Grandma Elna comes!

My mom came to visit us at the beginning of June!  Elna had quite a bit of one-on-one reading time with Grandma and loved it!

My mom came to help me sew a dress that I had been wanting to make, but the dress ended up being pretty difficult to make and kind of complicated, so instead of her helping me make it, she just made it.  I really want to learn to sew better, but it’s certainly not very easy for me.  My mom is good!  And the dress turned out so cute!

Here is a picture of me in the cute dress:

My mom took Elna to swim lessons one day so that I could stay home with Harriet who was napping.  A few days later we all went to swim lessons together for her last class of that session.

Our little belly flopper.  We are working on jumping.

You might notice that Elna is a head shorter than most of her class members.  It’s because they are all 5 and 6 years old, and she had just barely turned 3.  I’m so used to her being a giant around her peers, that it’s funny to see her being so short in this class.  Right before I took these pictures, she had marched right up to the side of the pool to jump to her teacher without realizing that the other kids were waiting in line.  This is her first experience with “lines” and my mom and I were getting a kick out of watching her figure it out.

Elna and her teacher, Jordan.

Harriet got her cast off on June 4, after only 3 weeks of having it on.  This was the last picture I got of her in her cast, in the doctor office.  She hated the process of getting it off and cried quite a bit, but got over it pretty quickly.  We were so ready for her to be done with the cast so that she could take baths again!

After the doctor’s office, we headed to the zoo.

Looking at the bears.  I love the bears at our zoo.  They are usually pretty active—moving around our wrestling with each other.

We loved having Grandma there!

Elna with her birthday book from Grandma Elna and Grandpa—The Alfie Treasury by Shirley Hughes.  It’s a collection of all of the Alfie books I grew up reading.  We have read it every day since, and Elna loves it!

Grandma and her girlies with Hattie’s birthday book, Brown Bear Brown Bear, by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle.  Another favorite around here!

Come again, Grandma Elna!