Halloween 2010

I'm a pink skeleton, Mama painted bones on my crocs too!
Thanks to Auntie Lynne for the inspiration... these are actually glow in the dark jammies she sent me.



Mi Familia!



My first lollipop, Bailey was showing me how it is done.



Nirvana!



My sister-in-law, she's a pro and a super cute princess!

My Mama shops in the boys department...

... and I like it (most of the time). Here's the deal, I like pink, so does Mama. She thinks I'm super cute in it but sometimes the boys just have better things. Case in point, every boy department carries some kind of jammies with rocket ships and planets... I love that stuff. I have never seen a pink rocket or solar system. Then you have girl slippers... boring! Get a load of these, so much fun that I can't wait to put them on. I'm just saying, my Mama would have bought them in pink... if they'd had them... but I'm glad she didn't :-).

What a weekend!

I had quite a weekend so I'm putting some pictures up... saw the Behnkens a lot, Friday Howard and Elaine came over to read me stories, Saturday we saw Howard again and Sunday night we had dinner together and I got to go to Menchie's for ice cream and cookies. That night, when Mama was singing me to sleep, I requested a "Reno song" when Mama sang "Reno loves Elliot..." I interrupted to say "Elliot loves Reno too... Elliot loves Howard... Elliot loves Elaine" and so it went.



We also gave big girl pants a try so I'm including a picture of me trying to figure out how to put them on... one even ended up on my head... not very helpful, but amusing nonetheless. I like to read magazines on the big potty.



Then Sunday we went to the Natural History Museum and saw spiders, lizards and snakes... I even touched one and the spiders didn't scare me at all.

My 2nd Birthday Part I and II

Part I - The birthday celebration started in Kentucky. It was my Grandpa's birthday on Sept. 23 so we had a pre-party for both of us. I saw all the Murphys and had a great time! They had cake. I asked for a cupcake and Mama built a "cupcake" out of banana wheat pancakes and apple butter layer in a cupcake foil. I'm not sure who she thinks she's kidding... I let her get away with this kind of stuff now and again.

Part II - We went to the beach in the morning again with our good friends. It was terrific, 90 degrees on the beach at 9am! We ate bagels, played and swam and built a sand castle. After a nice nap I woke up and again requested a cupcake (this was my birthday after all). This time Daddy got me a cupcake... the next day my poo was pink. I'm a little worried that may have been my last pink cupcake.






xoxoxox E. Starling

The Cupcake

It's my "pre" birthday!

Who gets a "pre" birthday... I'll tell you who, I do! Auntie Lynne sent me a tickle monkey that cracks me up and a cute birthday outfit. Part of which I wore to Spencer's 5th b-day party on Sunday (I'm saving the tutu part for my b-day :-)). Then I get to Spencer's awesome party and had a great time swimming and playing only to be given a new ride and super fun toy (Mama says it's "educational") to use when I left. I'm the luckiest girl!

xoxox E. Starling

Butterflies and a story about Dumbo

I went to the Natural History Museum yesterday and today with Mama and Dada. There was so much going on that we went two days in a row. We went into the butterfly pavilion and a nice girl showed me a butterfly up close... yesterday one landed on Mama. Very friendly butterflies.

Tonight Dada was reading me Dumbo for the umpteenth, but tonight, for some reason the part about the Mama elephant not being able to see Dumbo and only sing a lullaby through the cage window really got to me and I started to cry. Dada had to fast forward to the end so I could see them together again... then I was happy again! Tomorrow night we are reading Bambi... not!

Sweet dreams... xo ESM