Merry Christmas!

Eliza spent yesterday with her cousin Gryff and her aunt and uncle. Eliza gave Gryff lots of hugs and kisses. Pretty different from their interaction last Christmas! (see above)
Hope everybody out there (what do we have, 3 readers?) has a Merry Christmas! XO, S, T & E

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Two things I forgot to mention yesterday... Eliza has also started saying "choo choo" but I think she's just repeating us and not associating the sound with trains yet. Still, it's awfully cute. And she says "shoe". Not only does she say shoe but she likes to carry our shoes around. S's shoes are almost as big as she is! Wednesday in the middle of the night I hear movement and realize I forgot to close the closet door and there's Eliza, slowly taking one shoe out of my closet at a time and putting each one on the bed. I sleepily said "come back to bed, Eliza!" I sort of thought it was a dream until Thursday morning when I woke up and there were still a couple of shoes in bed with us.

Belba!

Eliza is at such a fun age! When she wants a bite of something you're eating she says "mmmmhhh!!!" very loudly. Expose your midriff and Eliza will blow a raspberry on your stomach. She says "cheese" and poses for pictures. She hides in her fort and then pops out and says "Ta-da!" She walks around holding her shirt up and yelling "belba!" to show you her belly button. She brings you books she wants you to read to her and sometimes "reads" them back to us. She's always on the "phone" (I really don't recommend letting her borrow your real phone... mine has never been the same :)) or dancing around to her CDs. ~T

Oh Christmas Tree!

Since our last installment we've been getting into the Christmas spirit. We picked out and decorated our tree, visited the lights on 37th Street and met Santa for the 1st time. Eliza loves Christmas lights and has learned to say tree. (She's also learned to say car, cheese, papa, and belly button, which sounds like "belba.") Eliza had no interest in sitting on Santa's lap, so, rather than traumatize her, we made it a family shot, which looks pretty hilarious and awkward. At least she looked cute! ~T