Category: Elia

Halloween for Elia began with wanting to be a chef Belle for her costume long before Halloween, she has either long term memories or great memories of pictures of us in catering clothing with her as a chef, that she associates Halloween with being a chef. However, when she saw Curie’s Wonder Woman costume, and Erin’s fascination for Wonder Woman after the movie, she also wanted to be Wonder Woman; and because the costume we got Curie was too small, we had two Wonder Women. Elia wore her costume for the school parade and had a great time playing with her sword and shield, and posing in her costume at home. On Halloween though, she wanted to be Belle, and so she was Belle for Halloween. Continue reading “Elia November 2017”

The longest stretch that Elia wanted to wear her Belle dress was something like 45 days with a few gaps in the middle when it was not practical like birthday party at a jump place or trampoline place (BTW the only other outfit that she would choose to wear was her Batman one – teachers say for Elia every day is dress up day); we talked about whether we had to do something about it but decided that it was a phase and she would decide at some point to change her mind. Much like Curie with Natalie and Chloe driving her flamingo dress to be Elsa, Continue reading “Elia October 2017”

We have been reading a lot more to the kids recently (studies show that reading to kids is one of the best indicators of success in school later on), and Elia has been having us read more and more difficult books, not because she wants to hear the story necessarily, but because they are books the Curie has had us read to her. Most recently she has had us read the chess book that we got to start teaching the kids chess. She has enjoyed playing checkers her own way at Cracker Barrel stacking checkers and taking from each other, but recently Albert bought a nice checker set and began teaching Elia to play. She still is guided to where to move her pieces, but she loves to win. Continue reading “Elia September 2017”

Elia loves to be silly and we can’t remember if this is just being a three year old, or if this is just indicative of Elia being Elia. The fact is that she cracks us up, and more importantly and even more funny is that she cracks herself up. And while it is often the funny faces she is making or the way she is acting, more often than not, it is the funny things she says. The other day Albert was talking about peeing and Elia said “Daddy! That is potty talk!” She has a fantastic imagination telling us she shoots fireworks from her hands, or takes care of her “baby.” Continue reading “Elia August 2017”