Playdate with Emily

Eliana had a nice playtime with Emily.

This is Emily, she is very sweet and very busy working on the laptop, clever girl!!
She is a couple months older than Eliana

Sharing, nice work girls!!

Leaps and Bounds...

At fourteen months Eliana we could say seems like she is "20" years of age. This little girl has transformed into a mini version of "mum", in a nice way. She is able to put words together like, "bye da da" or "hi jea jea". Eliana is quite a determined toddler as she knows what she wants now and shows her dislike thru a mixture of using words and short bursts of screams, ha ha. She has handled the three languages very well and learning to speak and does so quite clearly. She has even learned to say her name , "ana" she sort of slurs the first part but recognizes herself in pics. Eliana's fourth molar has made an appearance making a total of 12 (we had a nice month break between) but it seems like she is gnawing on more things so I guess more to come soon.

We could say Eliana is a creature of comfort and enjoys her routine and is very structured with her time. Currently she attends playgroup on Monday and Fridays, to the mall on Wednesdays and will be starting some playdates with her friends on either Tuesdays or Thursdays. On Fridays when daddy gets home we head out to Lansdowne Mall for her to play at Toys R Us and enjoy a pizza dinner at the food court. Eliana picked up one of those Vtech laptops while shopping at Toys r Us, to bring home yesterday as she is banging the death out of her mums. This weekend we have a big family dinner at grandmas to celebrate the chinese New Year of the Ox. Happy New Year to All.

The After Cut...

I managed to do abit of shaping to the "cut" of her bangs while she sat in her high chair but it didn't last long. So this is the result, so far...

First Haircut, January 13th

Well, it was a snip of her front ponytail by mummy and that was it. Eliana would not let me finish shaping the front bangs but I think it did the trick of removing all that hair in her eyes, for now.
She now looks like a toddler, it was one of those "aww" moments that your baby has grown up...

Nice Visit

Aunte J and Kira stopped by on Monday for a nice visit. Unfortunately Eliana was not feeling well (teething symptoms) and was a fusspot most of the time but we managed to get some play time in. Thanks for coming down to see us.

Back to Playgroup, nice...

Eliana is alot more stable at walking now. Today at playgroup was like chasing a little squirrel, she definately knows what she wants to play with. She got to see one of her friends again, Frankie (her actual name is Frances) born two weeks after Eliana on Dec.1. She was there today and walking now too! They had a great conversation and a lovingly stare down too! Nice to be back at playgroup...

Still after the red balls, her other hand has a hold of one too!!

Taking on the slide (with daddy's help)

On the Tonka truck that she loves being pushed by mommy

Happy New Year's Dinner at Grandmas

Eliana with Pao Pao, eating of course

Playing with a table type music toy that was once played with by her brother/sister/cousins over 20 years ago (grandma kept it for whatever reason)