Trick or Treat!

Grampa and his Lady Bug
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Happy Halloween. Mommy and Daddy picked out this Lady Bug costume from Target. When we went to Target to pick out a costume, I didn't like any of the ones where stuff was on my head but for some reason I didn't mind this headband.

We went to church this morning then came home and I took a really, really long nap. Almost four hours! Then I got my costume on and we went over to visit Miss Betty. She gave me my first ever candy. I didn't know what it was so I really didn't pay much attention.

Next we traveled to visit Gramma and Grampa. We had dinner at their house and then Gramma went with us to her neighbor's houses and Mommy said, "Trick or treat" and they gave us more candy. Mommy opened a piece and showed me what candy was and I spent the rest of the night trying to reach in my pumpkin bowl to get MORE! I have discovered that I like candy!

Visiting the neighbors!

Losing my antennae!

After three pieces of candy and visiting three neighbors' homes, we left Gramma and Grampa to go see Mom-mom. She gave me fruit snacks! I LOVE fruit snacks.

We visited a couple of her neighbors that Mommy knew when she was growing up and introduced me to them. It was the first time I had met any of them. They were really nice and they gave me candy, too! While we were there, Aunt Julie, Uncle David and Cousin Shawn came and we got to see their neat costumes. Halloween is a lot of fun!

After we left Mom-mom's we stopped by Pop-pops. There Gramma Mary gave me yummy goldfish crackers! I love Goldfish, too! I'm not sure why everybody is giving me all these wonderful treats but I like it! I should dress up as a lady bug more often!

While we were at Pop-pop's I played with some of his toys. It was fun. As soon as I got home, I checked out all my candy in my pumpkin bowl.

I had to inventory because Mommy and Daddy are on a diet and I don't want them sneaking any of it when I'm not looking! It was a great day and a great night. I passed out pretty quickly as soon as my head hit the pillow. Oh wait, that's right, I pulled all the stuffing out of my pillow. Oops. Yes, I'm still a mischief-maker. But I'm a cute mischief-maker!

Book Worm

Reading my book
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Yesterday Mommy was sick with a headache all day. I did my best to stay out of her hair. Today, Daddy, Mommy and I went to the gym. I played in the babysitting room until they were done working out. After we got home from the gym, I took a nap. Then I had lunch.

Mommy has been limiting my t.v. watching especially now that I have a new play room with lots of space to play! One of my new favorite toys though is this glider! I love climbing up here and saying "swing!" and then pushing myself back and forth. Here you can see me with my book. I love to read the pictures!

Over the River? Try Over the Bay!

Headed over the bridge to visit Miss jamie
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Today, we packed up and took a trip to see Miss Jamie. Miss Jamie graduated with Daddy in high school. She has three kids and her youngest, Jessi, is my age. She was born in November, too! So today, I got to go to Jessi's house and she shared her toys with me! Mommy forgot to take pictures, silly Mommy! She did take some pictures going over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

And she also took pictures coming home. The leaves have been changing color for a while and they trees are all so beautiful. Mommy said she wanted to take some pictures of how pretty it is. She only had her phone to do it real quick while she was driving so they're not the greatest pictures but you get the idea!

Naked Lasagna

Naked Lasagna Eating
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So Mommy made this great lasagna for some friends and she was trying to give the leftovers to some people she thought would like it and need it but she hasn't been able to. She and Daddy are on a diet and can't eat it so she gave some to me. I love it! But the only condition for me eating it is that I have to be nakey! I don't mind that one bit! After I eat lasagna I get a bath so it's a win-win!

After my bath, I put on warm footed-pajamas and brought Mommy my little couch. I kept trying to put it up on the sofa myself but it was just too hard. She helped me put it up there and I climbed right on in it and sat watching the "goodnight" episode of Blue's Clues before bed. Doesn't it look like fun?

"To the Moon, Alice!"

Playing with my fridge toy
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So I've finally ended my barrage of mischief on Mommy finally because she was threatening to send me to the moon if I kept it up. Speaking of the moon. That's almost all I say anymore. "Mooooonn" If I see the moon anytime of day, if I see a picture of a moon or if Mommy even draws a moon I can be heard saying "Mooooonnnn!!!" Daddy even bought me these great pajamas. He said they're probably meant for boys but I don't care because I love pointing to the moons on them and saying "mmmoooonnnn" over and over and over again.

Right now, I also like to say star, swing, in-out and hot. I say "hot" when something comes out of the microwave. I say "swing" whenever I'm near the dining room window because I can see my swing from there. I love swinging and I remind everyone often.

Fast Friends

Fast Friends
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So today started out by taking Daddy's car to the collision center to get it fixed. We were gonna go over Miss Jamie's house but by the time we got done with Daddy's car it got too late. So the rest of the day was filled with a lot of playing. I got to play with my doggies and in my new play room and I got to play outside. I love my doggies and they love me. It's a match made in heaven.

Please skip this post if you have a weak stomach!

Pooop...I mean Cheeessseee
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That's not chocolate on my hands, it's poop. I've been into this habit now where I like to remove my diaper at all costs. This allows me to get anything feeling uncomfortable off of my butt! However, this creates one big problem. I poop especially when I nap.

Mommy put me down for a nap but while I was fighting going to sleep, I pulled off my pants and diaper. I woke up later to find poop and decided to play with it till Mommy found me. She was pretty upset because I did this yesterday, too, it just wasn't as bad. I don't know what the big deal is, I mean, it's just poop, right?

It's a good thing we went to Bible study earlier today. I think Mommy's gonna need a lot of prayer if I keep this up.

Gramma Comes for a Visit

Gramma pushing me on the swing
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Gramma hadn't seen our new living room yet! So she came over tonight for dinner and to hang out with me. I let her push me on my new swing set. She's very good at it. You'd think she had practiced or something.

Crunch!

That had to hurt
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Daddy was coming home from an errand when a bunch of cars in front of him stopped short. He said he couldn't stop his car in time but was frustrated because he felt like he had plenty of room and plenty of time. He just doesn't know what went wrong. Oh well, thankfully nobody was hurt. Mr. Jeff and Miss Kristin came over to have dinner and play games with us. I always like when they come over. I like to flirt with Mr. Jeff.

Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It's Off to Target We Go!

The New Couch is a Hit!
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So after Caleb left today, we traveled to a couple of different Targets looking for pillows and things to dress up then new living room. Mommy and I found these great pillows on clearance and the new sign hanging above the sofa on sale! I think we got some good bargains. Mommy said she now feels like she has a big girl room. I have my play room so I feel like a big girl, too!

Here I am in the picture, rearranging the pillows already. I have no problems making myself feel at home.

The Long Awaited Arrival!

New Sofa is here
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It's HERE! I go down for a nap and I have no sofa. I wake up and here it IS! It's just like the one I saw at the store on Tuesday! I'm so excited. I love climbing up on it and it has these great feet rests that come up. It's so much fun to sit on or jump up and down on. I know I'm gonna have some fun on this thing! Yay!

Special Rocks

Awaiting the arrival of the new sofa
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So this morning I woke up and found out what all the fuss was about last night. Mommy and Daddy threw away our couches! Mommy cleaned the rug and even shampooed it with a big machine. The carpet was all clean. Everything was clean. The dining room, the living room and even my new playroom.

Caleb came over and we had fun running up and down the hall and dancing circles in the living room with no sofas! Then we had some snack and we decided to sit on the new clean rug and eat! It's gotta get broken in sometime.

Mommy then changed us, got our socks, shoes and coats on and packed our bags. We got out to the car to go somewhere and Mommy forgot Daddy still had one of the car seats in HIS car!

Mommy took us out back to let us play for a while and she slipped back inside to get the doggies to come out and play with us. While she was doing that I found some special rocks that I brought to show Mommy when she came back out.

Turns out these were no ordinary rocks, it was dog poop! Mommy quickly picked me up and got me inside and washed my hands with soap and water before she let me back outside to play again. I don't think I'll be picking up any more special rocks anytime soon because I like to play outside and I really don't like coming back inside.

Got Goat?

Elaina Faking out the Goats at Kinder
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This morning Mommy and I got packed up and headed to Aunt Jocie's house. Uncle Louis is still feeling bad from the car accident so we went with Verity and Bianca over to Kinder Park. They have this great playground. Aunt Jocie brought rags to wipe off all the rain on the slides from yesterday.

Then we went to see the goats...



And the pig...

And this crazy turkey.

After the park we went back to Aunt Jocie's house where I knocked Mommy's Jenny Craig Lunch on the floor. I was just getting tired and cranky. After we left to come home, I fell asleep in the car and but I woke up as soon as we got home and didn't want to go back to sleep and nap.

Mommy and I then took off for Target to do a little shopping. Daddy got off of work a little early and met us a Target. We did some shopping together. Well, Mommy shopped and I climbed on the shelves and sat on the endcaps. Daddy got to supervise me and tell Mommy what he liked and didn't like about the things she was picking out.


When we got home, we had dinner and then my parents trapped me in my room! Daddy started doing something in the spare room and Mommy was working in the living room on something. They had me blocked so I couldn't get to her. I didn't like that one bit. The next thing I knew Daddy was taking my crib apart!?! They moved me back into my old nursery room along with my furniture. Mommy said that from now on I was going to be sleeping in my old nursery but playing in my new play room. I now have TWO rooms of my very own! Oh boy!

Thank You, Lord, for Crumple Zones

Uncle Louis' Car
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Uncle Louis was headed to work this morning when a man pulled right out in front of him trying to beat Uncle Louis' car to get to an exit ramp. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt.

Uncle Louis' airbag deployed. I cut his face and gave him a terrible bruise on his chest but it saved his life.

The guy's Ford Explorer was totaled, too.

Thankfully both men walked away from this accident. A little shaken but none the worse for wear!

Curiouser and Curiouser

Curious Mind
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So my mischief for this morning is grabbing Mommy's drink that she keeps on her nightstand at night while she sleeps and dumping it all over her bed. A lot of my trouble-making relates to open drinks. When are these people going to learn not to keep open drinks within my reach? Sheesh.

It rained all day today and I couldn't go outside and swing. I was bummed. But I did get to watch a lot of Blue's Clues which Mommy has been trying to keep me from watching lately. So that was good.


Towards the afternoon the sun started to come out for a little bit. My doggies and me sat by the front door keeping watch over the neighborhood. We had a good time together.

Splash Down!

Well, I found it! My trouble making for today! Mommy made this big, beautiful pitcher of red drink for breakfast. She then walked Daddy to the door to go to work. While she was in the living room, I went into the kitchen and tried to help myself to the drink. I didn't do so good today either. I didn't realize how heavy it was and I dropped it all over the floor. Mommy wasn't too happy especially when I took off running leaving a trail of red foot prints behind me.

I got to spend the rest of the day at Miss Jessi's house playing with Caleb. Then we went to a store with all these sofas, chairs and tables in it. I had a big time jumping all over the place and testing everything out.

We came home and had dinner together and then Mommy went to music practice at church. I wasn't too happy about that. I really wanted to go with her. I refused to go to bed until she got home and tucked me in. Daddy kept trying to get me to go to sleep but I wasn't having any of it until I saw my Mommy. Then I fell fast asleep. It was a great day.

Mischief Maker

Pulled her PJs into the bathtub with her
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I'm getting smarter and smarter every day. You might think that's a good thing but Mommy begs to differ. She says that my curiosity is getting me into trouble. I had to get a quick bath this morning because I woke up in a huge mess in my diaper. It's easier on my sore bottom if I get a bath. While Mommy stepped out to find my towels, I decided to reach over the tub and pull my pajamas in the tub with me.

After Mommy's Jenny Craig meeting this morning we went to the gym for about an hour. While I was playing in the babysitting room, I found an open bottle of Gatorade. I tried to drink out of it all by myself but I ended up dumping it all over the carpet. When Mommy was done her workout, she came in and found me soaking wet and paper towels all over the floor. Mommy said, "Elaina is like the ocean, you can't turn your back on her for a second!" I wonder what trouble I can get into tomorrow!

Bowie Ham

Grammy Glasses
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Grampa is going away on a big hunting trip and he wanted to see me before he left. We went to Gramma and Grampa's house for dinner tonight. I got to do big playing at their house. I never get tired of running around and sitting in their basket on the landing of their steps. As long as I fit, I'm gonna keep doing it. After dinner I became fascinated with Gramma's glasses. I decided to try them on. What do you think? Are they me?

Happy 62nd Birthday, Pop-pop!

Happy Birthday Pop-pop
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Today is Pop-pop's birthday. Aunt Jocie organized a get-together at Centennial Park with everyone. Aunt Julie and her family couldn't make it. I missed not playing with cousin Shawn.

It was a little chilly at first. Temperatures have been in the 50's and 60's. I was a bit of a cranky pants but that did not stop us from having a great time. See the highlights below! *remember you can always click on any of the pictures to see more at flickr.com*