catch up on elle

This girl is a character. Her latest... she had me 100% convinced she had broken her ankle. She crawled for three days and when we would make her try to walk she would collapse in pain. I took her to the Doctor and he told me to give her magic medicine (tylenol) wait an hour and have her try to walk on it. If it still hurt to take her in and get it x-rayed. We did what the doc told us and when she tried to walk her foot gave out and down to the floor she went crying in pain. I felt as though I was the meanest mom making her try to do that, so from then on I was carrying her. She has a dance performance coming up and their teacher keeps changing the moves so I thought she should go watch. We packed up and went (me carrying her of course). I put her slippers on because you are not alowed in with street shoes on. After that she starts trying to take her dress of "so she can go dance". I explained that she didn't even have her leotard on because she had a hurt ankle. Without hesitation she went in limping. A few minutes later I looked in and she was jumping for one of the moves. I am a complete sucker.
She has been to Utah and learned how to ski "all by myself" as she likes to tell people. She spent quality time with Grandpa Eriksen, Aunt Melissa, Tiffany, and Ashley, Uncle Preston, Price and Mason, Cousins Riley, Ciara, and Thompson, and our wonderful friends Todd, Melissa, Katie and baby Joey. It was a blast and she misses all of them.
She also ventured to MD to see Aunt Erin, Uncle Olivier, baby Wills and her best friends in the whole world Ben and Cate. She meet Ben and Cates new brother baby Oliver. She went down town to some museums, to the national zoo, and to cabin john park. What a blast.
She is one social girl. She loves spending time with friends, going to school, swimming, painting, dancing, riding her scooter, and pretending with sister kate. She is our little fashion designer. It is a blast seeing what she comes up with. She is a wonderful big sister, she loves making Kate and gray laugh.