I know it's been a while since I've posted an update. You all know how busy this time of year is. Yesterday, Ellen and I got up EARLY and walked in the Jingle Bell Jog with a couple of the teachers that I work with. We were almost the last people to finish because Ellen wanted to walk by herself part of the way instead of riding in the stroller. Everyone thought she was very cute walking though--she had jingle bells on her shoes and liked hearing them ring when she walked.
Ellen loves pointing out new things that she notices on the Christmas tree. Her favorites are the banana, the highchair, the birdhouses, and the Canadian Mountie from Banff, Canada, which she calls scary (She got this from a Halloween movie she had that had a song in it called Spooky, Scary, Skeletons. She then decided that all scarecrows are scarys and the pilgrims are scarys and now the mountie is a scary--silly girl!)
Ellen knows she's not supposed to touch the ornaments on the tree, but it's much too tempting! She's already broken 4 or 5 of them. At least none of them were too important and actually a couple can be fixed.
Alexis, Ellen, Nikole
Ellen went to her friend Alexis Hermelo's 2nd birthday party last weekend.
Ellen thinks she's such a big girl! Look at her strutting right along with her friends.
Ellen got to jump in a bouncy house for the first time. She loved it! This is her with her daycare lady Carmen. (Alexis is Carmen's granddaughter).
Ellen was so helpful when I got the Christmas tree out! She decided to sit on the box and I had to pull the box through the house with her on top of it. She thought it was fun. She thought it was pretty funny that we put a tree in the house (even though it's a fake one).
Thanksgiving--the only part of Thanksgiving dinner that Ellen ate was the chocolate pie (and I think she wore more than she ate).
Patrick, Janet, Nikole, Michael, Ellen
Two of the teachers I work with came over for Thanksgiving dinner; Janet (the language arts teacher on my team) and her two sons, and Nikole (the math teacher on my team). Ellen had fun playing with the big boys and Janet brought her some new books to read so she was very happy.
Ellen got a kitchen to play with (she was supposed to get it for her birthday from the Haas' and Shaver's but I just got around to ordering it.) Ellen loves "cooking". She thinks the faucet on the sink is broken though because no water comes out.
Ellen loves to color. Her favorite thing is to have us draw E's so that she can color them. She also likes to color all over herself and her high chair and sometimes the floor. Good thing washable markers are actually very washable.
