15 Months
10/31/09 Little Bunny Ellie
10/31/09
The last 3 months have passed in a blur of sicknesses, vacations and holidays. In fact, the Halloween pictured above was the last normal day until we got back from Portland 2 weeks ago. Regardless, I am a mommy-writing-slacker. I have chosen to play with Ellie, shop for Christmas presents and hang out with Erin and Jasper, rather than catch up on her postings. The problem with it is, I know I’ll regret not having those to read down the road. Darn!
11/5/09 Ellie is sick and also disapproves of my excuses
12/7/08
But, here goes! Ellie is 15 months old and she’s amazing! She plays around with words, not keeping any one word in her vocabulary for very long. She has said, Dada, hi, hat, hot, mama (but this meant ‘eating’), this, that, eye and many other words that she knows and we don’t yet understand. She signs, all done, bye, hi, eat, up, yay and others I’m sure I’m forgetting. But what really astounds me are the words she just plain understands. She can’t yet communicate them back, but she knows her nose, ears, eyes, belly button, hair, feet, toes and probably more! She knows shoes, socks, outside, nap, more, bath, book, cheese, blueberry…and I’d better just stop there because this could go on for a while.
11/28/09 Thanksgiving in Cayucos
12/5/06
Have I mentioned her dancing before? She’s the cutest little bopper! She mostly bounces up and down with her knees and holds her hands up so they flop up and down with the music. Sometimes, I haven’t even noticed there is music playing until I see her point up her chin, put on her serious dancing face and start bouncing. I love it. I don’t think I have ever seen anything so cute. Except maybe her streaking bottom after a bath when she makes a run for it to escape the towel.
12/21/09 ("wearing" my skirt)
12/24/09 First Christmas Present
She has a whole new relation ship with her toys, recognizing what they all do to entertain her. Her favorite new toys are soft toys like stuffed animals and her new books. She got a big stuffed penguin for Christmas and she loves to topple over on top of it and roll around. She finally sits through some books with a little more text, but often still gives up half way through from distraction. She loves to walk around in our shoes, no matter how many times they trip her up. We find her toys in every possible receptacle, be it a backpack in the corner, the garbage, or the toilet.
12/28/09 Polar Bear
12/30/09 Busy
She definitely has green eyes, a shade or two darker than my own and long, dark eyelashes, several more shades darker then mine, thank goodness. Her baby face has only grown up slightly. She still has chubby cheeks, a tiny nose and a slight double chin. She has the most expressive eyebrows, arching up in interest, furrowing in concentration and twitching in annoyance. Her hair is much longer now, almost long enough that you don’t notice her sticky-out ears. It is still a honey blond. Her fingers are incredibly busy, she’d tried out coloring yesterday! Her belly is cute and a little pudgy, though she is still a very skinny little monster, and her bottom is adorable!
12/28/09
Her entire being is entirely agreeable! Well, except for when she’s in a disagreeable mood, but even then she’s really darn cute!
12/3/09
1 comment January 29, 2010 amykatrina
12 Months
10/7/09 Happy Birthday Sweet Face!
This is it. I have to somehow write an ode that is worthy of the anniversary of Ellie’s birth. It’s so wonderful to have these chronicles of Ellie’s development, but every time I sit down to write one, I wonder how I can possibly try to get my clumsy words to capture her essence. Here goes.
9/23/09
She has become quite a handful. She makes her opinion known with a loud squawk, whether she’s mad about going inside, sitting still for a diaper change, or being told not to investigate the garbage. She’s perfected the limp noodle body to keep from being picked up, and the fast retreat when we’re trying to take away an item she shouldn’t be playing with.
10/1/09 (Can is empty, of course)
10/4/09 Naptime
But as increasingly opinionated as she is, she is even more increasingly sweet. She now hugs us with as much of a reach as her little arms have and rests her head on our shoulder. She reaches up to be held and holds on like a monkey when she doesn’t want to go down. She loves to sit in my arms and watch me baking, refusing to go down until I’m done. She hates it when either of us leaves the house or goes in a room and closes the door.
10/7/09 Carrots I was grating for her cake
10/7/09
She loves peek-a-boo and (as Jesse said a few days ago) will play it as a dog plays fetch, basically until we’ve had enough. She still loves to play with books best of all, but as a second favorite past-time, she can take everything out of the cupboards. She has started dancing anytime she hears music. It’s a dainty, arrhythmic knee bounce with her arms bent at the elbow and her hands flopping up and down. It’s quite possibly the cutest thing I have ever seen. The other cutest thing is her little pointer finger, now extended in every direction. She especially loves pointing at noses.
10/7/09 Birthday cake!
10/8/09
She can run on her little feet, though they sometimes still get a little ahead or behind her. She can climb up on the couch and occasionally get back down safely. Her talking has changed from repetitive babbling (dadada) to what is obviously her own little language. Jesse’s pretty sure she calls him Dada, Dad is certain he was called Grandpa (anda) and I think she may be saying “that” (dah), but I’m not sure about any of it yet. She seems to learn everything so quickly now. She sees Grandpa comb his hair, then when handed the comb, reaches up to comb the hair as well.
10/8/09
10/8/09
She is only ever more beautiful. Her hair is long enough to start curling in back and still golden blond. Her eyes are a deep emerald green, a seemingly impossible color for eyes. She has three teeth and seems in no hurry to get any more. She still has a delicate double chin that I would hate to see go. She is longer and leaner the older she gets and I’m stunned sometimes to see the length of her now, though it’s still a length that is small for her age.
10/8/09
She hates to be told “no” and scrinches up her eyes and whines. We’ve decided to stop using “no” and instead save it for situations where we really mean it. I find myself saying “oops” and “uh oh” (don’t get into that, don’t eat that, please don’t climb that, etc).
10/11/09
She loves to be chased and tickled and hugged and danced around the room. She loves to go outside and watch the big kids. She’s stopped trying to eat the bark chips and instead carries them around in her fists. She loves meeting new people and charms them with her shy smile. She has so much personality for such a little thing.
10/8/09
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