11 Months!

Ellie turned 11 months on Saturday(I know what you're thinking...am I actually posting this just 2 days after 11 months?!?) Here are a few things she is up to right now!

• She loves reading books! She will sit and read(flip through the pages)them all by herself. Last night I got these while reading with daddy before bed.
• Ellie loves to be outside. She really likes to be anywhere. I think she is a lot like me in that she likes to be going and going and not sitting around the house. She has a lot happier days when she is out and about. Here she is playing on the grass at Grandma Judy's and Grandpa Cassity's. It's funny because when we first put her on the grass, she would hold her legs up so she was in a sitting position just to make sure her feet didn't touch. I think it was just cold and a new feeling, but it was hilarious! She really likes to swing as well. This is at Grandma and Grandpa's house. She was having a fun time with Uncle Eric.
• She is getting into everything! Ellie is so fast and getting so tall, that she will crawl over to something, and now she can actually stand and reach it! It is crazy to me because what I thought she couldn't get....she now can and does get into! She even pulled this table over...
• She loves strawberries. Here she is after I gave her 3 strawberries. It is nice because I can actually just give her the whole strawberry and she will chew pieces off. This is all that remained after 3 of them!
• She has 2 cute little teeth and I am pretty sure she is getting more on the top this time.
• She likes to put things into other things. Example since that doesn't make a whole lot of sense:) She will take all her toys out of the bin and then put them back in and get so excited. Patrick even found an Easter egg in his shoe this morning that she so kindly left there for him:)
• She is getting so smart. She will mimic a lot of the things we say and do. Saturday we tried out the Pizza Pie Cafe(pretty good) and she started doing an Indian call(that's what I call it at least) Putting her hand up to her mouth and moving it back and forth while making noise(if that makes sense) I do that and will sometimes do it for her, but this time she did it all by herself. Last weekend, May 30, we went down to my parents. At the middle landing of the stairs my mom has a cow sitting there. Ellie would crawl up and my mom would say the cow noise. Then we started asking Ellie what sound a cow makes and she says Moo! Now we can point out a cow and ask her and she will say it!
• Also while at my parents how she started saying burrrr! We walked to church and it was a little breezy outside so Patrick said burrrr and Ellie repeats it. Now every time there is a breeze, she will say it. She has also been saying it whenever the door opens....or when we go outside:)
• She still loves the bath and likes to splash around and play. I am hoping this means she will like swimming as well. I am planning on during a mommy and me swim class this summer and really hope she likes it:) We will see.
• Ellie is still a great sleeper at night. She will usually sleep from 7:30-6:30. She has even started taking a couple of great naps during the day, which is nice to be able to get some things done.

Ellie is just growing so fast and is so much fun. Patrick and I were talking about how each stage she gets to we say is the most fun, and then the next stage comes and it is the most fun! I love being a mom and having her in our family. She is so happy and just so much fun!