What a fun week we had with Grandma Gini! Ella had so much fun playing with grandma and I was given a break from some dirty diapers and messy meals. We went to the zoo, the beach and did lots of playing at home. Grandma taught Ella how to wave bye-bye. She practiced while sitting on grandma's lap on the front porch to all the cars driving past. Grandma also taught Ella how to blow kisses. Well kinda - she just does the blow part, but its awfully cute! Hopefully grandma Sue comes soon and Ella can enjoy getting tons of love from another grandma and show off all her skills.
I am so glad Ella is not as anxious around people as she used to be. She will play great with anyone, but will only let certain people hold her- me, BT, grandma Gini, and grandma Sue. Although she did reach out for Angela to hold her today so that is great progress! Anyway, I just want her to not be as painfully shy as I was, so hopefully she will get her daddy's charming personality!
So all of Ella's talents to date are clapping, standing while holding onto something one-handed, starting to cruise, waving, saying bye-bye, uh-oh, mama, dada, oh wow, and she signs doggie. My favorite is when she claps at all the right spots of "when your happy and you know it." It is adorable, but I am bias of course!
(I did not get a ton of pics this week, because if you know my mom she is pretty good about taking pics ;). I will need to download them from her camera when I see her next and add some more then.)
