Saturday, April 20, 2013

easter whirlwind

We enjoyed a very brisk, cold Easter Egg Hunt!




And dyed Easter Eggs.

On Easter morning we started our day with a sunrise service in Tower Grove Park with a few friends from community groups around the Park.

And then had a pretty whirlwind day with church and 3 different family dinners.
 Family Dinner #1: Auntie & Uncle Russell's House.

We attempted a kid pic. But you know how that goes.

 And 1 month old Noah snoozed on the couch.

On to Family Dinner #2: Grandpa Hank's & Grandma Denises's. Okay so we didn't actually eat dinner here - but we did get a chance to stop in and hang with Pete's fam for a bit.

We ended our day with Family Dinner #3: Sunday Dinner with our friends who really are our family too. A great way to end the day!

eloise's 9 & 10 month pics!

So many things to catch up! Let's start with some monthly chair pictures for sweet Eloise at 9 (February 28th) and 10 (March 28th) months!

Eloise started crawling right at 9 months. She had started army crawling around 8-8 1/2 months and it only took a couple weeks for her to start inching around on her knees which very quickly turned to crawling all over the house! Our girl is showing a very determined personality these days - she sees something and zooms toward it. You take it away, she persists. She has a very determined spirit, that is for sure!

At 9 months she was 31.5 inches tall (off the charts and the same height as Ethan was at that age) and 20.2 lbs (about 92nd percentile). She is well into 18 month and some 24 month and 2T clothes - and not surprising since she loves to eat. Around 9 months she was almost completely on finger foods - and she seriously goes to town feeding herself! She is a vacuum. And we love her dearly.

What else to say about my sweet Eloise Joy in the last couple of months? She is just that - such a JOY. Her smile brightens everything and her eyes sparkle. She giggles and laughs and has started to clap her hands. She adores her big brother and he has started to like playing with her. She beams. She is precious and we just absolutely love her.

Here are pictures from her 9 month birthday (February).




And 10 months (March).



Ethan jumped in on her 10 month chair pics too -