About Time

So I know what you're all thinking right now "Well it's about time she finally updated her blog" haha I know I know I used this excuse last time but we really are pretty busy busy people. Elle is such a good nighttime sleeper that she really doesn't feel the need to nap much during the day but that makes for not much free time for mommy and daddy. When I do get a free moment I'm usually running around trying to pick up the house, do laundry or maybe if I'm really lucky I get to take a quick shower. Something that has helped a lot though has been the recent addition of Elle's playroom. We decided to change our basement rec room into a playroom instead since we never actually used it for a rec room. Now a majority of Elle's toys are in this room including a tv and my treadmill so yay yay yay I actually get to workout again now. It didn't take much to make Elle's playroom although I'm still looking for storage/shelving but we sure had to move a lot of stuff around. Since we got rid of the rec room that meant we had to move the computer, futon and basically just other junk into our extra bedroom. Robby joked that our main computer has now been in every room of our house and seriously it has been but I promised him that is where it's going to stay until we find our new house!! The most exciting part of the new playroom is the new alphabet/numbers play mat that I found online. It took us a little while to put the thing together because it was basically a huge puzzle but once it was together we sat Elle right in the middle of it and I couldn't have been more thrilled with her response.





I think Elle may have been a little overwhelmed with the mat at first because it was so bright and busy but she quickly fell in love and was kicking her feet and squealing in delight.

Elle even liked feeling all the textures and patterns on each of the different pieces of the mat.

This next pic is to show all of you what happens a lot of times when Robby is in charge. I was in the kitchen making dinner and I thought Robby and Elle were playing but suddenly things got very quiet and I wondered what they were up to. Of course not at all to my surprise they were both very interested in something on the tv. I swear if there is a tv in Elle's sight range she is going to find it. Trust me I'm not a bad mother I don't just sit her in front of the tv for entertainment but during the day she does like to watch a little tv from time to time while we're playing and like I said in my last post her favorite thing to watch is still her sea animals and classical music dvd. Elle has also started watching Veggie Tales with Grammy Kim sometimes but she usually gets bored of that after 10 minutes or so.

As usual I'll leave you with a few new pics of Elle. I promise I'll try and post a little more often but get ready cause when it gets nice out it will be hard to trap me inside with a computer. I can't wait for Elle and I to go on long walks and since we're so close to a park you'll probably find us there a lot as well.