More Elizabeth outfits

While we were skiing, Bob's parents (Parker's Gigi and Papa) came to stay with her. Gigi brought a tote back stuffed with material and patterns to make Elizabeth more outfits. Parker took a break from ballet-ing to check it out.

The results:
A Party Dress in plaid taffeta with matching headband, and matching shoes. I had to crop this photo because Parker is wearing red glittery high heels along with her nightgown.

A Cow Girl Outfit - With a denim printed top and denim skirt w/ leather (suede?) fringe and glittery red rickrack and matching boots and hat. The hat was 'store bought'...Gigi is such a slacker.

And yes, for those of you scoring at home, I still owe you a couple pictures of outfits from Christmas. I'm hoping these will hold you for a while.

More reading - still photo

Here's another reading picture, her reading to Car Baby, who is clearly a captive audience. She's really loving reading and being read to....we're doing "chapter books" now at bedtime. The Magic Treehouse series is a family favorite. The ironic part is that she HATES going to the library. She prefers that I be her personal shopper for books.

Parker reads Bob to Bob

Here's a little video of Parker reading. These are little books called Bob Books, and they have short sentences with mostly 3-letter words. She's really super proud of herself that she's able to 'read a whole book'. The teacher also sends home little "take home readers" from school and she's doing great with those too.


Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing


EDIT: sorry the first video didn't work, I can't seem to make the Blogger video upload. Hopefully this one works using Dropshots.

Ski Trip

We've just returned from our annual ski trip. This year we went to Steamboat Springs with a group from Bob's work. It was a great trip - Bob and I could really tell that we have improved our fitness levels. I even skied down a Black slope (the hardest) with out getting stuck.
We had Texas-like weather...in that it changed frequently. The first day of skiing it was sunny and relativly warm, but with high winds. The next day there was about 6" of new powder (see trees in background) and it snowed most of the day, with VERY poor visibility and much colder. The third day started out like the day before, but ended up sunny. On the day we left, the temperature at the base was 10F....I'm glad we missed that.

I still haven't mastered smiling with ski goggles on. They smush your cheeks down.