka potty)."  This month has been all about her exploding vocabulary! She says please & thank you for almost everything which is so adorable.  When she says please she puts her little hands together as if she is praying.  Seriously.  I die.  She loves to identify all her school friends' parents such as "Juicy (aka Lucy) mommy....Fi Fi (aka Phoebe) dada...Da Da (aka Daxton) mommy...Nonall (aka Conall) mommy."  Eloise loves to jabber to herself and make up little songs when she is playing or riding in the car.  She has definitely starting expressing her preferences or opinions on anything she can.  She requests certain cartoons & specific sunglasses.  When she doesn't want to take a picture, she says, "No Cheese." When she doesn't want to give you a high five, she says, "No Five."  

How dare you ask me to put away my toys at school!

Eloise is becoming more and more independent.  She navigates the swing set with no problem.  

Eloise has been in swim lessons for a little over a month now and is starting to like it more and more. She is getting more comfortable in the water and practicing her skills. 

Now that the weather is warming up, we have been spending a ton of time outside.  Eloise loves to feed the fish in the pond, check on her trees, smell the flowers, and blow bubbles.  

Eloise had her first trip to a Hibachi restaurant this month too.  She loved her Miso soup and chopsticks.  She kept herself entertained throughout the rest of the dinner with some Sophia the First stickers.  She left the restaurant with a full "sleeve" of stickers.

 One of the biggest milestones of this month was Eloise's transition to her toddler bed.  She loves it!

 

Honorable mention for Piper Kalins (our dog) who turned 8 this month.  Eloise and Piper are truly like siblings as they snuggle, fight, steal from each other, and tattle on each other thru whining or barking.

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Eloise's Week in Photos

Sometimes she can't even be bothered with taking her coat before she needs to color

Munchkins for the Munchkin

 Eloise got to see a real life turtle at Cosley as they were having a special turtle day.  

She was super excited to see all the "Tuttles"

There wasn't a cloud in the sky but this little girl needed this umbrella

We ventured out to Lake Ellyn in Glen Ellyn to scope it out since Mommy is doing a photo shoot there in a few weeks.  In case you are wondering, the playground was a big hit too. 

 We celebrated with Grandpa Kevin (aka Papa) for his birthday last Sunday.  Good luck getting a picture of these two because they are too busy having fun and rocking on the rocking chair!

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Eloise had her 1st trip to Chuck E. Cheese last week and had a blast!  She loved running between all the different games and putting the tokens in the machines.  At the end of our visit, she was able to get a Chuck E. Cheese whistle and a sticker sheet with the tickets she won.  

 We definitely have a future gamer on our hands. 

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 We had a great Mother's Day last Sunday too.  We started our day by having brunch at Grandma Sandy's & Grandpa Mike's house.  Grandpa Mike made a wonderful brunch and didn't let the mommies lift a finger.

Grandma Sandy & Eloise

 Mommy & Mini Selfie

 We continued our Mother's Day celebration with a BBQ with Grandma Karen & Great Grandma Fitz

Grandma Karen (K-ma) & Eloise

My one request of Brad for the whole weekend was that he take a good picture of me & Eloise.  Requested granted :)

Mommy loves you Eloise.  You are my whole world and always will be. 

Toddling Thru: 20 Months

Eloise is 20 months old!

Who, me? Yes, you!

 

 

Eloise has been busy this past month.  Here is a run down of what she has been up to:

• Started swim lessons at Goldfish Swim School.  She loves it up until the point that she has to get her face wet.  From what Grandma Karen & Grandpa Kevin say, Mommy was the same way.  Apple doesn't far from the tree, eh?  She spends a lot of time waving to her spectators and blowing kisses when she should be blowing bubbles!

• Attended her 1st Princess Party as Cinderella.  Eloise loved to put on her pretty dress and tiara. When we first showed it to her, she said, "Wow!" She refused to wear her fancy shoes and opted for the gym shoes.  You can check out more pics from the Princess Party here. 
  
• We made our 1st visit of this season to Cosley Zoo and had a blast.  Eloise knows every animal there now along with their sounds.  She had the time of her life running to all the different animal areas.  We saw ducks, cows, sheep, horses, pigs, chickens, rabbits, and birds. Eloise got to feed the ducks too.

• Bubbles are really "it" right now with Eloise.  She loves to talk about bubbles and tries so hard to blow them herself.

Some of Eloise's best "tricks" right now are:

• Asking go outside by saying, "Side?"
• Calls frogs "Ri-Ri" which is short for ribbit, ribbit
• Refers to all birds as ducks and telling you that they fly
• Refers to Butterflies & other bugs as "Flies"
• Says Turtle so cute that you could almost die
• Requests "Ffffrrooooot" after dinner every night but is referring to squeezable fruit yogurt
• Refers to all drinks that Daddy & Mommy have as "Coff- Coff."  On the weekends, we always get Dunkin Donuts and Eloise will say, "Mommy...Daddy...Coff-Coff"
• Says Please when she asks for something almost every time.  Daddy is real sucker for this especially when she is asking for something she shouldn't have.

One of Mommy's favorite times of the day is listening to Daddy give Eloise a bath.  They laugh, play, and splash the whole time.  Daddy blows bubbles with Eloise and even lets her pour water on his head!