Ella

My beautiful big brown eyed baby girl is the sweetest thing I have ever known. She is definitely my baby and will always be. I don't even know how to describe how sweet she is but she is such a sweetheart. Maybe because her big brother is such a WILD CHILD it makes her look especially sweet but she really is. She loves to grab me by the face with her sweaty dirty hands and pull me towards her and kiss me on the lips all day everyday. She does the same thing when she wants ALL my attention and I am not giving it to her. She will pull our faces close together so I have no other choice but to listen to what she is saying 100%! She LOVES her Jacker Man and although he is mean to her she misses him when he isn't around. When she wakes up from her nap and he is still sleeping she tries to go pound on his door until he wakes up! She is my tomboy who loves shooting things with Jack and playing with all sorts of boy toys. I have been trying to introduce some "girlie" things to her and show her how girl toys can be fun too but we are making little progress! I bought her 2 princess wands last weekend at a yard sale and they quickly turned into swords and guns and have gotten a lot of use by her and Jack.

She is such a lovey and and always wants to call Grandma Rosie and Boppy on the phone. She spends hours talking to them on the phone and the conversation is always the same thing about seeing Shamu and making him splash! Jack was completely potty trained by this age but she has almost zero interest in learning how to use the potty! A time or two she has "accidentally" went in the potty when I have had her sitting there but for the most part she is not interested. It wouldn't be any kind of big deal to keep her in a diaper if she would keep the dang thing on. One minute I will have her completely dressed and the next minute she will be streaking through the house in her birthday suit!

She talks SO much and it is cute some of the things she comes up with. At the store no matter what the gender the cashier is she always tells them "thank you much lady!" We get a lot of giggles out of people with that one. People always ask me how old she is because she talks a lot but she is such a little peanut without much hair so she looks way too little to have such a good vocabulary!
My least favorite thing about this stage is that she is now getting an opinion about what she wants to wear each day. She goes to the closet and tries to pick out what she is going to wear. I am not ready to give her that choice yet so some days it is a struggle. If she had a choice it would be everyday that she wore either her "strawberry" shirt or her "fish" dress. I have though been a little bit more lax about her footwear selection so we can often be seen sporting her black rain boots with many different outfits, rain or shine! :)

I just love her so much and I am enjoying every minute of having a little girl to spoil!