Jamison

Hailey asked to see some of the pictures of Jamison I've taken lately; so here they are!

Ells and James chillin' at the carnival.

Blowing bubbles.

Okay, so this one isn't Jamie, but rather his sister, Berlin.

Hailey and Jamison.

A not-so-happy Jamie at the end of a long day.

Ding!

Ellie has been trying so hard to figure out how to ring the bell on Jamison's Radio Flyer tricycle. She finally did it!

Open For Business!

My Etsy shop has officially "opened." Check it out at ellieroo.etsy.com. I only have a few items posted right now, but I have a lot of inventory that will be added as I get the time!

New Camera

Tim and I (okay, really just me) got a new camera last week. It is a digital SLR and I've been saving up for one for awhile now. Over the past year I have had a real desire to go back to my old SLR days of high school photography and yearbook. The only catch is that I have forgotten all the F-stop and aperture setting information... I guess I have some (re)learning to do! For now though, the automatic mode is making me look like a better photographer than I really am!

Tim took this series of photos of Ellie wearing his "dasses."






A happy girl playing on Jamie and Berlin's slide (thanks for sharing!)

Eighteen Months Old

Ellie and I spent the last week in Idaho, so this monthly update is a week late. We had a great time and I will post some pictures from that trip shortly.

Ellie is constantly making us crack up laughing and she is so much fun to parent right now. (Aside from the occasional temper tantrum...)

How Ellie has changed in the past month:

• Ellie has added to her list of "What does the animal say?" responses. She will now moo like a cow, roar like a lion, say "ooo, ooo, ooo" for a monkey, meow like a cat, and woof like a dog.
• She likes to tell us (and the animals) to "moose" which is her word for "move." She enjoys telling us where to go and pushing or pulling us along by our shorts if we don't move fast enough.
• Ellie sleeps through the night about 50% of the time now. The other nights typically only have one or two wakings.
• Ellie dropped to one nap. She sleeps for about two hours from 1pm to 3pm.
• She is getting really good at feeding herself. She doesn't like us to feed her from a spoon anymore; she wants to do it herself.
• Ellie wants to do everything her way, without help. She often gets frustrated because she can't do it herself, but if we try to help it usually ends with her throwing herself on the ground in a tantrum.
• Continuing to talk up a storm. She puts two words together now and has figured out that if someone is far away you have to YELL for them to hear you.

Events of the past month:

• Lots of trips to the pool, including the time Ellie decided to jump into the pool with no one there to catch her...
• Trip to Idaho
• Two trips to the zoo