Elese

Now it's Elese's turn. Here are somethings about her. If you didn't read about Max click here.

• Former favorite word: Awesome (if anyone else would say it she would say, "Don't say that!"
• Doesn't fear spiders-after the flood the kids slept on the front room floor. One night at around midnight Elese calmly walked into our room and said, "Mommy, there is a spider in my bed." We thought she was just being a stinker so Steven told her it was OK but to go back to bed. Elese said, "NO! There is a spider in my bed." Sure enough, there was a spider in her bed.
• She is Dora Explorer
  
• She is Rachel (our babysitter)
• She is Diego and/or Alisia and/or a Jaguar
• She is a princess
• Lucifer the cat in Cinderella is currently her greatest fear because "He went like this" (imagine her cheeks all puffed up) "With that mouse and tried to eat it." She refuses to watch the movie alone now.
• When the little rascals dress up like Amish men she thinks they are monsters.
• She wants to be just like her brother
• Crawdads are very cool and not scary
• Jumping off things is an adventure for her.
• Has gotten better about throwing fits in the library...
• ...although she has gotten worse about throwing fits in fabric stores
• Daddy is a prince and she makes him dance with her
• Lip gloss is the coolest thing since a sippy cup.
• Being 5 is the biggest accomplishment ever!
  
• Dropping Max off at school provides her a great opportunity to run around and report back to mommy which girls have princess backpacks and which ones have Dora backpacks.
• She likes to sing songs (ie. "lalala, I'm a princess..dododo...I'm dancing like a princess...ladeda")
• Nursery is the best place ever!
• BABIES! Oh MY BABIES! Real babies, toy babies, big babies(2 years +) and even little babies. "It's a baby! Mommy I want to see the baby! What's the babies name? Look mommy it's a pink baby! Look mommy it's a blue baby! Hold me like a baby! Look mommy I'm a pink baby! Goo goo ga ga. WAAAAHHH"
• Loves her Grandmas
• Screams at Uncle Blake if he looks at her (Ah, just like her mommy used to)
• Got her first hair cut
• Thinks the bank is a sucker store and the Lake is for throwing things in.
• Enjoys helping daddy cook breakfast and mommy cook everything else.
• Refers to Lagoon as "The Goon"
  

Funny Things she has said or done

12/20/2008 Elese had been bitten by a dog (don't worry, not a bad bite) she said, "Doggy eat you."

7/24/2009 Max had just said, "I love you Daddy!" and then Elese said, "And I love Mama!" In the previous days she didn't want anything to do with daddy, mommy was her favorite.

8/3/2009 We were coming home from a neighborhood party and Elese wanted to stay so she started crying and throwing a HUGE fit. Suddenly she just stopped, looked at me and said, "Mommy, I'm fake crying."

September '09 A new little girl in our ward kept looking at us in sacrament meeting so Elese asked about her...I told her that her name is Grace and that she is in Kindergarten like Max. Elese looked at me with total amazement and said, "She's 5?!!!" as if being 5 was the most spectacular thing to be.

10/11/2009 while visiting another sacrament meeting and everyone laughed at something that had been said, "This Sacrament is funny!"

10/11/2009 We have Sacrament meeting last and the ward we visited today has it first so when we went in Elese got very worried and said, "Mommy! I forgot to go to Nursery!"


During the flood in our basement we had to cut out a piece of drywall in the kids closet, this created a hole that opened up into my moms portion of the basement. We have a door with a deadbolt that separates our space from hers. One day Elese was REFUSING to take her nap. She was having trouble because during the flood clean up she had to sleep on her mattress in the front room. I got fed up with it and dead bolted our front door (so she couldn't escape and wander the neighborhood) and then went through the door that links to my moms and locked her in our apartment while I sat on the steps and calmly said, "Get back in bed and I'll come back in." She SCREAMED and cried for about 30 seconds and then got quiet. I was so relived and thought she had gotten in bed to go to sleep so I was about to go back in when I heard a noise coming from my mom's side of the basement. She had gone into her demolished bedroom and crawled through the door. I was so mad yet so amazed that she was smart enough to think to do that.