New Skills

The past week has been full of accomplishments for Miss Elena. First and foremost, she is now walking like a champ. In these videos she does fall down once or twice, but check out how big the feet are on the pajamas! (Sorry that they are kind of dark.)


Accomplishment #2 - Elena now has enough hair for a ponytail! Just kidding - it turns out that it is only enough for a rat-tail, but I was still excited to be able to get a rubber band around it.
She also learned how to dye Easter eggs on Monday night. That's right folks - after 5 1/2 years, Dan and I are finally trying our darndest to have regular Family Home Evenings each week. It was a lot of fun, plus she enjoyed cracking the eggs and eating the yolks this week for lunch (she's allergic to the whites).
As if all this wasn't enough, she showed me a new skill that she had learned yesterday. I left the pantry door open after I put the toaster oven away, and the next time that I turned around this was what I saw. I have no idea how she got up there. The Easy Mac box that she is standing on comes up to her waist when she is next to it.
This last pic doesn't really have anything to do with the title of the post, but I thought it was cute. Dan and I are so grateful for our little girl and we can't imagine life without her. I hope that we love each one of our kids this much or else there'll be some serious sibling rivalry issues. :)

Happy Easter weekend everyone!