Weekend Adventures

Elise discovered the little Larry the Cucumber back pack my mom had given me a few years ago. She loves it! She has been walking around the apartment wearing it for the last week or so. She finds it in the morning and gets one arm in, then needs help to get the other one, but once its on, she's a happy camper. She'll wear it for hours. Sometimes she gets it off, and will try to figure out the zipper, but inevitably wants to put it back on for while she's playing with other toys. It is adorable and just the right size! Its a little funny, because before she didn't like to have things on, like hats or shoes, but she loves having this little back pack on!

This last weekend was an adventure for our family because Elise decided to wake up at 1 am on Saturday night, and we didn't get her back to sleep and layed down until 5am. She was so tired, and screamed for most of that time, and it was definitely a challenge to remain patient for that long, at that time of night, on so little sleep, and keep trying to get her back to sleep. She has always been a challenge with naps and sleeping, although some days are better than others. I put her next to me, and she thought it was play time, so she stretched out and started tickling Logan. So I told her it was sleep time, and tried to snuggle her close. She'd get to sleep, and something would rouse her, and the screaming started again. Then I'd get her to sleep, and go to lay her down, and she'd wake up, see she was back in the crib, and the screaming started again. Our poor neighbors. The walls in our building are very thin, so I'm sure there weren't very happy people around us. But thankfully about 5 am she was sound enough asleep that I could lay her down and get a couple hours before we had to get up for church. Elise woke up and thought it was a great day, even with new snow coming down outside. She got to wear her new Spring/Easter dress and hat. I found a cute pattern and fabric and have spent the last several weeks working on this project. I'm so glad its finally done, and am really pleased with how it came out, even though the hat is on the big side (but that's ok, because it doesn't stay on long!).

We only got a couple pictures after we got home from church because we were ALL ready for nap time. What an adventure! But she sure looked cute in that dress!