"I did it"

This morning, as we were getting ready to leave for work/day care, I told Elle to get her shoes. She went to the shoe cubby and grabbed her Crocs-style shoes. A few minutes later she walked up to me with a big smile on her face and with one shoe on her feet and said "i did it"! She was referring to the ONE shoe that she was able to put on by herself! She looked so proud of herself :). So cute!

New word for the day...

"FART"...Yes, FART!

I was changing Elle's diaper and all of a sudden she let out some air. We were both caught off guard. I did not say anything but made a face. All of a sudden, she said "fart! nana farting!" lol. I do not even know where she learned that word. Maybe at day care or maybe even at home!? Too bad Daddy Jarbs was not home to witness this. He would have been very proud! lol. Now, almost everytime I change her diaper, she says "fart". Ugh! lol.

Pool day at day care!

Since the weather has been sweltering hot, every Friday for the month of July is pool day at day care! Here's a photo sent by Elle's teacher from the first pool day of the month!

Happy birthday Lolo!

Here is Eleiana's attempt to sing Happy Birthday to Lolo (grandpa)! As you can see, it was so hard to keep her focused.

First attempt. She wanted to "see Nana" on the video camera even before we started filming!

She was too distracted! She started seeing happy birthday to Lolo and then keep switching to Lola.

At one point she picked up a magazine and thought the cover was Anuhea ("he-ya")!

This was the best that we could do ;). Happy 66th birthday Lolo. We love you!!

4th of July!

We had a low key 4th of July celebration. Since the holiday fell in the middle of the week and on a school/work night, it was not really ideal to go somewhere far. Plus, Elle cannot really stay up late to watch the fireworks. Nevertheless, we enjoyed staying home and having our own backyard barbeque.

Happy 4th!

Oh, Daddy Jarbs did her hair :)

 There weren't only two but THREE pigtails!

On our morning walk to Uncle Chips to get her oatmeal raisin cookie. We walked by a fireworks stand and the guy selling them gave her free sparklers just because she looked cute in her 4th of July ensemble :).

Since Daddy Jarbs is vegetarian and I am not really a huge fan of burgers and hotdogs, our backyard barbeque consisted of grilled corn and grilled lobster tails :). Yum!

Later in the day, Elle cooled off in her pool

Sparklers!



Towards the end of the day, Elle grabbed my hand and said "inside, inside". I did not realize it was already past 8 pm. It was already her bedtime so she wanted to go back inside the house. Elle did not see any fireworks but she did hear some "bang bang" earlier in the day. She would say "Nana see bang bang" which meant she wanted to go outside to see where the sound of the firecrackers were coming from :).

US Map!

A week ago, I posted about Elle's love for puzzles. Today, she amazed me by completing half of the US map on her own! She would pick up a puzzle piece and I would ask her "where does [name of state] go?" and she would put it in the right place!

She normally starts with Alaska and Hawaii!

And then Texas

California

Pennsylvania is one of the two states on the East that she knows. She actually surprised me that she knew where it should go since it's kind of in the middle and she still does not know the states around it.

Finished product :)