Baby Elisabeth is now 8 months!!



My how time flies.  I don't know where to begin.  I am writing from the lovely big Island of Hawaii on the Hilo coast.  We are in Hawaii for 9 days!!!  We are some lucky folks.  Paul was sent over here for work and we got to come with him  and we are loving it.  It's during the Thanksgiving holidays and today is Wednesday, November 23 so our sweetie is exactly 8 months in Hawaii.  You know what's even crazier?  My parents took me to Hawaii when I was 8 months old!!  Uncanny huh?  Okay, before I forget I need to write what Elisabeth is doing now.  Then, I'll do another post (or a couple) about Hawaii and it's loveliness.

• She loves to smile at people and I am calling her Miss Public Relations.  Wherever we go, in the airplane, at the beach, she is all smiles for people and she does the cutest thing - she shakes her head at them and then they shake their heads back at her and on and on it goes.
• Everyone adores her wherever she goes and call her a living doll.  She has the prettiest, biggest green eyes right now.
• She loves nothing more than to be held and "walked" as she is held.
• She can feed herself her little puffs all by herself and loves them.
• She still takes two good 1 1/2 naps.
• She has done really well on this trip considering the time difference (3 hours) which has gotten to me and Paul as well.
• She can clap her hands together and likes to clap them against mine.
• We think we have seen her wave bye a little but are not sure.
• She crawls just fine but prefers to spend her time pulling herself up rather than bother crawling.
• She likes the pool and beach and likes the feel of sand on her feet.
• She says "baba" now and not just "amama."
• She has been crawling to me lately and crying as she crawls and it's the cutest, most endearing thing ever.
• She loves to hear music and bounces around and claps to it when she hears it.
• She does not like long plane rides and has a hard time falling asleep on them.
• She loves peekaboo now.

I think that's it for now. 

The holidays are a-comin!!

I just love this time of year and now that I am a momma I love it even more.  I love introducing Elisabeth to new things like snow

Here she is wearing my Russian hat.  So cute!

I feel bad.  Like all I write about these days here is Elisabeth when there is actually a great scope to our family life.  Paul is a great father and husband.  He has been extremely busy these days at work prepping for us to go to Hawaii.  Thanks hubby for taking us too!  Here's a funny pic of Elisabeth playing on his computer.  She LOVES his computer and my phone and she'll crawl to it.

She also likes to pull herself up on everything.

And here we are prepping for the holidays.  I got her a Christmas coat!  Couldn't resist!!!  How precious is she??

I miss Paul tonight.  He went to Hawaii a day early but we'll be there tomorrow!!!  So excited!  Wish us luck on the plane ride.  Toodles!

Halloween

We had a happy Halloween in the McAllister household.  Little Elisabeth dressed up as a bumblebee.

How precious is she??  Look at those squishy cheeks.  We took her to a family party at Grandma McAllister's home where all the cousins dressed up.  Here she is with her sweet cousin Bethany.

And here she is with her Grandma and Aunt Martha.

We had fun dressing her up for the occasion.  Earlier that day Paul was trying on his mullet and we put one on Elisabeth.  She loved wearing it and giggled a lot.  It was so funny and she looked hilarious!!

Everytime I look at the pic I laugh all over again!

And look at her above.  She looks like she's posing with her pretty wig.  Mostly she's happy cause she's with her daddy whom she adores.  But who wouldn't adore a handsome and loving man like him??

On Halloween I took her and my friend Arriana and her little boy Kendrick to the Southtowne mall for trick or treating.  There were soo many cute kids dressed up there.  Elisabeth kind of just took it all in.  Here is Kendrick fasinated by her bumblebee antennae.

Also, before I forget, Elisabeth went to visit her cousin Hayden who is seven months older than her.  She is Andy and Elena's little girl.  They had a fun playdate.

Andy is such a good dad.

As you can see in both pictures, Elisabeth was fascinated by Hayden and kept trying to touch her.  She likes to touch kids her age and play with them.  She also liked hanging out with Aunt Iza.

After we visited them in Provo, I took her to the Love Sac store.  How cute and tiny does she look on this love sac?? 

And now our little seven-month-old is walking by herself as long as we hold her arms up!  She just started today and walks sideways like a crab!  Also, we are all excited because Paul is going to go to Hawaii for work through Thanksgiving and we get to come with him!!!  We think Lizzie will love the ocean.