First garden tomato

Elsa has never really been interested in eating tomatoes but ever since she sees them growing in the garden, she has has become really interested in them. She wants to check out the plants, hold them, examine them, and take bites out of them. They are no longer safe on the dining room table.

We've gotten some cherry tomatoes but today we got our first ripe tomato (we successfully kept it from the deer).  Elsa starting asking for it this evening.

I was pleasantly surprised that she actually ate it. She is good about asking for something and not eating one bite of it. Notice she is sporting her "dancing headband" while eating.

 She's working on poking her food with her fork but it usually ends up like this:

or just going straight to using her hands

Yesterday, anything Elsa and I would do she would have to go do with her baby. It was really cute and made for a fun way to spend the morning. I just followed her around with my camera and had some good laughs 

as she took care of Baby

We went to the library in the morning and got some fun touch & feel books.

 She read them to her Baby

Her PJs were laying on the couch from the morning and she had to dress Baby in them...

When Elsa colored, Baby had to have a turn too!

Elsa got a diaper change so Baby did too...

This was quite hard and frustrating for E to figure out...she got some help!

Snack time for the Baby...

peeling the banana and apparently baby didn't want the banana cause E just kept saying "no no no nana"

But the watermelon was a hit- that is E saying "yum yum yum" as she fed Baby

 She eventually put baby to sleep and that was the end of playing with baby for the day. I hope she does it again soon- it was very entertaining!

Gymnastics and Playing in the Rain

E had a little Gymnastic session today....

After most of the rain storm passed we went out to look at the yard and discovered that part of our back yard was a small lake. Elsa had fun splashing in the water...

Camping

We went camping this last weekend with the DiPietros. We lucked out and got there as the rain was moving on but they weren't as lucky!

I didn't hardly take any pictures but did manage to get some while we went to swim at the beach  in the park.

 We had fun checking the little tadpoles out. There were so many of them. 

 Alex and Joe rented those bikes you can see in the background. Sadly E had a meltdown as they went out on the water so I didn't get any pictures- they were pretty cool though.

checking out the sand pile on the beach with GG

E got SO tired, so I took her back to the tent for a nap. It was a million degrees in the tent-poor baby!

4th of July

This post is going to be a long one- tons of pictures were taken (thank you Royce)!

We spent the 4th downtown. My parents and brother came into town and we were excited to show them the awesome firework show that Pittsburgh puts on. 

They came up Sunday and Elsa was so happy to have new people to play with......

playing the "drums"

 New bubble maker from Grandma

catching lightening bugs 

 E got pretty tuckered out so we took her inside to get her pjs on and 

of course she got all her energy back!

Monday morning we got up nice and early and headed downtown...

 We fed the ducks who also took a few nips at Alex's feet!

We took a walk across the Fort Pitt Bridge to the Inclines

 

Then we walked back into the city to cool off in the fountains

We had a nice lunch with the DiPietros and then headed back downtown to get a prime spot for the fireworks. Of course once we found our spot it started to pour. 

We ran to get cover under one of the underpasses. It kept us pretty dry and the sun set was really pretty despite all the rain!

Luckily, that was the last rain storm to pass through and we were able to enjoy an awesome firework show.