Our Sunday

This past Sunday at Church, Elizabeth had the oppurtunity to sing in the children's choir, and she did great!  She was the youngest one to participate, and she seemed to really like it, and knew all thewords to the songs :)  I was soooo proud of her!

After Church, I took her to Monkey Joe's, one of her favorite places.  It's an indoor playground type place.  Very noisy and crowded, but Miss E loves it...

The Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy made a joint appearance!

We had a great Easter! Elizabeth got to go on two more Easter egg hunts, one at Church, and one later on at Grandma and Grandpa's with her cousins. Also, Elizabeth woke up to find an Easter basket full of goodies from the Easter Bunny :)

They had a couple of bunnies at Church for the kids to pet, too...

Hunting for yet more chocolate at the Grandparents'...

And in other really big news (to us, anyway!), right before bedtime tonight, Elizabeth's loose tooth came out!! Yep, at the age of 4 years and almost 9 months, Miss E has lost her first baby tooth...gulp!! She needs to stop all this growing up stuff...:) She excitedly put her tiny little tooth under her pillow, and the Tooth Fairy dutifully showed up and left her a silver dollar. So it was pretty busy around here on Easter, with Easter Bunnies and Tooth Fairies coming and going...So much fun, and a vast improvment from last easter when poor E was sick and we stayed home most of the day.

Oops, missed a day...

Well, so much for blogging every day in January...I missed yesterday. I had every intention of blogging after Elizabeth went to bed, but I fell asleep along with her :) Oh well, I'll keep trying...

We had a great Sunday. Our friend Maria took E to Church, so I got a couple of hourse to myself :) The only problem was, Maria brought Elizabeth back about a half hour later than I was expecting. My mind automatically went into "worst possible case scenario" mode. Maria doesn't use a cell phone, so I couldn't call her. By the time they came back, I was convinced they were both unconscious in a hospital, with no way to identify E or how to reach me. Ugg...Let's just say, I was sooooo happy when I saw them pull up to Maria's house, where I was waiting.

Later, my mom and I took Elizabeth to a children's show that my mom had baught tickets for. It wasn't exactly what we expected, and was kind of slow, but E did ok, and it was fun to get out to do something different. Afterward, we went to my parents', where E got to ride her bike (still no snow here- amazing!!) and play with the neighbors' kids.

All in all, it was a great weekend!

Christmas 2011 recap

We had an awesome Christmas! Santa, and my family, were very good to us, as always :) On Christmas Eve, we went to a 4pm Church service with my Mom, my brother, and my nephews. My Dad stayed home to watch the Patriots game, lol, and my sister-in-law had a bad cold, so she stayed home to rest. After Church we all went to my parents' house and had a delicious dinner. Elizabeth and I went back to our apt, and E fell asleep around 9:30. Santa showed up around midnight. He made lots of unintentional noise, fumbling around in the dark, but luckily didn't wake Miss E up...:) In the morning, I actually woke up before E did, at about 6:45 (don't ask me why), and E got up around 7:30. She was very happy and relieved to see her stocking stuffed with presents, and that Santa had remembered her. She said, "Mommy, I didn't make the naughty list!" I didn't get any pictures from this part of the day (not sure why), but we had a nice, relaxing morning at home, just the two us while I enjoyed my coffee and watching Elizabeth play with her new toys. In the afternoon, we went to my parents', where Elizabeth got her most awesome present from my mom...her first big girl bike!!!

The rest of the day was spent hanging out with the family, eating lots of delicious food, playing with new toys...

and of course, riding her beautiful new bike!!! And check out her cool, hot pink new Dora Helmet to go with it...:)