Elodie has been talking about getting a scooter for her birthday for MONTHS! A green one! With a helmet! We didn't think she'd actually even want to ride it once she got it, but she LOVES it and is surprisingly good at it for only trying some of her friends' scooter a couple times before. Fortunately, she's slow as molasses now. I'm not ready for her to start speeding down the sidewalks of Brooklyn!
Of course, opening presents was a good ice breaker for Elodie! She strategically opened the gifts in order of smallest to biggest and got a good range of loot! Thanks everyone!
Even though we kept the party small this year, El was still kind of overwhelmed with it all! She definitely warmed up by the end of the day, but since the party started as soon as she woke up, she was super stunned to see everyone and all the decorations...
Waiting for the Birthday Girl to wake up from her nap
On Saturday, we had a small birthday party for Elodie. Just the Leibenhaut side of the family came (we wish the Tyre side could have come up too!) Still, we went all out. The next few posts are about her party day! First thing, we decorated the cupcakes. Elodie was so excited to do this and knew it meant her party was happening soon. And even a few days later, if you ask her what the best thing about her birthday party was she'll say "the sprinkles."
carefully placing the sprinkles
tasting a few...
oh, what the hey, lemme just eat the whole thing
who cares that it's only 9 am mommy! this was good!
Last weekend at Grammie and Papa's, Elodie went fishing with Daddy in his fishing boat!
In the garage!
They caught a shark!
Elodie knew just what to do with it. After catching it in the net, they put it in the cooler compartment on the boat. Usually, they just throw them back, but she wanted to show the shark to Mommy :)
We've been going to the Little Gym on Sunday mornings since September, which Elodie loves, but has only just recently become more adventurous on the bars. We noticed for months that Elodie seemed to avoid any activities that required arm strength! Over time she has become much more interested in following the teacher and the group activities but usually she still likes to just do her own thing. Well, in the last couple weeks she has become quite a little monkey on the bars. Which also translates to her being more adventurous on the playground and at home (making us nervous!)
Here is a little video clip of her in action on the bars with a little boy from the class who I think is named Miles.
