Num Num

Ellie loves ice cream. Check out her cute little chocolate mustache.

Horsey

Ellie was drawing on her whiteboard. She stopped pointed at her whiteboard and said, "Horsey". I was totally amazed because it actually does look like a horse. Of course there are scribbles mixed in with the horse because she is only 22 months. Ellie is only in her diaper because she ends up with marker on her legs, stomach, hands and if she were wearing clothes it would be on those too. So drawing time is diaper time.

Our Day

I think that Ellie looks so cute in this picture! She is looking more and more like a little girl and not a baby anymore.
Close-up of Ellie and Mommy
Posing for the camera. Ellie's hair is getting long. Today was Dave's day off so we took Ellie to the pool. She loves the pool. It cut into her nap time, so she was asleep before we even got home.
My sweet hubby came home today and totally surprised me with red roses. It made my day. Thank you Dave! I love you!

I Do It

"I do it," is now one of Ellie favorite things to say unless it is something she doesn't want to do then she says, "Mommy do it".
She has recently figured out how to put pants on by herself. Yesterday she got into her drawer that has all her pants and she started putting on the layers. She had on her diaper, a pair of undies, her bottoms for a dress, and her swimsuit bottoms. Ellie puts them on but still does not try to take them off. Then we went to Target yesterday and I was buying Ellie a fabric swim diaper (cheaper then buying more disposible). Well- Ellie decides that she needs to sit down in the middle of the store and put on her new swim diaper- I didn't let her so I am walking through Target with the very loud crying toddler that everybody stops to look at.
Ellie also associates Target with string cheese because we buy her a string cheese to eat when we go there, so as soon as we start walking around the store Ellie starts saying, "Cheese please. Cheese please." Yesterday after she finished her cheese she says, "More cheese please." I had to say no, but I wonder how many she would have eaten if I would have let her keep going. It is a good thing that this is the only store that she associates something with and we don't go there very often.

Beep Beep

Today Ellie was pretending that this box was her car. She calls cars beep beeps.
Ellie loves to look at pictures on the camera, so after I snap a picture she always has to walk over and look at the picture. This makes trying to get a picture of Ellie a process because she usually only sits for one second before she stands up and walks over to me. I have to be quick.

Updates

28 Weeks! We are now in the 3rd Trimester! I have my gestational diabetes test (more blood work- not fun) and doctor's appointment on Thursday and then it switches to the every two week appointments.
Ellie and Daddy playing on the computer together.
Ellie on the 4th of July. We had BBQ for dinner with Dave's family. Dave sold 6 cars this weekend!

Friends

Ellie's best friend is Noah. She is always talking about Noah and Noah's mom says that he talks about Ellie all the time too. Ellie gets so excited to play with Noah and to see him at church. It is nice for Ellie to have a little friend. Today Ellie and Noah went swimming and jumped on the trampoline. It was Ellie's first time on a trampoline, but Noah was an expert.