I am truly sorry for having failed you by not posting more regularly. No excuse I have is good enough for my keeping you from Elisa updates. Again, I apologize.
Okay, now that I have confessed and repented of being a slacker in my blogging let me try to update you a little on the world of Elisa.
She is talking a lot more these days. Actually, her talking starts when she wakes up in the morning and only stops when she falls asleep at night. There is a pause for the occasional daytime nap. Words she uses most these days are: shoe, baby, ball, BALL, bye-bye, dadda, mama, MAMA and the infamous NO! Most of the time, though, she speaks "Elisa" and just babbles. We encourage her to speak freely (whatever the language may be).
She runs non-stop with arms flailing! It is quite the site to see her take off with her hands and arms flapping about like she is preparing to take flight. I love to imitate her on occasion (of course, this is not in front of other people).
We are grateful that all of the stairs in our home have baby gates because Elisa can climb stairs just about as fast as we can. We are still perfecting going down.
She has just 4 teeth still. We expect her to wake up some morning with a mouth full of chompers. I had a dream the other night that she had a mouth FULL of molars! It was really weird.
She loves all sorts of things: birds (she calls them "beee"), being outside in the grass, apple juice, cheese, doggies (she isn't old enough for a pet yet, but we will probably have to get her a dog sometime in the next couple of years), dancing to any kind of music, jumping onto piles of pillows, being tickled, being tossed in the air, reading her books, hugging her stuffed animals and playing with other children.
She is about to take her 2nd international journey. We will leave tomorrow for a 2 month furlough to the states where I expect Elisa will be spoiled rotten by grandparents and uncles and aunts. I think it will be a lot of fun for her to play in the snow of Colorado and to open Christmas presents with her grandparents in Texas. This should be a good trip for her. It is going to take us a little over 24 hours to get from here to there, so please keep us (especially Elisa) in your prayers. I will do my best to keep you up to speed on how she is doing during the trip, but there may be times when we don't have good internet access. Non the less, as I said, I will do my best!
Here are a couple of recent pictures of Elisa for you to enjoy. Thanks for stopping by.
