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One Year!

Eloise turned one year old over the holidays. She spent the day with her grandparents, eemo, and cousin Bradley.

Really, all she wanted to do, like every other day, was eat.

We had a lowkey birthday celebration on her actual birthday. She didn't like the hat so much.

On Jan. 2, we had a bigger gathering with the family. Eloise got to hang out with all her favorite eemos.

One of her Eemos made this AWESOME cake, which after she got to taste it, ...

she became a sugar addict (there was lots of crying when we made her stop).

We did the doljabi, and (after faking us out with the rice)...

she went for the money.

It was a fun get-together. So great to see everyone and celebrate her first birthday.

But that wasn't all! After the birthday party, we headed back to Agoura Hills for a photo shoot. More pictures to come from that later, but I took some fun ones on my phone. The moral of the story is that Eloise REALLY LIKES CAKE!

First Christmas

Christmas was in California this year. The mantle was full with all of our stockings. Hamee got one too this year. 😍

Santa went a little overboard, but the kids had fun.

I think Eloise enjoyed the ornaments on the tree more than her presents. She kept pulling them off and bringing them to us. Unfortunately, no pictures of the crime.

Tietze Park

It was an unusually warm Saturday, and it was going to drop 50 degrees in a matter of hours. Had to get the kids out of the house before that happened, so took them to our neighborhood park.

Quick DC trip

Auntie Julie agreed to house-sit for us, so Eloise and I took a quick trip back to DC to clean up the house. Finished cleaning in time to make it to Friendsgiving 2016:

The food was amazing as usual. Eloise especially enjoyed the sweet potato and the mashed potato.

On the flight back, she got bored of waiting for the flight to take off and started reading the safety instructions:

This one is becoming a travel warrior just like her sister.

Baby bears graduate

Eloise just graduated from her Baby Bears class at the Baylor Tom Landry Fitness Center. Although, she loves the water just was much as her sister, she seemed happy to graduate. I think because her teachers makes them do duck dives. She doesn't like that too much. I wish I had a video of it, but I'm also too engrossed to think about taking one.

Here's her "I'm happy to be done" grin:

And a picture of my two fishes chilling out after their classes. 

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