19-Months Old Today!

This little, sweet pea turned 19 months old today!  It's hard to believe how fast this little girl is growing up.  She continues to be a nonstop, bundle of energy that is everywhere, into everything, and tries to do everything her brother and sister can do!  Her greatest discovery of the past month is figuring out how she can push the white chair from my kitchen desk anywhere in the kitchen.  She then climbs up onto the chair and can reach anything on our kitchen counters or kitchen island.  As a result, nothing is safe from her in this room and I can never turn my back for too long for fear of what she is getting into!  Oh Ella.  Ella loves playing with her brother and sister and wants to go with them where ever they go.  Whenever it is time to leave to go somewhere, she will run to the laundry room, grab her shoes, and bring them to me.  She is devastated if someone in the family leaves without her!  Whenever Ella is truly happy, she runs around the house shouting, "Weeeeeeeeeeh!"  She also calls for Lia after she goes to school every day by shouting, "Weeee-uh!" at the top of her lungs.  It's so cute.  Ella is still taking one, afternoon nap a day at the same time that I put Logan down (which I love) and sleeps for about 11 hours a night.  The big change is that we lost our fabulous, voracious eater.  After months and months of eating everything on her plate and then wanting food from our plates, she has turned picky. As a result, there are several food items a day that she refuses to eat.  As sad as this is, experience has taught me that this is just a phase.  Ella continues to learn a few more words this month.  To date, these are the words Ella can say:  uh oh, mama, papa, Weee-uh (for Lia), ya-ya (for pacifier), more, hi, hello, bye bye, no, eye, bee, uh-uh, thank you, "there you go," poo poo, pee pee, upee (for up), go, baby, quack quack, meeow, mooo, cheep cheep, the buuny sound (sniffing), and the elephant sound.  She says, "uh-uh," several times a day when resonding "no" to a question.  It's quite funny.  Ella stills loves to cuddle her soft, pink blanket and any soft animal.  She also has really taken a liking to baby dolls.  She loves being read to and enjoys any one-on-one attention she can get.  She loves taking baths with her siblings and never wants to get out at the end of bath time.  She also loves reading books every day before her nap and bed time.  She is also doing a really good job in the nursery at church and will quickly run off to play with the toys when we first bring her into there.  We sure love our Ella Avalon!