Time is flying by crazy fast and it amazes me that our daughter will be turning 2 in less than three months. Today was a nice opportunity to stop and smell the roses and enjoy time together as a family. We are not always afforded many chances to fully enjoy a day together as a family so we take them whenever possible. The transition from infant to toddler is a beautiful process that continually amazes, challenges, and surprises me. Motherhood is the greatest gift that I could have ever been given and I take it for granted far too often.
Every day is an adventure and it is fun to see Ellie's personality unfold. She is in a very sweet stage right now although she has her trying times too. Ellie observes everything and she is having a little bit of a Monkey See, Monkey Do moment. Her favorite thing to do is to sit at her table in her playroom and talk on the phone. She says hello, jabbers, laughs, says mom, and then says bye. My mom noticed that she says bye exactly how I say bye when I am getting off the phone. Ellie has loved the phone for a long time. Daddy calls us every day from work and Ellie delights in talking to daddy or anyone else on the phone. She even loves to give kisses on the phone. Her other favorite thing to do is to play with her baby. She kisses baby, calls baby by name, changes baby's diaper, hugs baby, feeds baby, and takes baby everywhere. Playing with baby will be good practice for when we decide to add to the family. Ellie's vocabulary grows daily. Everywhere we go Ellie loves to point out the colors of all the things we say. She knows all her colors but she can only say red, blue, yellow, pink, grey, and purple. Today at the playground she kept saying red and blue over again describing the colors of the pretend cars. As I type she is naming her colors with Daddy. Car is another favorite word to say but another funny word she enjoys saying is fry.
Ellie loves fries. Fries are probably her absolute favorite food item and she loves to say the word fry. When we drive by a fast food establishment, she shouts, "Fry!" from her car seat. She is currently at the toddler stage where she only eats what she wants to eat whenever she wants to eat it- lots of fun! Of course she never misses an opportunity to eat fries- go figure. Ellie is an adorable toddler and she is quite curious, lovable, cranky, enthusiastic, sweet, contemplative, funny, stinky, and just darn cute. I try to savor each moment that I can because Monday quickly turns into Sunday and it always seems to be a new month. I'm so glad that I have been blessed to stay home with Ellie and to catch all these sweet moments.
