In November we enjoyed the start of fall and lots of local fun, with no big travel. It was great to get to enjoy our home and all of Elsa's wonderful creative play. Elsa really enjoyed going for walks and would call a pile of leaves of the ground a "leaf forest". Below is a collection of leaves she picked up on a walk.
We continue our wonderful cooking projects, with some kind of cooking together almost every night. Her favorite thing to make is cakes, but she did do a great job making her first pumpkin pie.
Elsa went to her first birthday party at "Pump It Up" - basically a warehouse full of inflatable bouncy houses. She got to go on a rock wall - it was pretty cool.
Elsa and Liam are starting to play together. Liam constantly follows Elsa and she will include him in her imaginary play. Elsa likes to make her corner crawler area into new and exciting things, like a boat to Albania (one of her classmates at day care went to Albania recently), a car wash, a Halloween store, or a house for her imaginary friends Hala and Sala. This is Elsa and Liam sailing to Albania.
One of the new favorite games of Elsa and Liam is be a monster and crawl all over Mommy. They play this game a lot.
They also do a lot of dress up. Liam gets to be fun things, like pirate flowers and Elsa is often a Fairy Princess who likes to bike or scoot.
Elsa is also a helpful big sister, like when she helped Liam with the slide.
Liam loves climbing things and now climbs all of Elsa's stools. One night he decided to climb up the bathroom sink and eat soap.
The best is when they fall asleep together. That is something to be thankful for.
We had a great Thanksgiving in Millbrae, where I dressed Elsa, Liam and myself in matching Hanna Anderson outfits. I love matching dress up, and I am glad Elsa does too!
Elsa had a lot of fun instructing everyone at her Monster School.
