I have been spending so much time watching William play baseball or swim in the big pool. Now it's my turn to do some activities and he gets a chance to sit and watch me. He liked taking pictures at dance class and even a few movies. Daddy came with to our last class to get a couple of nice videos of me. Mommy put them to a song sung by Laurie Berkner, my favorite singer! You can also see me at my swimming lessons doing a poem that I really like about a turtle called Tiny Tim.
Me and Eliana had a blast with our new "Soak and Splash!" And I just had a little too much fun because I ran on the slip and slide and bumped my head. That's all I need to tell you about that. But there's something else I need to tell you. And I had another little too much fun because almost every time my knee started hurting. And we got to use it two times today!
We've been busy this summer. William's been playing baseball, although half the games have been rained out so far. He's also started piano lessons. He has had four lessons and already he is using both hands and the pedal! A couple more classes and he'll get to start playing on the white keys. Here's a video of his most recent song:
Eliana is following William around a lot lately. Unfortunately, she isn't able to go to his birthday parties, or on the ball field, or in the big swimming pool (today was also his first day of swimming lessons.) But soon she'll start dance class and her own swimming lessons. And her friend Katie often comes for play dates. Katie is also two, which Eliana will gladly tell you. Ellie especially loves arts and crafts. She's very handy with her scissors, so keep a close eye on all your important papers when you're around her!
William's class got to do chapel for the school last week. They did a little play about how a shepherd takes care of his sheep. William was a sheep. He also got to read the day's bible verse into the microphone. The whole class did a great job. Of course, when he came home with sheep ears, Eliana wanted some too. We made a short video of William singing "Jesus is my shepherd." Eliana added the "baas." They were both feeling a little silly, as you will see.
Today I made a couple movies for you. In the first one, I only wanted you to hear me sing the ABCs. I didn't want the camera to see me, so I was hiding. In the second one, I was driving my car and not worried at all about the camera, so you can see how cute I am. Enjoy!
My godparents, Adam and Leah, both had birthdays this week. I wanted to wish them a happy birthday. William wanted to get in on the videotaping, too. He can be so silly sometimes! He's been especially goofy tonight since he got back from his friend William N's birthday party at Space Aliens. What a great week for birthdays! I hope you like our video.
One of Eliana's grandpas (Poppops) looks a lot like Santa Claus, which was a little confusing to her this year. So when she got balloons for her birthday from Grandma and Grandpa, she insisted they were from Santa Claus. Really, what's the difference? :)
Eliana is still in love with the Raffi song, Baby Baluga. Her new favorite word from the song is "happy" so she spent a good chunk of her day jumping and dancing around the house singing "happy!" Enjoy this video of our happy girl :0)
We were having fun at Grandma Barb's house. Who was there is Tiernan, Caedmon, Brayan, Ariella, Auntie Dawn and Nathan. We played outside first. We played football outside and a war outside. Then we had a fight outside. Hi-ya! Then we went by the river and throwed sticks and pinecones, plinks** and rocks in the river. Tiernan went out with me, Dad, Grandpa Ron and Nathan to the river. Then we had to come in before it was dinner time. Dinner was a big hit! We jumped on the bed in the closet [Leah's old bedroom]. We took our shirts off because we were monkeys. We were humans, really. You'll see the video of us jumping on the bed after this blog.
The end. That's a true story.
*NOTE: Mumans are monkey-humans
**NOTE: Plinks are little tiny rocks that say "plink" when they land in the water
All the new things I can say, like "turkey."
That Mommy can take videos of me that I love to watch.
My baby cousin "Jackie" who I could watch for hours on the computer.
My blankie and nukie.
The nursery at our new church that is a lot of fun.
Mama, Daddy, William and all the extended family who loves me.
My favorite books, like Uncle Michael's Pooh books and Baby Baluga.
Wall-e.
You can see me singing Baby Baluga and saying "Eve-ah" in these short videos:
