Stuffed animal anyone?

Ella LOVES her stuffed animals. She also loves dropping them into her crib and then insisting she be picked up so she can join them.

Toddler Silliness

Ella's been talking up a storm recently and I just wanted to recount a couple of our "conversations."

While "diving" (standing in the front seat of the CRV turning lights on and off) two weeks ago...
Ella: Mama, SIT, door, door!!
Mama (after closing the door): OK Ella, I'm sitting.
Ella: Mama, keys! (pointing to mail key that she has jammed into the ignition)
Mama: I see. Good job Ella. Where are we going?
Ella: Airport! Pane!
Mama: We're going to the airport? We're going on a plane ride?
Ella: Airport! Dada!
Mama: We're going to pick up Dada? But Dada isn't at the airport.
At that point Ella gave me a HUGE scowl/pout and began to ignore me.

While playing in the park two ago...
Ella: (pointing at plane) Pane! Pane!
Gigi: Yes, that's a plane. Gigi's going on a plane soon.
Ella: Gigi no pane! Gigi go park, no pane!!

While having breakfast yesterday...
Gigi: Ella, you're making a huge mess.
Ella (to Jake as he moves in to mooch): No Jake, my mess! No!!! Mine! Ella's mess!

Last night..
Ella was trying to climb onto her time out chair while saying "time out." Apparently she wanted me to place her in the chair because when I didn't she ran at me saying "hit, hit, time out" while trying to hit me.

After Mom picked up Ella from daycare today she noticed the plug-in pumpkin on the porch and insisted on bringing it inside. Mom says she was playing in the front room with the pumpkin and then got eerily quiet. When Mom when to look for her she was upstairs with the pumpkin plugged in. She knows she's not supposed to touch plugs and when she saw my mother ran up to her yelling "GO, GO, go away Gigi" while trying to push her out of the room. It's time for new plugs.

Ella's first bikini...

Call the SPCA!

Ella loves torturing the dogs! She like piling her toys on them, trying to put her fingers in their mouths while saying "bite, bite," shaking their paws, and ordering them to "speak!"

From the mouths of babes...

I was watching Sara Plain interview with Katie Couric this evening. The advertisement before the video clip was for Degree Antiperspirant and features a robot. Ella was looking over my shoulder and announced that it was a "scawy wobot." As I watched the interview Ella kept pointing to Sara Palin and repeating "scawy wobot."

Here's a link to the video...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/24/eveningnews/main4476173.shtml

My favorite photo this month...

Stickers

It seems that Ella is really into stickers. It started during the FAILED potty training process when they were a reward. Ella found her reward stickers and was REALLY proud of herself.

Ella's Birthday....

Ella's turning two on the 23rd so Mom and I decided to have a celebratory gathering. AFTER I invited about twelve children and eight adults Mom asked me if I had heard of the child's party rule? My response was "What rule?" It seems that the number of children you invite is supposed to age of your child. I guess I was planning for Ella's seventh birthday and not her second. We had a house full. It was total chaos. We blew up a couple of pools and Ella's lips turned blue after about three hours in the water. She was so cold she was shaking and she still refused to get out until we offered her cake. It was an exhausting but great day!

Don't I wish....

I know we had a great day last month but the whole potty training thing isn't working so well. Ella loves to rip off her diaper, squat, grin at me, and pee on the floor while saying "pee pee, pee pee!!" Last night I told her that if she went to the bathroom on the carpet again I wouldn't let her run around naked. She promptly climbed up on the computer she uses as a stool to reach the light and announced "pee pee." My mother was nice enough to point out that it wasn't the carpet.

Babble, babble, babble...

Ella's talking up a storm and has even started using pronouns. Today, when Mom wouldn't let Ella dump the clean clothes on the floor, she said; " GeeGee, you vewy mean!" She then hurled herself to the floor in a fit of pique.

These are from 5 minutes later...