About Lanie

Elena, or Lanie, as we call her, is two-and-a-half. Like her brother, she is very smart, very sweet, and just gorgeous, but the similarities pretty much end there. Lanie slept all the time for the first three months of her life. Since then, she has not stopped moving. She is outgoing and very expressive. My sisters joke that Lanie has one volume - loud. Now that Henry has decided he's too old to kiss his mommy anymore, I am lucky I have Lanie. She puckers up constantly and showers affection on me, daddy, and even on Henry - except when she's sitting on his head! Lanie's great passion these days is her collection of baby dolls. Baby Lucy is her favorite, but she also has Baby Celia and Baby Jesus (who is a girl, by the way) in addition to other unnamed dolls. Lanie's devotion as a mother puts me to shame. Lanie has at least two dollies with her at all times, including at the grocery store and in church. Her babies have to be buckled in when we ride the in car, they have to be fed at lunchtime, they must have new outfits put on them every 15 minutes or so, and they like to take walks in their stroller. Lanie is an enthusiastic dancer and is very "girlie." She likes having her curly hair styled, and she chooses dresses over pants or shorts whenever she's given the option. When she was an infant, I started calling her "sunsine." I think it remains an opt description today.