Some photos from the "Big Party"

So here they are...a bunch of photos from the party. Sorry I didn't label each of them. I will try to go back and edit them later. And sorry the photos are so lousy for the most part. The lighting was terrible but at least you get the idea.

There was lots of merriment that day. First Snow White arrived and Elizabeth took her hand and pretty much did not let go of it for the whole 2.5 hours that Snow White was there.

Snow White led the girls on Treasure Hunt, a tea party, crown decorating, storytime and freeze dancing. It was a Princess dream come true for sure and pretty much came off about as well as we could have hoped for.

Will be adding more pics of the party and also of her birthday "week" celebrations.

If you weren't there, we wish you had been!

Wish Upon A Princess-Happy 4th Birthday baby! January 15

There is lots and lots to say and post. And this has been a busy week. January 15th was Elizabeth's birthday and we named the last week Elizabeth's birthday "week". She has had a few celebrations since then which culminated in yesterday's wonderous birthay celebration complete with a visit from Snow White.

Here is a photo of her with Snow White--I will get lots more pictures up in the next day or so--we have been so busy around here preparing for arrival of Princess Snow White that we have barely had time to sleep!

Holiday Party at School

A few weeks ago Elizabeth's school held their Holiday Party. The kids all learn a few songs and sing them for their parents. For 3 and 4 year olds they do an amazing job. One of these days I will figure out what the heck is going on with the video uploads on blogger and you will be able to see some cute videos of the party.

Here is Elizabeth with her teacher Miss Lindsay...


And here she is with one of the teachers' assistant (who also happens to be a qualified teacher with a Masters Degree)



And this is the third teacher in her class, Miss Ebru. If you are wondering why there are three teachers, well--there are 27 kids in Elizabeth's preschool class.


Here she is with her classmates as they gear up for their chorus of songs. It was so cute to see all of them and Elizabeth did an amazing job. She even held it together when her barette fell out of her hair. She looked at me in panic and then just held it in her hair. I thought for sure she would run up to me and ask me to fix her hair. Nope, she held it together like the professional she is.

Happy New Year Decorating the tree....and Happy Hanukkah!

Happy New Year. It's 2011. Still hard to believe.



And belated Happy Hanukkah and Merry Merry Christmas.


Hanukkah came really early this year...I think it caught us by surprise. This is the first year that Elizabeth really understood the holidays and she welcomed them with gusto.

While we may not be big into organized religions I can tell you this--Elizabeth and I DO believe in Santa Claus! Marty does not offer his opinion and remains silent on this score--same way he won't tell anyone his political leanings. But I can't resist the allure of Santa. And as my dear friend's mom, (you know who you are) told me, "you can't deny her the joys of Santa Claus!" No siree--we can't do that.

She loves the idea of Santa but interestingly she has NO desire to meet him in person. She sat on Santa's lap once when she was a year old but after that..."no way, Jose." I can't say I half blame her. Some of them do look at tad scary. Did you see the one at the mall this year? Yikes.

And presents? Bring them on. She whipped through all of her presents on about 10 minutes--but what a joyful 10 minutes that was.

















Elizabeth is in love with the idea of a Christmas tree--Every morning she just "had" to redecorate the tree and as you might imagine the tree was a little "bottom" heavy--but so cute to watch her take ownership of it. Of course she pretty much takes ownership of everything around here. I can't remember the last time I got to watch a TV show of my own while she is around.

Holiday with Friends

Here are some photos taken at the Families with Children From China annual holiday party. As you can see, the girls got hold of some lollipops and were thoroughly enjoying them. Kaila, Maria and Elizabeth manage to always make their own fun.

It was sort of an interesting experience in terms of Elizabeth's earbuds. When we walked into the party there was a lot of loud music. Elizabeth ran out of the room holding her ears, saying it was "too loud". I even lowered the db's by 10 and she still thought it was too loud. It must have had something to do with the bass. It was a DJ so we asked him to lower the music. That wasn't enough for Elizabeth so she pulled her earbuds out and spent the entire four hours of the party without them on. She really couldn't hear a thing anyone was saying--but happily it didn't seem to affect her and she had a ball all evening. I don't think her friends had any idea.

I am going to schedule an appt. with her ear doctor to ask about different strategies for dealing with situations like that.

In the meantime I am just so happy she had such a great time at the party.












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Playing around....

Just a few photos of Elizabeth playing around and donning her plastic yellow sunglasses.