We celebrated this sweet baby girl's 2nd birthday on Thursday, October 3rd. Yes, she is and will always be my baby girl. I've said this before and it continues to ring true. She completed our family just perfectly and makes us all so happy. The perfect baby sister. The kids love their little sister and she makes me smile every day. She has this spark and love of life and laughter that is so contagious and brightens every day. At least 10 times a day you can hear someone telling her how funny or silly (and CUTE!) she is.
Her hair is finally getting long enough that I can do more than a small pony tail on top (basically to pull her bangs out of her face). She loves to be outside! These pictures really capture her personality as I chased her around the yard trying to convince her to sit still and look at the camera. She just wanted to prance around the pretty flowers and giggle and squeal.
Time for cake and ice cream and presents!
Some things about Ellie at age 2:
-Still sucks her left index and middle fingers upside down.
-Still wants a banana first thing in the morning after getting out of her crib.
-She imitates or repeats EVERY thing you do or say. She is such a smart cookie and picks up on things so quickly. It's amazing to me how she observes everything around her and then suddenly she is doing things that I've never seen her do.
-Example of above: One day she was downstairs with Rob. I watched her come up the stairs with a cup, go to the refrigerator, get water out of the door dispenser, go back to the stairs and yell down "Here go daddy!" and then walked down to give it to him. I asked Rob later if he asked her to get him some water and he said "no, she just drank the rest of my water and then left with the cup." She amazes me, that little one!
-When it was Rob's birthday back in July, we put the candles on the cake and she started singing "Happy to you" before anyone even started singing Happy Birthday.
-She is becoming more independent than I would like. She helps herself to whatever she wants to eat or drink out of the refrigerator (yogurt, apples, string cheese) or pantry closet (cereal, granola bars, pretzels), even if it means finding something to climb up on to reach it.
-She LOVES naptime and bedtime. She has always been an awesome sleeper (sleeping through the night for 10-12 hours since she was 3 months old). When you tell her it's naptime, she runs to her crib and says "ni-night." When it's bedtime, she goes and finds everyone in the house to give them a hug and kiss and tell them "ni-night" and then runs into her room.
-The only time the above sleeping habits were not true was for a brief period this summer. Rob was out of town for about two weeks (home in the middle of it for a couple days). While he was gone, I had Ellie sleep with me. It took her about a month to realize she no longer got to sleep in my bed. When it was bedtime or naptime, she would say "Mommy bed" and threw some pretty ugly fits. Luckily she's back to her crib-loving self.
-She likes to sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
-She loves books and has a few that she can "read" along with you.
-My favorite little game to play with her is to hear her yell "Where are you mommy?" and I answer back and she keeps saying it until she finds me and comes running and laughing. Maybe I should teach her Marco Polo.
-She LOVES babies and dolls. She squeals "baby!" when she sees babies in the store and loves when she sees our friends' little baby, Lily, at church. With two older sisters, there are plenty of dolls around but those older sisters don't like to share their babies so she has to sneak into their room to play with them. I need to teach her to cover her tracks so they don't get mad when they get home from school and discover she's been in their rooms.
-Stats: 27 lbs (65%) and 35 in. (80%)
(P.S. Yes, I'll be playing some serious catch up from April to now but I wanted to get this post of Ellie up before she's three!)
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