Random Pics/Update

Ellie's 12 month (I can't believe it!) appointment is right around the corner, so I will do a full update then. However in the meantime, I can't resist leaking some details on our little Chatty Cathy now. Ellie is building her vocabulary it seems every week. Right now she says consistently:

• Mom or Momma


• Dada


• Ball


• Yummm


• Uh oh!


• Kee-kat (a.k.a. Cat)


• Tra la la la laaa (learned from one of her books where a little ferret named Haha sings at the end -- Ellie's version sounds more like "wa wa waa")


• Ga! (her version of "dog"...have no idea why)


• Bye bye (with a cute wave of the hand)


• Hi (ditto)

I swear the other day she tried to say "seven" when she was playing with a counting toy, but that might be a proud mother's skewed perception. :)

Oh, and here are random pics from the last month or so, in no particular order:

Ellie with her face smushed against her drum lid during music time.

This is usually the mischievous smile we get just before she does something she knows is a "No-no"...

"It is sooo fun when Dad blow dries my hair!"

Speaking of hair: The poor girl had no chance in the hair department between Jeremy's curly, 'fro-y locks, and my coarse and frizzy ones. Talk about bed head!

Blog Update

Our deepest apologies to all those Ellie-fans out there: Our laptop died a painful death, and then its shiny, new replacement died a VERY premature death (!!). I will try to take some pictures in the next few weeks in order to fully chronicle The Girl's first year as an infant -- believe it or not (we certainly don't!), Ellie's official induction as a "Toddler" is right around the corner...