Milestone

Eliza wore panties to school today and had zero accidents! I think this is her first full day with no pull ups, so I wanted to make a note of it. ;)

Chicago

We spent last week in Chicago. We went to the aquarium, the Sears Tower, Hancock Tower, navy pier, "the bean", of course some famous buildings and 4 different museums! And I managed to visit 6 law schools at the same time. Eliza loved the subway, the fountains, almost everything really. Oh, and she and I rode a huge ferris wheel together (she wanted me to ride it with her). I hate that sort of thing and thought I was doing a pretty good job of playing it cool when she said, "Don't be scared, Mom!" Again, I think she inherited the dare devil gene from her father.

Grammy's Birthday Weekend

A couple of weeks ago we headed to the beach for my mom's birthday. We had a great time! E is a dare devil like her father, and she and Papa had a great time riding the little roller coasters. She begged to go on the big roller coaster with the guys but we told her she had to wait until she was 5.

Dress up

So it's been a while since our last post... we haven't been doing much, other than swimming, going out for icecream and playing dress up. Also the ever popular "I your mom" game. (She loves to pretend to be the mom and make us pretend to be her babies.) She's getting pretty into dressing up and gets girlier by the day. For the past three days I've been asked to paint her face to look like a cat. She also tried on my grad school hood and my wedding dress at one point. On another note, I think the days of me picking her birthday party themes are over. Her birthday is still 3 months away and she's already told me she wants to be a princess and have a pink cake. Not exactly what I had in mind, but I guess it's her day. Or it will be. In three months. Not that that prevents her from saying "my birthday's coming up" every day. :)

Question of the Day

E: "Mama, I have two beds!"
Me: "Yes, you are lucky girl."
E" "Mama, where does lucky come from?"

Try explaining that to a 2 year old! :)

Is it Christmas time already?

Eliza has become obsessed with Special K Red Berries. She used to call it her "strawberry cereal" but lately she's started referring to it as "Christmas trees." I really don't understand how the brown flakes look like Christmas trees to her, but apparently they do. She also eats this all natural sliced turkey almost every day, but she thinks she doesn't like turkey. She calls it ham instead. So yesterday I found myself at the store saying, "So we need more ham and Christmas trees?" It's like we've got our own bizarre little language around here.

On another note, out of the blue this morning during our commute, Eliza says, "Mom, where did I come from? When I was born?" She definitely keeps things interesting, to say the least.

Questions

Eliza is definitely in a questioning phase. She's been asking "why" about 50 times a day for the past couple of months. And she's starting to stump me. The other day she asked why paint is wet. Yesterday at the gas station she asked where gas comes from. When I tried to explain she said "but I can't see the gas?" She's also starting to get a sense of time and space. She'll talk about "last week" and "tomollow." She'll say "Thursday is Miss Wendy day!" (gymnastics) and "I see Mr. Craig tomollow" (music). The other night at bedtime she said "Mom, what time it is?" And when I ask her to do things, she says "I'm pretty busy" or "in a minute, Mom."