Growing up...

Ever since we came back from Hawaii, we have noticed that Eliana has become much more independent and opiniated. So in our minds, she has officially changed from a baby to a little girl.

Even though she has strong opinions about some things, she is still a relatively easy going kid that obeys the rules 90% of the time. One such rule is that she is not allowed to touch knives--any knife. One day, she happened to find a knife from Ikea laying around, which she picked up, brought to us, and triumphantly declared, "Eliana KNIFE!" Which we immediately took away.

She has taken to playing with her dolls a lot. She will grab a tub, take off all the doll's clothes, and pretend to give the dolls a bath, using a wash cloth and empty bottle of shampoo. Then she'll take a bigger tub and pretend that she's taking a bath as well.

She also enjoys to cook on the play stove that she inherited from her cousin Lena. She dumps toy cookies into the pot and stirs them around. She also has an oven mitt, which she uses when putting the pot into the oven compartment.

Every Saturday morning, Emily leaves the house to tutor. So Elvin takes Eliana to the farmer's market in downtown Vancouver. Eliana enjoys looking at all the dogs and says she wants to pet them. But when she gets close to them, she'll refuse to touch them. Now that the weather has warmed up a little, Eliana can play outside more. She continues to be obsessed with water...


Eliana got a new pair of sunglasses at the dollar store. The first day she had them, she wore them all the time, both outside and inside the house.