Walking and more!

It's crazy how fast little ones change...the day after my last post Ellison started REALLY walking! She had been taking steps here and there for over a month, but in the past week she has really gotten good on her feet. She will cross whole rooms and even bend down to pick things up. She also stops sometimes to dance or bend down and do her little head stand. She still falls down a lot, but the change in just over a week is unbelievable. She is so awesome!!!

Ellison's other new thing is trying to say her name. She will repeat it a few times in kind of a sing-song pattern. It sounds more like, "Ahhh-da, ahhh-da" but we are pretty her name is what she's going for because my mom says "Elli-son, Elli-son" to her in the same kind of sing-song. She moves her head back and forth when she's saying it too, it's really cute! She chatters constantly and there are a lot of times I will think she says words, but there's nothing else new that she is saying frequently. She does seem to understand a lot of what we are saying though!

Ellison was asked by my cousin Kara and her fiance Kyle to be a flower girl in their wedding! It is next year, right around the time E turns 2. They sent her a cute dress with a sweet little note on it. She said yes, of course!

Still working on getting rid of the bottle completely. We have only been giving her a bottle first thing in the morning and at bedtime. Otherwise she gets milk in a cup (she's gotten a lot better with drinking out of all the various cups we have). She still refuses a cup in the morning and will only take the bottle, but at least she doesn't refuse cups of milk all the time anymore!

Not much else new, other than a little strike against her afternoon nap the last few days! She goes down great for the morning one but will just play in her crib during the afternoon (throws out her blankie and animals, takes her socks off and plays with them, talks to herself, walks around...). A lot of people have told me their kids went to one nap when they turned one, but our pediatrician told us to hold on to two naps as long as we can, and I feel like she still needs two, so I am hoping it's just these couple days!!! (she's actually napping for the second time today as I type this, yay)

Cheering for Mommy and Daddy's alma mater!!! Go MARQUETTE!

*Ellison's Favorites Right Now*

Foods: peas, any kind of berries, mandarin oranges, toast with peanut butter, grilled cheese

Toys: singing mailbox, her barn and zoo, blocks, Elefun ball popper, her Elmos (Lol and Let's Rock), Baby Belle doll, Stride to Ride Puppy ("Kevin")

Other things she loves: Barney, Sesame Street, dogs, climbing the stairs, bath time, music, playing with books and keys, sitting in her pink chairs, making giant messes and then trying to walk through/over them, climbing inside her toy bins, bending herself in half while we try to change her diaper

Should have the CD soon for Ellison's 1 year pics so I will be able to post more of those, and hopefully there will be some good pictures from Easter (although not of me, since I have to work all weeked...bummer) coming soon too! Happy Easter everyone!!!