What have we been up to?

We've been keeping pretty busy as of late. This week we had some fun playdates and caught up with good friends. We ventured out to Discovery Place where Mommy had to tuck away her fear of snakes to encounter (i.e. deal with) 2 back-to-back situations where we quite litereally fell upon them coiled around Discovery Place employees necks (lord, help me). My only saving grace is that although Eloise seems somewhat fearless in basically every setting, in both snake instances, as soon as the DP employees walked over and asked Eloise if she wanted to touch the horrid, slithering creatures (I mean beautiful specimens that we all love and appreciate), she'd back away.  Thank god. And then we were saved by a 5 year old boy who thought the snake was "cool" so we could make a major run for it. Ahhhhhhhhh!

We also spent some fun time this week with Gramma Judy and her dog, Lady. Eloise can't decide who she loves more but I will say, I think "Ooody" is the winner:)  She's having a tough time saying Gramma, but getting quite good at Judy. So cute.

For pictures today, we have a few. First, I must show our great new matching hats courtesy of Grandma Sara. Yay! Thanks! I've already received compliments on mine while running today. We need to help Eloise keep hers on her head longer than 30 seconds in order for us to be matchy matchy in public. But for now, we at least have a pic.

Next we have a few of Eloise having fun with her new shopping cart and food. We had a playdate this week where she couldn't get enough of the shopping cart and food (and since I'm personally dying to get her a kitchen combi but am holding back because where would we put another big toy around here?? too much.).
So I thought, well....we can just get the cart and the food and we'll get the kitchen when she's older. Maybe next Christmas. But in the meantime, she can have tons of fun zooming around here with her cart and playing grocery store with the food. Well, once again as witnessed by the ball pit, Eloise is no longer into the shopping cart since she now has one if her own. She was willing to go to war for the cart at her friends house this week, but here? Nope. Come already! Throw a mom a bone!  But the food, now that's fun for her.  So here we are, she's laid all of her food out on the train table and she's decided to flip the shopping cart over or better yet, let's try to get in it??!!  We'll get there. It's a work in progress:)