Little Monkey

This happened a couple of weeks ago but looking back it was quite funny so I thought I should write it down so I don't forget. Jack was at school and Ella and I were running errands. I was making dinner for a neighbor and needed a few more ingredients so I ran into Wal-Mart quickly to grab them. I only had about 20 minutes before I had to be there to pick Jack up from school so I was really trying to hurry. We had only been in the store less than 5 minutes and Ella already started whining. I was hurrying to grab all my produce and rushed on over to the lettuce display. She continues to whine but I know she is securely buckled into the basket so I ignore her and continue looking at the bags of lettuce looking for the freshest looking lettuce. (I think Wal-Marts' produce always looks bad! Anyways...) All of the sudden I turn my head back to the cart just as Ella goes tumbling over the side.... it was like slow motion.... although with lettuce in hand I couldn't quite catch her. Don't worry though she fell over the side.... directly into the entire display of lettuce and then sort of rolled off again in slow motion onto the floor. I almost started to laugh out loud because it was funny and I knew she wasn't hurt. She started crying her best I'm so embarrassed cry as I scooped her and all the lettuce back up off the floor and continued on our way. Lesson learned.... the belt buckle in the shopping cart is not secure enough to ensure my monkey doesn't escape.

CatFish

So I am really late in posting these but I couldn't not put them on the blog! Ryan and Jack spent countless hours at the pond by our house fishing this summer and several fishing trips were successful in catching one of these ugly beasts!


Jack would talk for days about the catfish they would catch and tell every stranger we met all about his fishing adventures!


Occasionally we would follow up the fishing adventures with a white trash marshmallow roast. Since we don't have a firepit we improvised with our charcoal grill, we didn't have any roasting sticks so we tore a willow off our tree and finally we didn't have any big marshmallows so we stuck about ten miniature ones on the willow and roasted them up! Jack loved it but we discovered mini mallows aren't the best roasted... especially ones that have been in the cupboard for about 2 years!

CupCakes

I never thought I would have so much help in the kitchen. I thought cooking was difficult when I only had one helper. Now that Ella insists on getting right in there too it makes for quite the cooking experience!

Sleep Over

Pax thinks he is just one of the kids and always makes himself right at home!

18 Months

Our little Missy turned eighteen months and I of course am behind on blogging about it but I can't forget to write down some of the things she is doing right now. She LOVES playing with other kids. Jack never (and still doesn't very well) liked to play with other kids. He always did his own thing but not Ella Rose. She loves all the little neighborhood kids and gets right into whatever game or thing they are playing with. She still speaks her own language fluently. She can carry on a whole conversation complete with pauses for laughter and voice fluctuation and we have NO IDEA what she is saying. She does have a very limited vocabulary in the english language mostly limited to:
OWIE- (Can you imagine why she knows this one so well?)
NO
MINE
HAT
JACK
Hair
MAMA - (This one means "HEY YOU, I don't care who you are but get me whatever it is I am wanting!")
Bapa (Grandpa)
Mam-Ma (Grandma)
Deer
Nose
Dog
HI
Pax
Mow (cat)

She is our spunky little lady and it is so fun for her personality to start showing through. She still has no hair (grandma Rosie calls her fuzzy)but can point out where her hair should be along with that she knows her nose, ears and eyes.
While Jack is screaming to not go to school she is our social butterfly and is usually screaming when I won't let her stay at Jack's school!

She had her 18 month checkup the other day and she did fantastic. She had the dr wrapped around her finger and he couldn't believe how social she was being with him. The nurse on the other hand Ella now hates courtesy of the 4 shots she stabbed into her leg.
Overall we are just loving our little Ella Rose but I can hardly believe how fast she is growing up. Seriously, where did my baby go? This went by WAY TOO FAST!

Her Stats-
22 lbs - 28th percentile
31.5 inches - 46th percentile