Ellie is 14 months!
This month literally flew by--we are having a wonderful summer and I'm getting sad to see it coming to an end and a routine returning.
At 14 months...
Ellie's personality is absolutely blooming and in full force. She is somewhat of an intense little girl--she has one of the shortest tempers I have ever come across in a young child, yet she can super giggly and silly the next second. We really never know what we're going to get with her!
I have no idea Ellie's weight/height. She feels heavier to me as my arm gets tired when I hold her for long periods of time--but that's my only gauge, which is less than scientific.
She's wearing:
Clothes: 6 and 9 months
PJs: 12 months (she now wears some 2-pc pj's which makes her look entirely too grown up!)
Diapers: size 3 (I think we'll be in these forever!)
Her hair has grown a lot this month and her hair bows actually have a little something to cling to.
Some of Ellie's favorite things to do:
peeking under furniture and peering around corners
playing with her sound machine. She knows how to turn it on and it makes her SO sad when she does it because she thinks it means she has to take a nap.
swimming--I wish we had gotten her enrolled in lessons this summer. we still might in the fall.
She is sleeping in later lately--typically until 8 or so. She may wake up earlier than that but she really loves to lay in her crib and suck her thumb and rub her lovie on her face for a little while before she gets up.
Words: dog, doggy, daddy, tiger, ball (said 1x)
She is OBSESSED with dogs. She sees them on random commercials or hear a bark and will yell out "doggy!". She is also doing a good job recognizing them in her books.
She loves looking at family pictures--there is one from her baptism on the refrigerator and she looks at it every single time after she eats and gets so excited!
She took her first steps this month and she will take a couple everyday but she has absolutely no balance. And she hates practicing--when we pull her up to walk, she just sits back down when we let go. Walking to me is one of those things that I want her to do just to check it off our "milestone" checklist, but I know once she's walking full time it's going to be exhausting--so we're just trying to enjoy the stage that she is in now and know that she'll walk when she's ready.
She loves playing with my tape measure--she throws it around her neck and crawls around with it trailing behind her.
She has a Fisher Price dollhouse that she loves pressing the buttons that make noise.
She's into smelling things (we'll tell her to "smell the flower"), waving at everyone in public and clapping when we say "yay ellie!"
She is also obsessed with balls. Probably her favorite toy.
She has learned to ride in the car so much better, thanks to the DVD player and "Animals in our World"--we have watched it approximately 45 times in the past month.
She is holding up her play phone to her ear to pretend to talk.
She is extremely attached to her lovie. She has two--a white lambie and a pink elephant. One stays in the crib, the other in the car. She also has a blankie with satin that she sleeps and rides with as well.
When she's tired she sucks her thumb and weaves the lovie through her fingers so that she can rub it on her face--and she sticks the lovie's ears up her nose. weird and hilarious.
She's finding her belly button when we ask where it is.
Favorite foods:
granola bars--would eat them all day, everyday if I let her. I limit her to one a day, much to her dismay
broccoli, butter beans, green beans--she actually loves vegetables and eats them better than fruit
She drinks fruit soy milk or vanilla soy milk. Will not touch whole milk so we're working with what we've got!
Thank you for making our lives full of fun and love! We couldn't love you more!
