Ellie is scooting! No wait, she’s crawling! Hold up…she’s walking! That’s what’s been going on since the last post. Here’s a few more tidbits:
1. Ellie turned 1!!!! Can’t believe it.
2. She loves loves LOVES the pool! (which mom is super stoked about cause she loves the pool herself)
3. She loves loves LOVES the beach! (double stoked)
4. She’s walking more than crawling as of this week. It’s so cute!
5. I love the way she eats her food. It just tickles me for some reason
6. She is getting molars
7. She’s totally talking, but it just doesn’t make any sense to us. The other day she dropped something and I picked it up and said “got it” and I swear she copied me and said it perfectly, but she would not repeat herself! She did the same thing with shoe, baby, bottle, and several other words. I’m sure she is saying things, but I have never been good at deciphering baby talk and everything she says sounds like ta, da or ma and similar variations thereof. Oh but she totally says doggy. It’s cute.
8. We went to the beach for the first time a couple months ago and we had so much fun! she loved the sand, she loved eating sandy grapes, she loved climbing all over mom, she loved the water and the teeny tiny waves, and I was in Heaven! I was just smiling and laughing the whole time because I was so happy and we were having such a great time.
9. Her personality is such that if she can’t do something perfect, then she won’t do it at all. She’s been this way with everything! rolling over, scooting, crawling, sitting up on her own, walking, and talking. When she does say words they are super clear and perfect, but she only says them one time! I can’t make her say anything! She nods her head all the time though if we ask her a question. ”Ellie can you say doggy?” Ellie nods in response. Once she feels like she can do something well, she will be all gung ho about it. Like walking. She took her first steps a couple months ago, but would only take a few and every once in a while. Now she feels more comfortable so she walks all the time. She is a very cautious baby. It’s super cute. She really thinks about things and their consequences before she embarks on an adventure.
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- Ellie’s birthday
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- Ellie’s birthday bath toys. They are overtaking her tub! She shortly graduated to the real tub
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- Getting ready for the party
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- Birthday outfit!
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- She was a little shy of all the guests and kept crawling over to somewhere to just be by herself :(
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- Everyone wearing stripes and polka dots
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- I’m so cute
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- Aunt Rara and Elles bells dancing
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- Bridget reading a book to all of the kids! they started overtaking her a bit
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- All of the kids in their stripes and polka dots!
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- Proud parents of a One year old
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- Gramsie couldn’t keep her eyes open in a single picture
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- pretty cute
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- hahaha
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- Pool Time! Ellie is wearing Navy’s hat because i didn’t have one and she is bald
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- Sun bathing, she does this every time we go to the pool or beach by the way. All on her own
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- Ellie and Uncle Ken. Way too cute
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- Ellie loved them! It was so cute. She really liked Uncle Ken. She just kept smiling and laughing at him, and reaching for him
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- Ellie loves her some ice cream
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- Matching cousins!
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- Magically, for some weird reason they were all sticking their tongues out!
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- Oh just look and that beach baby!
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- This is me just being so happy and laughing even though she probably wasn’t even doing anything. I just though she was cute
In other Beth and Cody news, Cody started his third year of med school which is amahzing. He’s done the family med rotation and is on the psych rotation right now. He’s not crazy about either of them, but he is enjoying his experiences. The psych ward is a lockdown facility because patients will try to escape so he has to be buzzed in the building and someone else has to let him out. It’s kind of like once he’s in, he’s in for a while. Kinda creepy to me!
We moved, yet again, to a different 2 flat in Oak Park and we love it! I’m so much happier here! there is more room for Ellie and Moby and there is a backyard and a garage. There are only two floors and we are on the second floor so there is no one above us making loud noise and driving me crazy! I’m so happy.
I’m wanting to change the colors in our living room. We have all brown furniture so I was thinking of painting the bookcases white and blue or yellow on the inside and back, and having light blue, light yellow, light gray, and accents of coral in our decorations. What does everyone think? I’m not so good with the decorating so ideas are very welcome. I am just a little sick of everything being so brown and dark. I want to incorporate some fun color into our lives! So give me some super cheap suggestions.
TTFN
P.S. Ellie and I saw the new Winnie the Pooh movie in theaters and it was so fun and unbelievably cute. Ellie just sat on my lap cuddling and eating popcorn the whole time. She loved it. I can’t get over how cute she is. Everything she does is so cute and fun!
