Beautiful daughter of mine,
Time goes so fast. You haven't had monthly posts because mom hardly gets her computer out anymore to write them up, but I haven't stopped with the pictures on your actual day of birth each month!
Ellie, you are a delight these days. A true little person! You have strong opinions about your need to be entertained and your food options, but you are usually pretty content. You have had a few bouts with needing MAMA and only MAMA. It seems to correspond with when a new tooth is about to pop through (you have two now), but your family and our friends were none to happy when one of those weeks corresponded with when everyone was here for Thanksgiving and wanted to love on you!
Food. Oh my. I think we are about to stop with the baby stuff all together. You would spit/throw up any single pureed foods. You did better with the ones with several foods mixed together, but your favorite thing is whatever we are eating, no matter how much spice it has! You enjoyed our chili and some tamales the other day. It's making mealtimes much easier, though. I just give you what Drew has, but cut into smaller pieces!
The one thing that has surprised me about you is your ability to go from 0 to 50 overnight. One day? Not rolling over at all. The next day? Log rolling around the floor. One day not sitting up. The next day sitting up for 45 minutes at a time. You are working on crawling now, and I actually see more "steps" towards that than I have in the past, but I fully expect you to skip that "rocking back and forth on my knees" part and move straight into bolting across a room to get whatever you want.
Dear child, you have 0 schedule, and I have no idea whose fault that is. Some days you nap 30 times, 30 minutes each. Some days you take a pretty long afternoon nap (which is why I am writing this now!), and some days you prefer not to sleep at all. You generally go to sleep around 6:30pm and wake up between 6 and 6:30pm, so at least that is constant.
You LOVE LOVE LOVE your brother. I love when I am in another room and can hear you two laughing together. It's my very favorite sound in the world these days. He will make you laugh or hold your hand during wagon rides, and it makes my heart happy. HOWEVER. I do apologize that you are the front line of him learning to share. Guess that comes with the territory, but we get to do a lot of teaching him at your expense when he rips something from your hands.
Precious child, you delight our hearts-- all of us. Life is better because of you.
Love,
Mama
