Exciting things are happening in our house! Ellie is so busy and so fun and so exhausting. She walks like a pro! I think for awhile she didn't really know that she knew how to walk and so would only walk if she "forgot" Apparently this weekend she realized her abilities and now only resorts to crawling in extreme situations. We love that often she just stands and pats her tummy and then waddles off in her new independence.
It is amazing how smart Ellie is and how fast she acquires new things. I didn't realize before I had a toddler how much they comprehend. One of her newest tricks is pointing out your ears. She quickly jabs you in one and then whips your chin around to get to the other. So funny! She has known nose for a long time but hasn't yet discovered that she herself has these body parts. I'm sure that will be coming soon. She can point out every nose in her books...the rabbit's nose, the llama's nose, the bird's nose (beak :)... She is also picking up a few words. Still many are indistinguishable and I think "ba" stands for a lot of things. It is nice that she signs "more" and "all done" so we for sure know what she means when she uses those. She can point to Daddy and knows the difference between Missy and Milo (hilarious I think) but I really don't think she knows Momma yet. Ha! I'm making Jason talk about Momma more so hopefully she'll pick that one up for me :) She also gives kisses. So sweet and slobbery!!! She opens her mouth all the way up and slobbers your face if you ask her for kisses. She is still a big time waver and is quite friendly to most strangers. She waves at people as we walk by, she waves at old men in cars driving by, she waves at animals and will always wave at other little kids. She gets a lot of attention for her waving!
We love that Ellie is so happy and giggly all the time. I don't know if it is normal but her little toddler feet get really sweaty. It is a little gross in that adorable little toddler feet way but we started probably a bad thing by pretending to smell her "stinky feet" She laughs uncontrollably. We're pretty sure we started a bad thing because now she smells her own feet and laughs or will even smell ours and laugh. Oh my goodness...
Elle has a little tunnel that Grandma brought over and she has been playing in there a lot lately. She even crawls in if she needs to hide something from us. Sneaky, sneaky. She went in the middle and pulled out all of her baby wipes one day!
Ellie has some pretty good dancing moves. She loves daddy's music and prefers it a little bit on the loud side. It is so funny. She moves her whole little body and has pretty good rhythm. (I don't know who she got that from) We've recently started to work on adding the arms into the dance moves. Maybe we'll add a few steps next. So far it is mostly a "bounce" dance.
One of Ellie's favorite activities is drawing with a pen (I did not condone this activity) but she loves to do what everyone else does and is surprisingly good at drawing with a pen. I got her some crayons and she is not so into them. Well she likes to eat them, a lot! She also loves to get "messages"- we draw pictures on sticky notes and she sticks them on the window. She recently got some easter window stickers and loves to play with them! She loves to be outside and so we have really enjoyed the first bit of spring and the beautiful weather. She sits on the front porch and watches for the cars, or squirrels, or whatever happens to pass by. She gets especially excited if someone pulls up to see her! Wagon rides have become one of her favorite things and she loves to pick up the prickly gumballs. She only holds them by the stem which I think is pretty cool.
Ellie's favorite foods this month are cheerios, whole wheat pancakes, blueberries, avocado, green beans, cheese, mac n' cheese, cheesy goldfish crackers (Are you seeing a theme....) She is just starting to try to feed herself with the spoon. It is pretty cute to watch her. She isn't quite coordinated to get the food and make it all they way to her mouth so she picks up the food, puts it on the spoon and tries to get it into her mouth. Often it rolls off and she tries again or just eats it with her fingers. Fun times.
We are having so much fun and Ellie is growing up to be quite an amazing little person. We're pretty happy that she still takes time out of her busy schedule to be sweet and cuddly.
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