Checking In With Eliza

 Here are a few fun things Eliza's been up to...

Eliza has a running joke with a friend at school about
"babushka" so she had fun creating this little look,
with the help of tissue paper and some throw pillows.

Eliza bought herself this Minnie Mouse sippy cup at Walmart and
has gotten a kick out of using it, and sharing it with her baby brother.

A good friend invited E to a BYU football game.
Eliza had no BYU swag to don but decided to show her
support of the home team by using blue hair chalk.

Eliza competed in a keyboard competition, playing Fur Elise

and one movement from a Catherine Rollin concerto.  She did a

great job and definitely earned her caramel apple treat afterward!

Eliza chose to be Lucille Ball for her Wax Museum project.  She was really excited about this and I love the way everything came together!  We found her a bandana and an apron to wear over a dress she already had; we sprayed her hair using the rest of the orange hair spray from her Pippi Longstocking costume last Halloween; and she created a cool retro TV on her board and we propped up a Chromebook in front of it to play a 1-minute I Love Lucy highlight video on a loop.  It all looked great!  (Though she said the younger kids watched the video instead of her when she was delivering her little speech.)  She said most of her friends didn't know who Lucille Ball was, so I'm glad she could help educate them.  Also, I found it amusing, and appropriate, that a friend gave Eliza some chocolate and she ate it just before someone came to hear her speech, so she did her best to deliver it with a mouthful of chocolate.  I think Lucille Ball would have been proud.

That afternoon, Eliza helped Luke create his own Lucille Ball look, of sorts.

A topic of discussion lately has been How much do Cat and Eliza look alike? We think they look similar, but not strikingly so.  It's been amusing though that several people have come up to Eliza recently and said something like, "You must be Cat's sister!"  We find it a bit puzzling.  But here are a few pictures where I can see a strong resemblance:

Who wore it better?

And which sister is this?