Sticky Eliza pictures

Eliza loves to help me cook and bake, especially desserts. Tonight we made some peanut butter cup brownies.

Eliza specializes in "stirring" and sampling, as you can see. She's a pretty cute cook!

Valentine Vignettes 2: Sticky Fingers

This one makes her seem a little finicky. But Eliza HATES having her hands dirty. Or her feet. It surprises us because she doesn't really mind if her face, hair, clothes, or diaper is dirty, but she can't stand it when she gets a drop of jelly on her thumb. She'll pause midway through a meal with a, "Uh-oh!" and hold out her left hand for us to wipe off for her. She'll whine until we clean it.

Valentine Vignettes 1: Prison Break

Eliza's gotten so big! Steve and I can't believe it sometimes.

She's got some very quirky habits, though, that have developed recently. I've been slacking on the blog, so I have a lot Eliza updates to share. So for the next 8 days, we'll publish one Eliza story each day. It'll be our Valentine's/President's Day present for everyone! So here's our first vignette:

One story of Eliza's cunning ways is from this Sunday at church. There was a nursery prison break-- I was in the hall outside the primary room, when I heard some kid screaming, I turned to see like 5 kids busting out of the nursery doors and both nursery leaders, already with crying kids in the arms, trying to grab the escapees back. Eliza caught sight of me and took off RUNNING down the hall towards me. She managed to dodge both leaders outstretched arms, weaving away just in time to run past out of their reach.

The nursery leaders were relieved when they saw me and let me know that she had a dirty diaper anyways. I took Eliza's hand and herded her into the primary room, where Steve was with our Valiant 9 class and the diaper bag. As soon as Eliza walked into the primary room, she saw Steve and clasped her hands together with glee and burst out with this crazy, loud laugh (Steve says it was maniacal). Our primary president later told us it looked like she was celebrating her success at beating the system!

Once: Falling Slowly

Steve and I saw this movie a long time ago. It was a very good movie, but I REALLY love the soundtrack, especially this song. It really speaks to me right now...

This video is of scenes from the movie set the song, Falling Slowly sung by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.

Synagogue anyone?

I am 100% Reformed Jew.

At least according to the Belief-O-Matic!

Steve found this Belief-O-Matic quiz, and we both took it. It was pretty in depth and interesting.

It reads: "Even if YOU don't know what faith you are, Belief-O-Matic^TM knows. Answer 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more, and Belief-O-Matic™ will tell you what religion (if any) you practice...or ought to consider practicing."

Warning: Belief-O-Matic™ assumes no legal liability for the ultimate fate of your soul."

It turns out that Steve is a 100% Neo-Pagan. He'll be frying up some goat and talking to some crystals later on this weekend.