Just a little update

Ella has started brushing her teeth all by herself. I gave her a big girl toothbrush the other day and she just started copying me and brushing away. I just tell her its time to go brush our teeth, and she gets so excited and says, "Tee" (teeth). She actually seems to be doing a good job all by herself too. She enjoys it so much, she refuses to give me the toothbrush back. Eventually I do have to take the toothbrush away (being the mean mom that I am) because she starts finding other things that need brushing too...like the bathtub or the floor. I just can't wait until she's old enough to help me clean house!

Ella is definitely going to be a chatter box. She is now trying to copy so many of our words and is just amazing us with her vocabulary. She even started copying the letters of the alphabet the other day. Of course John has to come in and confuse her by trying to explain that the letter "W" is just like the letter "M", except it is upside down! Silly dad! John has also been teaching Ella how to play the guitar and she is getting very good at picking at the strings, and just recently learned how to use a pick!

John continues to study all the time (except when he is procrastinating and reading books on how to learn, how to speed read, etc). If he doesn't know how to learn by now, I think he's in big trouble! The bar is now less than 2 weeks away! So its definitely crunch time. And I am getting no computer time at home since he is always on it. So still no new pictures.


If you get a minute, go check out my friend Stephanie's photography page:

http://www.sfisherphotography.com/

She's the one that takes those beautiful pictures of Ella and there are a couple of pictures of Ella on her web page from her last photo shoot. You'll click to her photography page, then galleries at the bottom, then little ones. She's in 2 of the pictures there.

Say a little prayer for John!!!!!!

Finally!

Little miss Ella has finally decided that it is time to walk. She still won't let us help her much with it, but she'll stand up in the middle of the room and toddle over to us, and seems to really be enjoying walking! Of course she still prefers to walk on her knees or crawl, but every day her walking is getting better as she is wanting to walk more. Yesterday John was dropping her off at daycare, and they walked into the room together, and Ella walked from John all the way across the room to her lead teacher Mrs. Laura Lee. She just seems too grown up these days, it is really making me sad!! In the mornings when I am getting ready she'll just hang out in her bean bag chair with her cheerios and sippy cup of milk, watching her cartoons. It just seems like she should still be a little baby!

We left our camera in Wetumpka at Elizabeth's house a couple of weeks ago at Janet's bridal shower, so we haven't been able to take any new pictures lately. But here's a really cute picture of Ella and John's mom taken at the shower: