(Those of you who know Disney Channel will know "Safety Patrol".) Ella is our little safety patrol around the house. We have kept closet doors, cupboards and doors closed if we don't want Ella to get into things. Now, if we ever leave a door open, Ella goes around and closes them. She's quick to close cupboards and closets. Today, I left my hot air curling iron on the bathroom counter to warm up and then got distracted by email. Ella came up to me, "Mommy! Mommy!" and was pointing to her hair. I followed her to the bathroom and she stood there saying "Mommy" and pointing to my curling iron. What a smart little girl she is! A lapse of judgment on my part but luckily Ella is good enough not to touch it and it doesn't get hot enough to cause any damage.
She's also learned how to say her name and will say it whenever she does something she shouldn't. When she's getting into mischief, she'll belt out "Ella!" I guess we've been saying her name so much when we try to stop her from doing something, she's taken to saying it as a warning to us. She will point to pictures of herself and say "Ella" but it seems to be mostly repeating what we always say to her: "Ella!" which translated means come here, don't touch, no, stop....
Here are the girls in their new pj's...
Ella's new quilt I made...
Future profession perhaps....
With her new outfit from Grandma and Granddad...
Classic Ella....
We were spoiled rotten... Ella especially: a new laptop, cell phone, books, DVD's, teddy bear, shoes, slippers, pj's, clothes, music flower, Leap frog... the list goes on. Ron got his XBox360 and Nascar game and I have a new watch, pink laptop case and a spa day. Yippie! Santa has been very good to us this year!
And because there are just too many photos to chose from, here's a slide show...
Trying to figure out Ella's new laptop...
The Groovin' Flower...
We Wish You A Merry Christmas,
We Wish You A Merry Christmas...
And a Happy New Year.
Grandpa arrived safely on Tuesday evening and Ella has been on her best behavior, showing her grandpa all the things she's learned. We went shopping yesterday and braved some of the shops and even a mall for lunch - these last minute shoppers are crazy!
Ella has croup cough. She started on Wed. night with a bit of a cough and runny nose. During the day she is her great, energetic self; Grandpa's been taking her to the playground. Last night was what I'm hoping was the worst of it. Her "barking seal" cough was waking her up and at 10:30pm she was up for good, so exhausted but unable to sleep. I brought her to bed with me (Daddy was working) and cuddled her until 1:30am when she finally passed out for a little bit. Her cough is quite scary sounding, and must hurt her throat as every fit of coughing had her agitated and crying.
I was up most of the night with her and finally around 3am she was asleep until morning. All day she's been great and so far she's only had one coughing fit that really didn't wake her (and it's 1:30am). Apparently there's no medicine for it, and it should only last 2-5 days. Seeing as tonight is already better, maybe we're coming to the end of it. All I know is I'm sleeping in tomorrow as Daddy and Grandpa have a date with little miss Ella.
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I was cleaning out Ella's closet today and found the box of knit blankets and clothing from my childhood. Here is a dress I had at Ella's age, I'm pretty sure it was knit by my Grandmother Iva, but there is a chance my Great Aunt Wynne could have knit it. Ella is 21 months, as was I in this picture. I'm glad I found it now to capture Ella in it...
