23 Months

Can't believe Ellie is already 23 months.  I seriously don't know where the time has gone.  Here are some things that Ellie is up to these days!

• Patrick and I went on a date to the Fun Park in Logan.  We both always love air hockey and really haven't had a chance to play much since we had Ellie.  We played a few of the arcade games....and since we are amazing got a lot of tickets....we decided to grab a couple little toys for Ellie.  Patrick picked out a little purple ninja and I kind of laughed at his choice...Ellie ADORES this little ninja.  Patrick has even taught her to say Highya and move her hand like a ninja.

• She has gotten to be quite a little daredevil.  She likes to climb on things and will now pull a chair over to reach what she needs to.  I've noticed this mostly at the park.  Bridger Park by our apt is a pretty big park.  The slides they have a really high up.  Ellie has never really gone down them by herself and is content to walk around.  She decided that she wanted to swing from the largest/steepest slide there and I about had a heart attack.  She didn't let go, but did decide to try to go down it.  She put her feet down a couple feet into the slide and flipped over the edge.  Luckily I felt like I should be as close as possible to catch her at the bottom and had moved up to reach as high as I could and caught her.  I still had a really big heart attack and she hasn't tried to go down again....April 30, 2012

• Ellie still loves stickers.  She thinks they are great and has done really good at only sticking them on herself or on paper-that is designated for stickers.  She also loves to stick them on her nose.  Her favorite is still to stick them on Patrick:)  April 21, 2012

• She has such a good memory.  I am amazed at the things that she says to me and what she will remember from weeks before.  I know she is getting older, but for some reason I never think she will remember things so well.  She talks about when we went to baby animal days and will tell me about all the animals she held and what they did.  There is an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse that we watched a couple months ago and it has a silly gilly gumbo in it.  The other day at dinner she brought up this silly gilly gumbo and how it is outside.  I didn't even really remember so we re-watched the episode and it is outside-it ends up being Willy the Giant making noises.  She now thinks that saying silly gilly gumbo is hilarious!

• Ellie really likes drawing.  I think she prefers to draw over coloring a picture.  She will still color pictures, but if I give her a blank piece of paper and a pen(not crayons) she will draw for a long time.  She really likes to draw/color while laying on the floor on her tummy.  I loved coloring this way also:) April 17, 2012

• For some reason she thinks that the wind will blow her away.  If I roll the windows down in the car, she will say/scream, "Blow me away!!!"  Until I roll the window up.  We were on a walk the other night and it was a little windy.  She was pushing her baby stroller and the wind started blowing pretty hard.  It pushed her baby stroller backwards and she started saying blow me away, blow baby away.  We had to run the rest of the way home to make sure we wouldn't blow away.

• We got a little baby stroller a little bit ago and she loves to push her baby around in it.  We go for walks just around the block and she will push the stroller:)  She always asks to bring it wherever we go, and we have taken it to the library a couple of times:) May 3, 2012

• Ellie has always enjoyed being comfy and will make sure to find the most comfy position.  This is a new favorite way to sit while on the couch. April 18, 2012 

 April 22, 2012

• Now has a pillow in her crib. May 6, 2012

• Hiding in her stroller.  She thinks its fun to get in the back basket of her stroller.  May 3, 2012

• She is talking like crazy and often we have random people ask how old she is and then tell me that she is speaking so clearly and they are amazed.  Some of the words/phrases she says that I just think are so cute are.  

Cow(when we drive to Patrick's work we pass a bunch of cows.  She gets so excited and will say cow over and over until we pass the cows.  Then while we are passing, she mooos and then says bye cow until we get to his work.  When she says it is starts out low and then gets pretty high.  It's really cute)

Sure do

What the(This one is completely my fault.  I say this all the time.  It is really funny coming out of her mouth, but perhaps no the best thing for her to say.)

Silly(she calls everything silly, and she chuckles when she says it)

Animal say...(She says this especially when we are in the car.  She will say the animal, such as cat, and then say what it says.  So, cat say....meow)

I love you-pronounced I yawwvvvv you(Ellie will be looking for something and call out for whatever it is, then she will yell I yawwvvv you, cracks me up every time) 

Sleep-pronounced seep(Whenever she sees somebody sleeping she will come up to you and say seep....shhhhhh)

Baby cry-pronounced baby kyyyy

Hold you Momma

Ellie turn(She loves to say the prayer at night or dinner and will say Ellie's turn)

Pee yew-pronounced pee whoo(This is one of my favorites.  She will say this after a messy diaper or the other day when we passed the cows, I said they were cute cows and she said, "No, stinky...peewhoo")

Don't want to-pronounced no mont to

Diaper-pronounced Biper

Ellie is growing up so fast and I look at her and can't believe she is a little girl now and not my little baby!  So glad she is part of our family!