"butt"

"Butt" is Eloise's word for "button". She pushed the button to take this picture of her little guy in the baby doll stroller.

going to the park

Eloise knows how to get to the park from our house and she knows how to tell me to get there. If I try to go a different way (or go someplace other than the park) she says "no mama, that ... that.. " (meaning "that way"). Thanks Eloise! How would I ever get to the park without you?

shoes

Eloise has been spending A LOT of time practicing putting on her shoes. She likes any shoe that is slip-on-able. She asks me to sit on the floor ("mama sit please") so that she can hold on to my knee while she tries to get her foot in the shoe. She invariably ends up pushing the shoe away, then she stops, picks up the shoe, puts it in a good spot and tries again. If it gets really tough she'll start mumbling to herself "nunnel..." which means tunnel, as in she's got to get her foot in it! She's getting pretty good at putting on her own shoes, and the big slippers in this picture are a piece of cake.

super excited

This is the expression Eloise makes when she gets super excited. In this case, it's because we were about to go to a party. "pah-tee! pah-tee!"