Okay, here goes nothing. This is a 3rd (?) attempt at blogging. It is being fueled by a desperation to document our daily life and "journal" what things Ella and soon to be baby Briggs are doing. My wish is that I continue this so that one day we can reflect back on our family life.
Ella you are almost 2....hard to believe. Tears come to my eyes just typing that. I tell you all of the time, but you are SERIOUSLY the joy of our lives. Gosh you make us smile and laugh all day long. At the end of the night, we are exhausted and we lay in bed and just laugh at the things you have done. Right now, you are TAKING OFF with your words. You are repeating everything we say basically and talking on your own too. The other day we were at the park and a little boy asked you a question and you put your hands out and said, "I don't know." SO funny. You still eat pretty much everything like a champ, last night you ate 2 pieces of pizza. This week we gave you something new- strawberry milk and you went NUTS. You guzzled 2 glasses of it. You have always been observant, but you've started to notice things in the "outside" world too, like yesterday, we were at the pool and a little boy had Diego shorts on and you kept pointing and saying Diego Diego. Your diapers have Dora on them and that's all you talk about when you see a diaper! Right now you LOVE playing outside and at the pool (more on that in a minute), and you are obsessed with your baby dolls (feeding them, putting them in your stroller, giving them your "me me" (aka binkie), rocking them, etc...) and you are equally obsessed with letters and numbers. You count very good with us at the moment, though we've caught you doing it on your own too, we'll get to 5 and you'll say 6, 7, etc.. People comment all of the time on your letters. We went to TJ Maxx a couple of weeks ago and you looked up at the sign on our way in and said "A". You do this ALL of the time on EVERYTHING from cereal to tags. It's hilarious. You are loving the pool. We've been 3 days in a row and you scare me to death. You have NO fear (which is a blessing and a curse). You go down the kiddy slide by yourself without my hand, hold your breath underwater as you smile at me and try to walk into too deep of water. Last night as I put your PJ's on, I could see your little tan lines, so cute. Your hair is pretty much blonde. So funny that I have a blonde haired kid. You are SO social, you go up to anyone and play with them or say Hi. We went to the Balloon Glow on Tuesday night and you went up to a lady and started talking to her. Mindy McCright was talking to us and said, "do you know that lady?" I said, nope. You just love socializing. You LOVE it when we go places and you can run all around and explore. I guess the apple doesn't fall too fall from the tree, huh? At the same Balloon Glow, they had a huge stage with a band, you went straight to the front to boogie. You were on the ground rolling around and everywhere else. You are too funny! Some professional photographer started taking a bunch of pictures of you. You are also getting quite bossy. Last night you would NOT go to sleep (might have something to do with the fact that we gave you a Mr. Slushy right before bedtime). So Daddy laid you in our bed and went to sleep. I came in the room to go to bed and you patted my side of the bed and said, "Mommy, lay down. Mommy, sleep. Mommy, night night." You tell me how to rock your baby and you tell other little kids "No no" and try to usher them where you think they should go. You're going to be quite the big sister. One part of this age that I am anxious to pass is the sitting still part. We went to a patriotic concert last night with the whole fam and you didn't last 5 minutes in the church auditorium. You were everywhere. I had to take you out and play in the halls for 2 hours with you. It doesn't matter if we bring fruit snacks, videos, stickers, Mr. Potato Head (all of which you love), you just do not understand staying in one spot and being quiet! You are so smart too, its scary how you catch onto things. People comment all of the time that you are so inquisitive and determined to stay on something until you figure it out. I think you'll be an engineer of sorts :) . You are definitely left handed too, Boppa (Great-Grandpa) thinks that's great! :) And... Mr. Briggs, as for you, you are going to have quite the house to come home too. Ella is going to eat you up with love (and probably some jealousy too!). I'm very anxious as to how to do it with 2. Guess we'll learn soon enough, huh? Briggs, you are moving ALL OF THE TIME. Ella got to feel you kick the other night. You get mad when I'm sitting (like right now) and when I get hungry (so right now I'm getting kicked doubly as bad!). We love you like crazy already. Daddy is having fun "decorating" your room and tells me to leave the picking out of clothes to him. HA! Yeah right! We've been so adventurous this summer going to a Drive In Movie at a bank, the Balloon Glow, a kids imagination station, a parade, the pool, concerts in the park, all kinds of things and it's just now July! I'm a bit nervous for how to do all of this next year with 2. Hopefully Ella will listen a bit better and Briggs will be a laid back baby (famous last words, right?!). One thing is for sure. We are blessed beyond belief and SO excited for the days, months and years ahead to experience life at its fullest! Love you Ella and Briggs!!!
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