Well I have finally got a lot of the pictures updated from our busy couple months! It all started with Elyssa b-day and then ran right into the Easter holiday. As you can tell from the pictures and the videos, Elyssa LOVED decorating eggs for Easter. Aunt Tonia and JT helped us color eggs this year. In the end we gave her one egg to do with what she pleased and she put it in every color we had and pretty much turned it black. It was so cracked by the time she finished dropping it into all the colors we took a picture of it and had to throw it away. It certainly was not edible!
For Easter we went to visit Nana and Pop in Lufkin, TX. Since the house is not big enough for all of us to stay at one time (Eddie’s 2 sisters and their family were there as well), we stayed at the Hampton Inn Saturday night. When we got to our room it only had a shower (was a handicap accessible room) and there is no way little princess will take a shower and allow the raindrops to fall on her head in the shower so we had to switch rooms. There were no other rooms available so they upgraded our room to a suite. It was a really nice room with a living room, kitchen, bedroom and bath! It was the perfect room for our morning Easter egg hunt! It does help that Eddie has diamond status with Hilton Hotels, so whenever there is a problem they do their best to satisfy him. He will only stay in Hilton hotels or Embassy Suites when he travels so the free nights/ stays really to rack up! In the morning Elyssa woke up to find her Easter basket on the coffee table and was soo excited that the Easter bunny had come. I had to coax her through the egg hunt. All she wanted to do was find the egg, open it and eat the “canies” (candies in Elyssa words). She only eats M&M’s so that is what all the eggs were filled with. The Easter bunny only brought her lollipops in her basket since she will take a few licks off of “pops". Her basket was over flowing with toys and such that the Easter Bunny brought her for Easter. I think she really did enjoy the morning. She even took her little egg hunt basket down to breakfast with us so she could show everyone downstairs some of her treats. She got gummy bears from the hotel desk clerk and a Bible from one of the other guests staying at the hotel. It was a very sweet morning!! After leaving the hotel, we rushed over to church where Pop was preaching and made it just in time for the start of the service. All the rest of the family sat up front, we of course had no idea how Elyssa was going to be for the service so we sat all the way in the back, just safer that way! After church we all went back to Nana and Pops and visited for awhile and then headed back to Dallas!
Eddie has been around a bit lately. He was home all last week, and only travels Thursday and Friday this week. Of course then his schedule picks up again on Sunday and who knows when his next break will be. He has another upcoming trip to Washington DC and Elyssa and I are going to try to go with him. The weather is getting so nice that a trip north will be great. Elyssa and I can do some site seeing while daddy is at work!
Elyssa is doing great! She is learning new words everyday and I don’t know where she is getting some of it. The other day she came up to me pointing to her neck saying “neck mom-mom”. Now I don’t ever remember telling her neck before, we just stick to the basics, mouth, teeth, cheeks, face, eyes, tongue..you know.. but she came up with neck on her own! She loves trains and says “choo-choo” every time we see one. When we are driving down the road she points out all the trailer trucks and say “big truck mom-mom, big truck” and tells me they have “big wheels”. She has even started talking on the phone some! She would usually just sit there and listen to the other person but she will talk now to people, especially daddy. When Eddie was away on his last trip she heard his voice and squealed into the phone “daddy, hi daddy!” It truly is the cutest thing in the world to watch as her world opens up more to her. She knows 2 colors now, pink and green, knows her name starts with the letter “E”, and can hold up 2 fingers when asked how old she is! I’m sure there is so much more I am forgetting to put on here but those are some of the things I can think of. There is just so much she is learning.
She is doing wonderfully with her potty training! We got her another new potty and this one is a fr nd she LOVES it!! She has it in the living room and will sit on it forever..lol. She even tells me know when she has to pee, of course sometimes it is a bit late but she is trying soooo hard. In fact I have not changed a “poopy” diaper in 3 days, she has done her poopy on the potty every time! She even told me at Fry’s yesterday that she had to pee-pee and held it till I got her to the potty and she went for the fist time on the big potty. Of course then we went to the Olive Garden to eat afterward and she said she had to pee, I took her and the darn thing had an auto flush that would not stop flushing, and it scared the “bajeezers” our of her!!! She would not go and of course went in her diaper on the way home. Not sure how to get past the auto flush modes on the potties!! At night it is hard, she is waking up in the middle of the night yelling “mom-mom pee-pee potty” but each time it is to late. She is usually dry in the morning (after being up and me changing her at about 4am) and goes right on the potty! I’m so proud of my little girl.
Ok enough about the potty talk. Aunt Tonia is on her way over and is going to make us dinner tonight! Aunt Tonia is just too good to Elyssa. For Easter she got Elyssa a big wagon filled with Sand box toys. Elyssa loves the wagon and pulls all of her stuff all over my living room with it.
Hope everyone had a great Easter!
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