Where do I begin with this precious little girl. She turned 2 on July 12th. We spent her 2nd b'day in Hawaii. She is so fun and already has such a personality. :D Did I mention how much I love her cute 2 year old body. I think it is so cute how she moves around and handles herself.
Last week she woke up two days in a row with a dry diaper. I got her on the potty so fast and she went first thing. She loved it! She likes to be a big girl. Really she likes to do and be what her siblings are doing. Monkey see, monkey do around this house.
Ellie has a mind of her own. She does not like to have a picture taken of her unless you really catch her off guard. She will not turn and smile big for any camera. She wants to be holding the camera. She is very good about eating (just discovered she loves broccoli) and sleeping. She loves to cuddle and be rocked. She sucks her right thumb and loves it. I'm so glad I have pictures of her sucking it. It will be fun to look back on in years to come. She loves her mom and dad. She is a great sleeper and so far has always been. She takes a big almost 3 hour nap during the day and still goes to bed very well at night. She has a favorite blankie and nothing can replace it. She pushes any other blanket away if we try. She is the only one that has done that. It's cute. She will lay on it and carry it all over the house. Everywhere if I let her take it. It stays in the car if it gets that far. I do have limits. She loves to get into my bathroom drawers and bring me things. Isn't everything cute when they are the last?!! :D
She is becoming more and more independent. She loves to sit up to the counter and color in a coloring book. She feels very big I'm sure. She can climb and buckle up in her seat at the table, she is talking more and more, she can drink out of a big girl cup very well, she gets mad when I say no to something and then will go and hit it or stomp on it, she loves to take a bath, is not afraid of the pool and loves the water, loves her car seat and doesn't give any hassle when she has to get in it, and loves shoes. She has to show everyone her shoes by lifting her foot to anyone she meets. It's very cute. Her feet are oh so small.
If Ellie gets hurt, she loves to say it was Casey who did it and then laughs. He did something one time and now when we ask her, "what happened" or "who did it" she will say Tatey (Casey). Casey thinks it's really funny that she can tell on him. Ellie tells for sure! She is a fun little gal to have in our family. We all love her and enjoy her 2 year old isms. She is by far the easiest one of the bunch. Ahhhh!
Her most recent thing was sticking a tic tac up her nose. It's been abut a month ago now. It went up so far that when she sniffed it went all the way up to where I couldn't see it anymore. Of course, I was worried and didn't know what to do. Her nose started running out of that one side and the smell was sooooo.....minty. :D I had tried getting it out but it is about the exact size of her nostril. I wasn't making progress and she was fussing so I decided to call Todd. He was in a bishopric meeting and they so kindly stopped to help me out. We have a couple of doctor's in our ward and one being a retired pediatric surgeon so the bishop said he would call him for me. In the meantime, she is sniffing and I'm just wishing I could easily ask her to blow her nose and the issue would be solved. All of sudden Casey said, Mom, it came out and as I turned to see, he was handing her the tic tac again to eat. She ate it. The dr. in our ward said it can be a very serious thing and you do want to make sure that it comes out (at some point either by taking her to the emergency or myself). The other dr. the bishop called said for me to call him in the future because he has so many tools for retrieving food or objects. It was pretty funny to think about after the fact. Some of the men who were in that meeting started calling her tic tac.
She loves her brothers and sister and will hug them. She is a precious daughter and we are so blessed to have her in our family.
Happy B'day Miss Ellie Jayne girl!!