The tree is up, the stockings are hung, now all we're missing are the gifts under the tree. We have had a pretty busy month. Ellie is enjoying the Christmas decorations and loves playing with the ornaments. I had a cookie exchange this past Monday and invited all of my mommy friends that are stay at home moms (bc it was in the middle of the day). We all had a lot of fun. Ellie has been a little sick, as have I, so she was pretty much stuck to me like glue :-) She is such a momma's girl and I LOVE IT!! She is getting so big, although she is still a very petite girl like her momma. I guess that's the only thing she got from me because she got her blue eyes from her daddy and she looks just like my mom.
Ellie has been waving bye bye, clapping, playing patty cake, and making the "number one" sign. It's funny because I have always held up my index finger and told her to "wait" and then out of the blue she started doing it. It is sooooo cute!! She's also saying "mama", "dada", "grr", "baba", and all the other two letter sounds. She is very vocal. She isn't actually crawling yet. I think she may skip it all together. She will go a couple of crawls forward but that's it. She mainly goes backwards and then rolls to get where she wants to be. Every time I turn around she is under a piece of furniture :-)
Ellie and I joined a Mommy and Me playgroup and have been enjoying that. We went to gymboree with the group last week for the first time and it was pretty fun. I think I'll wait until she is crawling or walking before I take her back because she pretty much just played with a ball and I have balls at home. I don't necessarily feel like paying $10 for her to play with a ball :-) There is a little girl in the group that is a week younger than Ellie and Ellie seems to like her. Oh, I have noticed, now that we are around other children, that Ellie is quite aggressive. If she wants something or someone, she goes for it. There is no holding her back. Her personality is in full swing and I love it. She always wants kisses from mommy, lets you know what she feels, loves her daddy and grandmomma, and is very sweet. Even when she is exhausted she is quite sweet. Yesterday we were at a Christmas party/meeting with my mom and Ellie was so well behaved the entire time. All the women kept saying how good she was and how cute she is :-) She is so sociable, I love it!
Well, I better go so I can put up a couple of pics. We are supposed to be at a Christmas party this very minute but Ellie has decided that today is the day she is going to take a long nap and I am not going to wake her up.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
