Happy Birthday, Great Grandma Ruth Elaine!!!We wish we could be there to share your special day with you! If Elayna were there, she would give you a BIG kiss… like this! We love you!!!!! xoxoxoxox

Somehow these pictures never made it to the blog. They were taken just after nap (although her hair does look this curly and crazy often!) on April 13th. She is definitely getting mommy’s curls, don’t you think? 🙂

We took advantage of a gorgeous afternoon yesterday, and went to the Japanese Gardens here in Portland. I hadn’t been since I was young, and Jake and Elayna had never been. It was so beautiful and quiet there. Even Elayna was fairly quiet and took in the beauty of the place! Her absolute favorite thing…

One of my absolute favorite things to do with Elayna is to dance around and be silly. She prefers to do this to her CDs (thanks, Great Grandma, for the newest ones!), but she will make do even with whatever comes on the radio. Her favorite songs currently are: Old MacDonald (to which she sings,…

I dressed Elayna in her cute little Adidas outfit, complete with new (to us) white Adidas tennis shoes, and let her run around outside. About 20 seconds in, she fell over onto an oil spill in a parking space. Ah, the joys. We were on our way out to run errands, but we rushed back…