Late Night

so after I texted you I realized 2 things.  1.  I was hungry and craving my favorite chocolate milk and toast.  and 2.  I really really shouldn't have taken that drink of Dr. Pepper at 7:00.  Caffeine has the strongest affect on me.  I really only had like 4 swallows and yep, I'm awake.  Therefore, I thought I would type this up for you.

Nicknames:  Sponge-Elizabeth Triangle pants (I don't know where Andrew gets all of these).  Munchkin, Biff, Terd-bird-mallerd.  Stinky-butt. (even though she isn't stinky).

She remembers things so quickly.  It surprises me everyday when she gets home from school and she learns a new song and she sings the whole thing and remembers all the words.  We were listening to the radio the other day and it said "If your gunna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle and a band...."  (Do you know the song?).  She was singing forever after "If your gunna play in Texas, you gotta have a little rubber band"... I was very disappointed when Andrew corrected her. 

We went to the Shaw family reunion in Northern Idaho this summer and she met all of Andrew's family for the first time.  It took her about 4 minutes before she disappeared with her new cousins and was playing.  She has been practicing this evil laugh Mwa ah ah ah.  and Uncle Nels would laugh his head off every time she would do it, so of course, she kept doing it.  By the end she was getting pretty good at it and as loud as she could.  The other cousins would laugh because Nels would laugh.  It pretty much became the "theme" of the reunion and I won't think of it without the laugh.  I will see if I can find a video of it....and I found it (thanks to my reorganizing today I found it quite quickly actually)  Nels is in the yellow shirt.

We have some good friends that come over a lot that have fallen in love with Lizy.  They, along with Grandma and Grandpa were the only ones she called over for her birthday this year.  Tom, was the only one able to make it because Mateja was out of town.  He bought her some really cute outfits and that cowboy hat you see in the video.  She began practicing her cowboy impersonations. 

I don't know if she did that with you, but she has impersonations of us.  Andrew, she puts on his hat and in a low voice says "was-up"  just like he does when he answers the phone.  She only has done me once, but in her high voice she says "hi sweetheart, come here please". Lol, she is pretty funny.

I mentioned to Andrew that maybe we should go on a date with the two of us, because we hadn't since we got Elizabeth.  He said "what for,  it is way more fun when she comes with us".  I had to agree.  Her excitement over getting a knife and 2 FORKS in her napkin was not only entertaining to us, but the waitresses as well.  She even whooped I think. 

She apparently told my parents at the Lee family reunion "I'm pretty much part of the family now".  I guess making it to the reunion meant she was "in" :D.  I keep waiting for things to calm down where she isn't the center of attention everywhere we go, but it really hasn't yet.  She is going to think the world revolves around her.  Actually at our house, it kinda does, but we try not to let her know it. 

 Grandpa Shaw made birdhouses for all the grandkids to paint at the reunion.  It w