Just a little more birthday and other things too.

Elna’s neighbor friends, Sara, Joshua, and Caleb brought one of their toys to give Elna for her birthday.  These kids are some of the nicest kids I’ve ever met.  They are really kind to one another and to Elna.  Elna adores them!  Sara made several cards for Elna and Elna loves the toy they gave her.

Brian took these funny pictures of Elna’s faces when I was reading her cards to her.  She is the best face maker!

Sara and Elna

Joshua, Caleb, Sara, Kendra, Elna & Brian.  Kendra’s family also gave something to Elna.  And so did another neighbor (the man who borrows our water every few months, for those of you who have heard that story…)  I really don’t know how everyone even knew it was her birthday, but they were sure nice.

Elna with her doctor, Dr. Mary.  We really like her!

Playing with her puzzle table that her Uncle Chris gave her—she loves it!  And I love that she has her name in it!

I love her little bum in the air!

In her new car seat.  She loves sitting forward.

Elna LOVES her new swing—we have park swings directly outside our backyard gate, but they don’t have a baby swing, so we purchased this and hook it with carabineers to the normal swing.  She could spend all day outside on the swings!

We took her to the duck pond last week and it was a hilarious experience.  First of all she hasn’t quite figured out the release function with her hands, so she kind of drops it right in front of her if we were lucky.  Mostly she just ate the bread.  Why feed it to the ducks when you can it yourself, right?  We had to make sure her mouth was filled with bread when we gave her another piece, and then maybe just maybe she would drop the piece on the ground for the ducks.

On the slide and loving it.  Parks were made for this girl!