Shoe Betcha!

Elli loves shoes. She often tries to put them on herself and when she gets frustrated she brings them to whoever is in the room with her. I think she gets the shoe thing from me! :) Here are some pictures of her with my shoe on from yesterday. It's a pretty regular thing for her to walk around with just one shoe on lately.

We enjoyed a lazy 4th of July yesterday. Our church had a short service, dinner and fireworks. It was so much fun. I think some of Elli's best friends are at our church. She loves all of the 'older' girls and loves that they follow her around. Elli did awesome with the fireworks. She was squealing and didn't act like the noise, cold or rain bothered her one bit. We came back to our house after church and had fun with sparklers and snap pops. Elli actually threw down several snap pops and cracked up each time they light up.

Below is our attempt at capturing our photo during the fireworks display.

On Friday we headed to our first visit to the zoo. We had a lot of fun. The kids were great. Grace was so fun...she was SO excited to see the penguins. Elli enjoyed petting the horse the most, I think. All the kids LOVED the train ride. Owen smiled the whole ride.

Elli and the elli-phants! :)

Elli's other loves right now:

• throwing things


• feeding herself


• sitting on her stool that Papaw made her


• climbing up on anything that she can (i.e. her crib, changing table, ottoman, etc.)


• animal books


• saying 'tickle, tickle, tickle'