Growing Up

Our little baby is growing up.
She is getting a personality of her very own, and developing a love for shoes and clothes.

She also loves to accessorize.

5 on Friday

I know... I missed the 5 on Friday last week. I apologize. I have no excuse. Maybe this week's will make up for it.

1. We had a busy Easter Sunday. Ellie got to wear her special Easter dress to church. I was worried about how she would behave during church since Daddy was playing bass in the choir and it was a later time than usual (right around lunch and nap-time). She must have known it was a special day, because she was an angel.

2. Instead of just candy we filled Ellie's Easter Eggs with coins, quarters and silver dollars. She loved it! Her 'piggy' has been fed a lot lately. I think next year we will just do all coins. It is cheaper than candy and lasts longer (say college savings...).

3. Speaking of her 'piggy', she loves him and loves to feed him. We raid Daddy's coin jar, she makes sure the piggy has plenty to eat and then she gives him a kiss good-bye. It is super cute and we like to think we are teaching her a little bit about saving for the future.

4. Ellie is becoming quite the helper. She loves to throw away trash... any trash she can find. On Saturday she tried to throw away her sock. Daddy had to tell her that her sock was not trash and should not be thrown away. Now I know where the missing socks go...

5. The potty training has kind of gone away. Ellie knows when she has to go and tells us. But she either doesn't get to the potty soon enough or she doesn't want to sit on the potty long enough to go. Since she is still young, we haven't pushed it. I still like that she knows when she has to go--- it is a start.

6. BONUS- On Easter Nick had gone to church early so it was just Ellie and I getting ready. Since I figured church would be full and Ellie already had a sweater on over her dress, I didn't put a jacket on her. That did not go over very well. She stood at the top of the stairs with tears streaming down her face because she wanted her coat on to go bye-bye. She kept on crying until we were part way to church. Good thing everyone at church thought the tears in her eyes were very cute... Mommy did not.

7. BONUS Part 2- See #7 and realize that Ellie is very stubborn and gets upset when things do not go as she has them planned to. She may look like Daddy, but that mentality comes from Mommy.

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

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Love, Eleanor Ann

Game Over... The Sequel

Nick's co-workers were kind enough to give him this shirt to wear for his Bachelor party.
You cannot tell from the picture, but the man is frowning and the woman is smiling.
Nick really likes the shirt and still wears it.Ellie decided she needed to be included in the shirt as well.
So she improvised with some of her stickers.

*I apologize for the placing of one of the stickers, I didn't have anything to do with it.

Crayons

I picked up crayons for Ellie. They are for 1 1/2 years plus---
pretty close to Ellie's age.

She loved them... eating them that is.

I guess we will go back to the markers that are for ages 2+, they seem to work better.

Grandpa Larson

Someone got very spoiled by Grandpa Larson staying with us.
The question is... was it Ellie or Grandpa Larson.

For Cousin Ruby

When my niece, Ruby, was visiting the other month she asked where Ellie's pacifier was. I told her that "Ellie doesn't like binkies." Because Ellie never has really taken a binkie.

A few days after Ruby's visit she informed her Daddy that "Ellie doesn't like binkies."

Well... Ellie found one of her old binkies as I was doing some cleaning the other day...

and she liked it.