Playing in Winchester

Childrens Museum with Grandma Sue

Easter

Ella enjoyed dyeing eggs with grandma. She thought it was so much fun to stir the dye in each cup very quickly and then of course it splashed everywhere and I would cringe (I mean colored dye everywhere...stressful for OCD clean people). We hid a gazillion plastic eggs which contained toys, stickers, goldfish, teddy grahams, princess(lucky) charms, mini M&M's, animal crackers...you know your normal Easter findings ;) and Ella loved finding them and putting them in her basket. She was not too concerned what was in them, so I conveniently removed the M&M's for her:) She did have a chocolate bunny in her Easter basket and 8 books, bubbles, little toys etc. yes no candy, BUT she does not even know what it is, so why start now??? The bunny is at mom's -just no room...Anyway, after Easter at my parents we went to join BT's family and they had another Easter basket for Ella full of goodies! More eggs with goodies in them...goldfish, teddy grahams, cheese crackers, animal crackers (Yes I have a very sweet mother-in-law that follows my anal rules!)
A great trip home overall, as you will see in more pics. I loved spending time with mom(maw), dad(bada) Sue, Bt's mom (maw), Bt's great grandma, my grandma and Bo (NO BO!). Pics of Bo will follow as well because -well he and Ellla are siblings for sure!

Easter pics to come....

Leap Frog

STATS

34 3/4" tall
27 lbs.
Full of sugar, spice and occasional tantrums!

ZOO

We took advantage of the warm weather and went to the zoo today with Ella's friends Charlie and Sophia (and my friends, Melissa and Kim). Ella went once before when she was a lot younger, but wasn't too impressed. Today, she made every animal noise + sign that she knew with the appropriate animal of course. If she wasn't sure what the animal was-well then it was a dog :) So of course none of my pictures look like we were at the zoo, but I did not want to put up just animal pics because this is Ella's blog after all. So here are pics of her running around with Charlie and some at the house. It is difficult to take pics of a moving toddler!











I don't like to tell people all the stuff she is doing, because I don't want to be that mom....but since mostly family reads this I guess I can brag some :)
At my last count she says approx. 65 words (not counting her numerous animal sounds) and at least that many signs. She can ID all the parts of her body, identify a few shapes and count up to 3. Not bad for a one and a half year old!

Valentines Day

Cutie

I've Got My New Shoes On...

Blue Eyes

I can't get over how blue her eyes are! BT & I both have hazel eyes, so it will be interesting to see if they change or not.

Boom!

Pretty Girl

Slacker

Yes I am a slacker. I have not posted in *gasp* almost a month. I know lots of people think I sit around watching tv and coloring with Ella, but it is nothing of the sort. Ella and I are at Gymboree or some sort of play date at least 3X a week. The rest of time is spent cleaning, doing laundry, running errands, blah, blah.....Anyway, I will try my hardest to do better with updates. The silly girl is doing so many new things. When I have time I will make a brag list ;)

Making cookies with grandma

Ella helped mom make Christmas cookies. I do believe Ella's were by far the most festive! Surprisingly she never tried to taste the sprinkles or cookies. The deprived child has NO idea what real sugar is. Sugar free, organic animal crackers are a treat for her lol!

more xmas pics