Ditto

This is a picture where Elania looks a lot like her Daddy as a child. We put this up because of Grandma Smith's comment on the horse picture.

Elania has two obsessions: her soother and Dora. She likes wearing her backpack around the house and carrying around the jumbo Dora that Grandma Q. sent her. When daddy comes home the first thing Elania says is, "Dora? daddy? Yum yums?" Guess who introduced Dora to her? Tico the squirrel is her current favourite. Daddy didn't think Dora was too big of an obsession until today in Sacrament meeting she was crying for Dora during a talk about not letting your kids watch too much t.v.

The day Elania discovered the top of the wipes container.

At Cole Harbour Place near our house (the same rec center that Sidney Crosby grew up playing at) there is a kiddy pool with a little slide. Elania loves it and only wants to go down the slide repeatedly for the full 2 hour public swim. At home she started trying to use a makeshift slide out of the couch cushion leaned up against the couch. Daddy broke down and found her this toy slide which she went up and down 40 or 50 times straight until she collapsed on the floor ready for bed!

Elania loves bubbles which she calls "biiiig pop!" She is especially impressed when daddy blows big ones like this. Lately, she's started popping the bubbles by trying to bite them.

Elania really likes to put on and take off bracelets but we only have a few so... she started using hair elastics instead. Sometimes she'll leave these on through the night!

This is Elania with her little ride-on horse (from Grandma and Grandpa S. for Christmas) which is just her size. She's pretty good at getting on and off now.