My little smarty pants...

Ella is two years and two months old as of next Sunday.  I am amazed at how smart our little bug is.  Her speech is getting better with each day.  Here are some of her amazing accomplishments at not even 2.5 :)

She can sing her ABC's 

She can count to eleven

She can sing the following:

Twinkle Twinkle

Old McDonald

Bah Bah Black Sheep

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Row Row Row your boat

Mickey mouse Club House Theme Song

Yo Gabba Gabba

She Can Identify:

Hearts

Circles

Squares

Triangles

She is getting a lot better with her colors

We are so proud of this little girl.  She is learning so much from day care and for that I am so grateful. 

Her favorite phrases are:

Not Nice

Eww Nasty

Hold you (me) Mama

Daddy look it

poo poo potty

water day

not yet

This little girl loves her Bapo and Teenter Bell, she loves to dance in the car, and sing songs. 

I am amazed at how she is constantly melting my heart.  

She is making it VERY hard to not want another baby right away......

Tinker Bell

Ella is absolutely positively obsessed with Tinker Bell or as she says Teenter Bell.  I love that she loves fairies and I love that she thinks Tinker Bell is so awesome.  What I love most of all though is, that she LOVES Disneyland.  She doesn't exactly know what Disneyland is..but she knows what the castle is.  Every time she sees the Disney castle she yells, "DISNEYLAND!!" It makes my heart happy that she's a Disney spirit.  She also LOVES Mickey, Minnie, Goofy (oofy), Donald, Daisy and, Pluto.  I am so excited to be going in October of 2013..I just wish it would come sooner..

Silly Face

I love my little bug, I love that she is my little shadow.  We had lots of fun this evening making silly faces and taking pictures.  After each one, she would laugh and say "silly mama"

Bedtime

Bedtime with Ella has become VERY challenging.  Before we moved into our house, Ella was in her crib and she was a wonderful sleeper.  She had always been a great sleeper, even as an infant.  

When we were getting ready to move, I debated a lot about if I should switch her out of her crib into a big girl bed.  I had a lot of people tell me that a clean switch to a new room and a new bed would be easy...... 

Well, it was not easy..not in the slightest.  Ella will wake up and come and sleep with us around one or two every morning.  She will also not fall asleep with out one of us.  We have tried putting her back in her room and instead of nap time telling her it's quiet time.  Nothing seems to work :( I am down to my very last nerve, I am super tired all of the time.  She makes it about 1,000x's more difficult because she insists on touching me or cuddling right up against me.  Don't get me wrong I love cuddles...but the pokes and whacks to the face are making it so I am getting very little sleep.  

We decided today to put her crib back together.  We probably should have done it awhile ago...The look on Ella's face when Devin was putting it together was priceless.  She was super excited. She seems happy to have her old bed back....we'll see how she does tonight...for her sake and mine, I hope this works for us.