She's Here! She's Here!

Rachael Elizabeth Crase was born on Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 at 7:16pm. She weighed 8lbs, 3oz (predicted by her mama) and was 19 inches long. She looks just like her big sister did when whe was born. She has been a perfect little lady and is nursing great and making lots of diapers for us to change.

Happy Birthday Elena!!

If you can believe it, Elena Rebecca Crase is now 4 years old! We've had a good day today, starting with a cupcake for breakfast, a trip to the park, and a new play kitchen when she got home.

Elena is becoming quite the photographer:


And she is an excellent cook. She made us Roast Beast Pie for lunch:


Festivities planned for tonight include a special requested dinner of spaghetti and meatballs prepared by her Grandma Minnie with more cupcakes for dessert. There might be another present or two to unwrap as well!

Holiday Program at School

Elena's holiday program was scheduled during the last week before Christmas break started and was then cancelled due to a snow storm. Luckily they rescheduled for last week so we got to get her all dressed up and take her to the show!

Here she is with Kaitlyn, Tess, and PJ:


The preschoolers were first on stage and did a wonderful rendition of Ring Those Bells and The Snake Baked a Hoe Cake.


And here she is backstage with some of her admirers:

Santa 2008

Our friend, Julia, sent Elena a box full of beautiful hand-me-downs from her daughter, Maddie. In it was a Christmas dress, just the right size! So Elena wore it on Sunday when we went to see Santa.

It's a Girl Baby!!

Elena was not surprised at all. Why should she be? She's known all along that she is going to have a baby sister. Although, she is concerned because the baby is "just a skeleton" right now. It'll be a while before we can convince her it's a real baby in there!

(why is it so short?)

We went on Saturday to get Elena's haircut and we cut quite a bit off. When her daddy saw it, he said, "Oh sweetie, you look so pretty!" and then whispered to me, "why is it so short?". It's so short because I wanted to see what it would like like without that halo of unruly wispy hair around her head. It's cute but I'm not so sure it looks like her so we'll probably let it grow out!

Punkin Love

Elena really enjoyed getting ready for Halloween. I forgot to post these earlier: