Almost Birthday!

The old blog has been pretty quiet lately because we've been pretty busy! Tuesday we had an excellent swim lesson. The instructor has started letting go of Elizabeth while she's in her back float, and she floats herself for a few seconds. Then we went to go see Great Lisa, who had arrived in town for her summer holiday. It's so fun that she's getting to see Elizabeth so often, and that she's so much bigger and more fun each time she visits.

Then on Wednesday, the happiest day ever, Becca flew in to town! She and Kate were supposed to be on the same flight, which was awesome. Except that around 3am their time, their flight got canceled. Becca was able to book herself on the flight to LAX that landed around the same time as their original flight, but poor Kate spent almost the entire day at O'Hare, waiting to get finally put on a flight. While we usually avoid driving up to LAX to retrieve visitors, it was worth it for our Auntie Becca, and plus the timing was perfect to scoop her up and then jet off to Bottega Louie for lunch together. Ellie behaved herself (mostly) and thankfully, the restaurant is pretty loud. Last time Becca was here Ellie was only nine weeks old, and all she really did was lay around and cry. Now she's a real person! Crawling, waving, clapping, eating portobello mushroom fries!

Today we hung out and relaxed in the morning and then headed over to finally see Auntie Kate, who'd arrived around 10:30 last night (but thankfully, got into Santa Ana instead of LA.) Ellie showed off her crawling skills and then clapped for herself when she'd launched her chubby buns across the room. Mom got some alone time with her little babydoll while the rest of us went and got our hooves done, which was incredibly sweet of her. Too bad Becca was loud and mouthy and we embarrassed ourselves at the salon by laughing too hard. THEN we went and bought fabulous fake eyelashes for the upcoming costume party. I'm feeling ready to go! Now if only we had the food all bought and the house cleaned. It'll happen in time, I suppose.

Tomorrow it's time for some serious party prep... after tumbling class of course!