Elizabeth

Elizabeth turned one a few weeks ago. She is such a funny little girl. These are some words I would use to describe her: reckless, ferocious (Daniel’s favorite word), destroyer (Oliver’s favorite word), cheerful, goofy, beautiful, smiley, loud. She loves baths, swimming, tackling/wrestling, Dad (she really loves Daniel), playing the “pointing game”, pat-a-cake, trot-trot, playing upstairs with the big kids, and especially getting into all the cupboards in the house and emptying everything out onto the floor.

She knows the sign-language for eat, nurse, drink, more, all done, and night-night, and she’s really good at signing to me what she wants. She is starting to say a few words: Dada, Mama, uh (uh-oh), guy, Tris (Tristan), Jesus, hi, shoes, and her most recent favorite – caw (clock). Whenever we walk into a room, she looks for a clock on the wall and then she proudly points and yells out “caw!” She also learned how to say “baby” a few months ago, but she won’t say it anymore.

She is a good sleeper, always tries to bite people, likes to growl/yell/make noise, doesn’t like me to hold Rachel (she’ll try to push her off my lap and bite her), and she has a big appetite – she is always signing “eat, eat” to me.

Rachel loves to call Elizabeth a “goofball”, and she really is – she loves to stand up and then dive down to the ground and roll around, just to make people laugh. She also recently started liking “girly” things – she loves shoes and she always pulls different shoes out of our shoe bucket and tries to put them on. The other day I found her up in Rachel’s room all by herself, trying on all of Rachel’s necklaces. She was very proud of herself because she had put on about 7 or 8 necklaces all by herself. This morning she found a necklace in my cupboard, put it on, and then walked into my closet and looked at herself in the mirror, smiling the whole time. She seems young to me to be doing that.

She recently learned how to walk, and she walks all over the place now, although she still falls a lot. She does not have very much hair, but she has beautiful dark eyes, and a darling big goofy smile with really cute dimples. She is not shy yet, and she loves showing off for people and making friends at church.

Elizabeth carrying her train. Ever since she learned how to walk, she loves carrying big heavy things around. I don't know why. She thinks she's very strong.