Cheeseburger!

Pizza.

Elle, 2007.

Potty Time!

It usually turns into a whole-house production, but Isla is sloooowly making her way out of diapers:

Sea World...kinda.

The girls had so much fun at Sea World a few weeks ago, that their new favorite game its to play dolphin.

This game requires 1 willing dolphin:

And 1 naked trainer with two purple buckets of ice and a rolling bag full of fish:

Hello. Hello Kitty.

Isla on TV.

I have no idea why, but Isla begged me to take her picture with the creature on TV:

Back To School for Isla!

The Worm

The worm is up:

And then the worm is down:

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Flashback = elle, 1 week old.

Bouncy, Bouncy.

The Cake in Action.

The Most Favorite and Bestest Cake of All. Ever.

Those are elle's exact words when we saw her birthday cake...the plan was to convince her that the bakery simply could not make a cake that had EVERY SINGLE ONE of her 'favorite' things on it.

She had pretty a pretty explicit idea of what she wanted:

Cinderella (but in a purple dress)
Half of a rainbow (in rainbow colors, but with no pink)
A unicorn (in unicorn colors), jumping into the rainbow
A small heart (pink)
A butterfly (purple)
Icing (white)
Cake (white)
Her name (purple)

I thought that the nice cake lady would help me scale-back the design - but she kept saying "no problem!", "of course we can!", "sure thing, sweetie!", "whatever you want!"

The 18 lb. result:

Marcel the Shell (with shoes on).

This is genius:


MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo.

Four. Quatre. Vier. 4. Quadra.

Even though she already had her fake birthday a few days ago, today is the real deal - so Happy (secret) Birthday elle!

It is always great to look back at the picture of the little hurricane on the real birth-birthday:

And here is the shy one at her birthday party on Saturday:

Birthday Flashback #2 = August 17th, 2008.

Birthday Flashback #1 = August 17th, 2007.

Happy (almost) Birthday!

The official date is still a few days away, but Tuesday birthday parties are not nearly as much fun - so we magically shifted elle's birthday to today.

Four. Already?

Pictures coming soon!

Hot. Hot. Heat.

It's about 213 degrees in Austin today, so I thought I would post a picture from a few years back when we elle was cold:

Awesomeness.

Pinky.

Poor Ariel.

Just before the big Mermaid party, elle decided to give Ariel a haircut:

Nerd.

Flashback = August 2007.

Zzzzzzz....

Want to see what Isla looks like after a day Sea World?

Hiya.

Porky.

Ice Cream, Ice Cream!

Thumbs-Up.

The Tub.

You have to know that it was an interesting bath-time when these are the leftovers:

Flashback :: August 1, 2007.