Monday, June 16, 2014

The Day It All Began


Four years ago today, it all started, Elena started. I’ve said it before, it feels as though Elena, her little personality, has always been a part of me…it feels so surreal, even still, that it’s only been 4 years & at the same time that it’s just been 4 years. I love that we share this very special anniversary right at Father’s Day. It makes it easy for us to have something to celebrate even though neither of us have a father to recognize.

We continued our tradition, for the third year in a row, of going to the Teddy Bear Picnic. It was a great day as usual & with each year Elena gets more & more out of it, being able to understand & enjoy more of the activities offered.


Elena also experienced a first; she got her face painted for the 1st time!! While we waited in line, Elena insisted she wanted to get a Spiderman face, she loves Spiderman! In the end, after watching little girl after little girl get butterflies, when we sat down in the chair for our turn, she opted for the butterfly & a pink one at that!! She still looked adorable though!


Elena also had her gymnastics show Saturday morning. She didn’t have the stage fright she experienced at her school show. She did amazingly & graduated from the Toddler Stars program to the Junior Kinder Stars!

She also had her final swimming lesson Sunday. She really is doing so well & her coach thought so too. So much so that she graduated her from Splash A straight past B & C & feels she is more than ready for Splash A+!! I knew she would pass Splash B but had no idea they’d feel she was ready for Splash A+. Amazing!

12 comments:

  1. Such a little athlete! And so sweet in her butterfly. Congrats on your 4 year anniversary.

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  2. Elena looks so grown up with her face painted. The teddy bear picnic looks like such a fun activity. Congratulations to her on swimming an gymnastics success.

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  3. She is beautiful and looking so grown up! Glad you've had lots of fun things to celebrate lately.

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  4. She looks so cute with her butterfly face paint! That's awesome on the swimming and gymnastics!

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  5. What a gorgeous picture! And I love this teddy bear picnic you go to!!! Sounds like your summer is off to a great start!!!

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  6. What a great picnic tradition! And she looks adorable as a butterfly!

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  7. She looks too cute as a butterfly. I think J would have been torn between her choices too. He thinks he's Spider Man but you know Perry. Congrats to her for advancing so well in her classes!

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  8. 4 years of Eleanor - wow! I know just what you mean too. I can't imagine life without BB yet sometimes I still can't believe he is actually mine - that I have a child. Its great that you have this special day around fathers day too, the teddy bars picnic looks fab and Eleanor is looking do grown up in the photo

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  9. So cute! Glad you had a happy fourth anniversary.

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  10. Congratulations on this momentous occasion! A Teddy Bear picnic sounds like a perfect way to celebrate.

    Elena is beautiful.

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  11. That looks like a fun picnic! And how cute she is with her butterfly :-)

    Happy (very bleated) anniversary!

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