After Elsie turned one, I stopped posting about her monthly accomplishments. However, I feel like in the past two months she has changed so much!! Everyday she is growing up even more and becoming more and more independent. She is slowly leaving the baby stage and turning into a toddler. As much as it makes my eyes well up with tears (the poor thing will always be stuck with an overly sentimental mother), I get so happy to see her turn into her own little person! Words cant not express how grateful I am to have such a sweet little girl in my life and how blessed I am to be her mama! Being Elsie's mommy has taught me so much about myself and life in general. I feel like it has pushed me to become the person I have always wanted to be!
Our little Elle is quite the character! Oh boy is she just like her daddy in some ways! She is over the top social, loves love loves other kids, loves to ham it up for the camera and an audience, is so curious all the time, busy as they come, loves to laugh and giggle, loves to explore and loves to be on the go!
Here are some of my favorite things she has been doing...
-Anything that could even remotely resemble a phone she loves. She picks it up and says "Aello" Oh I love i!!
-She is a mountain goat! Seriously this girl can climb onto anything! The other day I knew she had crawled into the bathroom. She always manages to get into the tub so I went into get her and she was perched on all fours on top of the top in the corner where the shampoo goes. I have no idea how she even managed that one! She also crawled into her shopping cart the other day. Its like a 4x4 inch space but she managed to get in. She also loves stairs and has the funnies way of going down them. Unfortunately she crawled towards some a little too fast, lost her footing and tumbled down 15 stairs. It was the saddest thing but luckily Doctor Schimdt checked her out and she was fine!!
-She knows lots of animal sounds although she wont always say them for me, especially not on demand. She knows what a doggy says (both ruff and haha), a kitty, a cow, a horse, a sheep. a bunny (hop hop), a lizard, and we are working on bird and fish.
-Elsie is a book worm! She loves her books. I can leave her in her room and she will sit in her closet and play with her books for an hour!
-No no and ya ya are words we hear all day long! She also says dada, mama. nana, please, and bebe.
-She loves to play outside, especially when all the kids are out. She will sit on the swing with me forever and just watch all the kids play. Then there are time she thinks she is 5 and wants to run around with all the big kids. The child will not walk yet, she knows how to take steps but I am convinced she knows she gets around faster by crawling she this is what she prefers. She will crawl around outside in the grass, dirt, sidewalk, she tries to go for the street, whatever she needs to do to play with the kids. She loves barbie jeeps. All our neighbors have jeeps and every so often they will take her on a ride. She loves it! So now every time we pass a barbie jeep she wants to get in it.
-She is such a ham! She loves going to church and putting on a show. Sometimes she is the only baby in sunday school and priesthood, so she loves to go and around and do silly things to make people laugh! She also loves to go around during sacrament and see what all the other kids are doing.
- Her new thing lately is to take some of her clothes of my clothes and wrap the around her face or shoulders like a cape. It is the funnies thing! It reminds Dave of his old home video "old grandma", where they make Eric do the same thing.
-She is not insisting on feeding herself with a spoon. My child is the worlds messiest eater. It is a joke! Every time she is done eating I need to vacuum and mop the floor, wash her clothes and put her in the bath.
- She know how to do puzzles and shape sorters all by herself! The other she was playing in the toy room and I walked in and saw her putting the shapes in the puzzle all by herself!
-She loves to jabber all the time, even to herself!
-She gets so excited so easily! She will be in her high chair and all of the sudden start to shake it and clap her hands and shake her head and start to giggle so hard! Such a character!
-Loves it when you tickled her hand, especially when she is drinking her night time bottle
-Sticks her tongue out when she is focusing on something
-My favorite thing he does it pat all of her babies and stuffed animals. She will bring them to her face, hug them, pat them and say "Ahhh" It is adorable!!
I can't believe how fast she has grown up in these past few moths! She is on one nap and is sleeping like a champ in her room! No more dark basement! She graduated to her crib!! We love this little girl and her golden personality! She is the light of our lives-so sweet, so outgoing, so fun!!
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