Spotlight on Eliza

Here are a few more things Eliza's been doing lately.  It so happens that she has a special event coming up this weekend so it works out well to give her some extra recognition.

My favorite thing was last week when Jack was struggling to figure out a Harry Potter theme on the piano, he was getting very frustrated and wanted to give up but Eliza was able to calmly help him get the right note so that he could finish his practice.

On Crazy Sock Day, Eliza thought her hair needed a crazy sock too.

Eliza made cards for each of her siblings and a cute little doo-dad for Whit
for Valentine's Day.

She also made me a picture frame and Ben a little car-thing.

Eliza has two 2nd-grade-boyfriends.  The first, A, she has been attached to for a
couple of years already.  They go way back.  The second, T, is a much more recent
addition to the party.  He asked her to be his Valentine a week or two before V-Day
and Eliza's friend said he should write her a note with three things he likes about her.
I think he did a pretty good job.

A, the original boy in Eliza's life, waited until Valentine's Day
to ask her to be his Valentine, but what he lacked in forethought
he made up for in spoils.  He gave her a cute little Princess box
of chocolates and a chocolate rose.  (Last year he gave her a real flower.)

Do you see the chocolate rose in the above picture?

I stayed home from Choir on Sunday because Luke had been sick in the wee
hours of the morning.  Eliza loved having time together to play games before
church, and we had fun trying to build a card house together too.

When I was working on homework with Whit and Jack the other day, Eliza helped occupy
Luke by working on an alphabet maze with him.

Eliza was really excited about the snow fort she made!

She also came up with a new recipe for snow cream, using hot chocolate mix.
I dubbed it Frozen Hot Chocolate, after the Dairy Queen treat.  It's really good.

When Eliza realized before school the other morning that she hadn't quite finished her homework
the night before, she immediately set about to complete every bit of cursive practice on her worksheet.

She was excited to participate in a "Show What You Know" with her class, reciting the poem

What I Like About Me by Allia Zobel-Nolan.  Children stood up at various times, whenever the text

described one of their physical characteristics.  She's standing here for the line "Mom says my glasses look

distinguished.  If I knew what it meant, I'd get an A in English."  Forget that Eliza only wears glasses

as an accessory.  I love it.   She had the opportunity to stand up several other times as well, including

when she proudly represented the freckled population.