Eliana Lizbeth: dress up

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Friday, May 14, 2010

Baby's First Little Black Dress

They don't call it a little black dress for nothing! This thing is tiny, measuring about 18inches long. And of course matching black ruffle bloomers! This was my first attempt at ruffling bloomers and I will just let you know that it is very meticulous work!

Here is a teaser of Eli wearing her new clothes. If you want to see her full outfit you will just have to wait till Monday after the wedding. That's right, we have another wedding!

Here is Eli delighting herself in her new water table thanks to her Abuela. Eli loves splashing around! Don't you just love that belly?

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Let me be a Girly!

This week I learned just how much of a girly-girl Eligirl is! To my delight, so far she wants to be just like me! And that includes spending lots of time in front of the mirror! Just kidding! But let's face it, make-up application and blow-drying takes forever!!! Anyway, even though Eliana owns 5,348 toys and has 2 rooms in our new house all devoted to her, she would much rather be all up in her Mama's business. Praise God!

The deal we struck was simple yet genius...I let you mess with my make-up and you let me put curlers in your pelo...it worked!

She is especially adorable when she uses my cherished make-up brushes on her cheeks! By the way, these brushes are great!!! I got them at Walgreens and they work wonders. I am very tempted to buy Eli her own kit of brushes, but I have a feeling she likes these because they are mine...

Being a Girly-Girl is more fun when there's another Girly-Girl standing next to you, or in this case, in front of me stealing my mirror and make-up!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Eli's new skill

Guess what Eli learned to do? Open my lipsticks! Eliana and I had a good run with the whole 'playing with Mama's purse' thing but Tuesday it became clear it was over.

I was on the phone with her Tia with what, in baby time, was probably years so when I got off the phone with Tia Kim and looked over at Eli, this is what I saw:

Well, not exactly because first I had to run to get the camera when I found her covered in lipstick then I had to stop laughing long enough to even take a picture! In my cosmetics bag were (thank God!) 2 lipsticks. Sparkling Punch & Dahlia. I happen to collect lipsticks and glosses like some people collect baseball caps, so even though I have more lipsticks than I can count, each one is dear to my heart!

Apparently, Origins lipsticks also taste good. It must be the mint flavoring!

My ever-resourceful and increasingly curious Kitten found that if she stuck her finger in Mami's lipstick tube, she could eat it much faster. Yu-cko!

Though I am bummed that Eli can no longer play with my lipsticks (she would sit and play with one forever) and that she made a mess she could not possibly clean up herself! I was reminded of God's grace in all the chaos! Eliana ate Sparkling Punch. Even though I love Sparkling Punch, Dahlia is much more important to me! On Monday night when I shared my life story at church with a million people (ok like 100)I boldly wore Dahlia, a bright red, in defiance to the fear and anxiety I felt at the thought of standing on stage. Surely an Angel of Grace guarded that lipstick from Eli's prying fingers so I could continue to wear it in remembrance of my big day! God wanted me to learn a lesson about Eli's freedoms but He is so sweet and kind that He spared the red!

Naughty Tata got in on the lipstick feast too. The pink lipstick tube is Dahlia, proudly standing untainted by toddler hands!