16 months!

Ellis is 16 months old today. On the 3rd of every month I think the same thing - it goes by so fast!!

Here's an update:

EJ is still a pretty laid back little girl, but she'll let you know when she doesn't like something.

She's VERY into balls, babies, and coloring. She loves balls of any kind - soccerballs, baseballs, footballs, plastic balls, rubber balls. Anytime she sees one she picks it up and enthusiastically say, "ba!". She loves to feed, hug, and kiss her babies and push them around in strollers. She finally says "baby", instead if "di-di", which she's been calling babies the last couple of months. When she colors, she is now getting more of the crayon on paper than in her mouth. Although I still occasionally see a blue tooth smile (or some other color)! The only color she can pick out consistently is brown and she calls most letters "E".

Ellis is a talker! She signs and says a bunch of words, and keeps us laughing with her own little language. Her newest phrase is "Oooo Da Da", which she said when Brandon came home dressed up one day. She got a laugh from us, so now she says it all the time (I'll have to post some video of this another time). The other thing we love is how she always claps and says, "yay!" at the end of prayers - her own version of "amen".

Ellis is a climber. She'll probably be the first of the girls to get stiches. If she wants something that is out of her reach, she'll figure out a way to get it. She's even started climbing up on our counter height kitchen chairs.

Here are some recent pictures of "Ellis being Ellis":