eloise has started with a training cup! she enjoys playing with it- looking at it. she doesn't have any interest in it when she's truly hungry, but i have started introducing it. we have less than a month until my best friend's wedding, and my hope is that she will be able to sip from the cup during the ceremony & while we're taking wedding photos throughout the city. praise my mom & sister, who will be with her during that time! bottle attempts were ditched well over a month ago :)

the girls had a princess date with the brewer girls this morning, while christina & i drank our pumpkin coffees. the best christina & i could document was as follows: 

kelsey & eloise were so interested in each other this morning! this is a first! christina snapped them holding hands :)

it's the perfect rainy morning to dress eloise in these sweet pink booties that her great great aunt shelby knitted in the 1960's, when she was pregnant with her first- a boy. followed by 2 brothers, & subsequently, 4 grandsons. aunt shelby sent me a box of all things girl she had accumulated during her & her daughter-in-law's pregnancies. no girl to be had for the smythers family :) jon swears this will be his luck, only the opposite. he has big dreams of coaching little league one day :)

-ivy