She has potential

After gymnastics class today, Eliana's instructor came out to talk to me. She said that she was very impressed with how Eliana has progressed in such a short amount of time. She can't get over how much upper body strength she has. Ms. Rowena went over a few things with me that we can work on at home and she said that these little things will help her progress through to level 2. Eliana needs to work on her stretching, flexibilty, and balance. She also suggested that we find some place that would mimic a balance beam. Of if we knew someone that could build a balance beam. I said that Fadi would be able to build it. She also said that if Eliana has the passion to want to continue in gymnastics in the long run then she will go far :) Of course when we walked outside she wanted to call Fadi. Here is how their conversation went...
E: Baba - can you build me a balance beam?
F: A balance beam????
E: I need to practice on a balance beam because Ms. Rowena said I have great potential !
What is this girl going to come up with next????
stay tuned:)

Beach Babe

We had one of our first trips to the beach today for the year and it was a great time!!! We met up with Heather at Sand Key Park. Eliana got over her initial fear of the waves as they crashed! It took some time, alot of encouraging, reassuring, water up her nose and down her throat, but it all came back to her by the end of the day! She was a pro :)

flip-flops

When we went up to Pittsburgh, Ava had a present for Eliana and they were new Flip Flops! ELiana loves to be in flip flops and these were something like I have never seen before. My crafty cousin Lisa made them!!! I promised Ava that when Eliana would wear them I would post pictures so she was able to see them :) Here you go Ava - Thank you soooo much for thinking of Eliana and we can't wait to play with you in July!!!

The Cutest Flips that I have ever seen!!

The infamous pose!

And the biggest wedge :)

Co-pilots

On our trip to Pittsburgh we had a stop in Maryland. As we were waiting for the other passangers to board the plane Eliana was very curious of the cockpit since it was open and you really never see it open anymore. So I told her that is where the pilot sits when he flies the plane and the flight attendant said that we were able to go up closer if we would like. So we went closer and another flight attendant said that we were able to go ahead and go into the cockpit. This caught me off gaurd but in we went and the pilot was wonderful. He let Eliana sit down and push some of the controls and the accelerator. He explained what a few of the controls did. He also wanted her to said Hi to baba over the radio but she was way to shy to do that! I wish she would have done that - Fadi would of loved it!! The pilot asked if I had a camera and I said, "of course- I never go anywhere without it". He let me sit in his seat and he took our picture!!!

the spy cam is at it again :)

Eliana was watching Fadi while he was outside watering the trees. This is why she is behind the curtain. She was signing along with her new build a bear to the Jonas brothers :) I tried to get a face shot but I did not want to risk getting caught!!

all by herself.....

Eliana was on the balance beam today ALL BY HERSELF and boy was she proud of that!!! At dinner every night we ask eachother what are good and bad parts of the day were and this was her "good part".

We are also working on her focusing on herself and not other people around her...she is so nosey:)

Carrots vs. Mandarins

E - can I have a snack when we get home?
A - sure, you can have a mandarin or carrots.
E - umm I will have a mandarin because I can already see good and you told me that eating carrots will help me see better. :)