Eliana, the funny girl...

Eliana has started the funny and girly things they do at this age. Below you will see just how funny she is. She plopped this on her head one day and walks around with it on looking out through the opening, quite hilarious. She has started to put the barbie dolls, stuffed animals, whatever into the bassinette and covers them with blankets. She feeds her elmo and cookie monster stuffies with food she is eating and even puts the drinks in their mouths, cute eh?
I remember these days from her sister. They are gentle and quietly playing on their own, girls rule...

Eliana has had abit of the sniffles and cough this week so we have her bundled up for her ride in our cul de sac today as you will see in the pictures below. She loves her dora trike, the dogs, and daddy too. She had been home quite often this week compared to normal, although we did get in the normal visit with grandma yesterday.

Her cognitive and motor skills are truly incredible. In the picture below she has learned to stack the cups on her own. She did this with her sister yesterday, to Kat's amazement, and alot of thanks to her daddy for this game he plays with her. I have said this before and will say it again, Eliana continues to amaze us everyday. She also sings the song " have you ever seen the rain" version by rod stewart and her favourite part is "i wanna know". I think music has had a tremendous impact on her. She truly adores music and a favourite since in my womb was her sister's piano playing songs of "fur elise" and rihanna's song (sorry don't know the name). We smile alot nowadays...

Show Me the Love...

Eliana is a hugger. She loves to hug her little friends and sometimes their mothers. She is not so good with men (thats ok with us), except daddy, of course. Lately she has been dishing them out and one of her little friends, named Ty, sees her coming down the park path and stops and shouts "STOP" with his hand out. Its quite funny and we moms have a laugh cuz Eliana does not understand of course yet and Ty being 3 does. Here she is below giving hugs to Kira and her mom, all at once today. Yes, Eliana is all about showing the love. The girls had fun today and always get along very well.

The last couple months have been quite a developmental one for Eliana. She has stopped her naps for good and is handling it well. Me on the other hand am doing alot of things at once during the day to get by but its been challenging and fun. Eliana has added Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Mary had a Little Lamb to her songlists. She recently viewed a Sesame Street episode starring Tilly and the Wall, where they are tap dancing to the alphabet, so guess what, she is copying their feet movement but it looks like she is marching in place, I will try to transfer it from my video to the blog. Love it.

It is remarkable her ability to articulate the words and with such strong memory skills. She says things like, daddy, are you ok?, how are you?, what happened?, I love you, where are you going?, what are you doing?, next it will be the famous "are we there yet?". Its been a word adventure for her and she is like a sponge. She is able to understand majority of what I ask of her in Cantonese and respond accordingly and her daddy also in hebrew.


At the park with her Dora trike. It is getting colder with that wind !!