Belski

This post is long overdue and I don't want to forget all the fun, crazy, frustrating, silly, sweet, and awesome things that this little girl does! She is 17 months old now and a bundle of energy and no fear.

Ellie

Ellie Bellie

Elle Belle

Belle

Belski

That is the nick name train. That is how she got her nick name Belski-which is from Eric. But it is hysterical when Colt uses it and says "no Belski" or whatever other thing he is telling her. She thinks it is her belly button, when we say it she picks up her shirt and points there!

She is always into something, and gets hurt a lot, but she is tough so it usually doesn't phase her too much. She is very busy and loves to do things over and over again that she shouldn't-and laugh about it because she knows it too.

I went to the bathroom for a minute and I came back to find her chowing down on the couch with two buckets of freeze dried fruit. She thinks she can do anything everyone else can do. She loves being outside, running away from me when I call her, the trampoline, coloring on herself with markers, dancing, music, babies, animals, the bathtub, screaming and candy. Trying to wrangle her for diaper or dressing time is hard some time because she just likes to laugh and try and get away.

Her favorite foods are cheese, spaghetti, pizza, hot dogs, blue berries, fruit snacks, ice pops and ketchup. When she wants to eat something she sees she says num num num num, which makes me smile every time.

She loves doing whatever the older kids are doing and loves being included. She knows whats going on and how things work even though she can't speak much yet. If I take out a baking tray she tries to push a button on the oven and open it, if I put on running shorts in my closet she runs to get my running shoes and brings them to me, if I am doing the dishes she gets out the dish detergent and tries to put it in.

She loves dressing up in stuff, especially when the girls have ballet.

She still loves purses and bags and babies. She is always carrying around a few purses with junk and saying baby.

Now she says, dah for dog, baby, mommy, dada, wivy for livy and rachel, pubuls for Pebbles, hi, bye bye,  sss for shoes, psi for paci, cheese for food and for the camera, teese for teeth. She also uses uh-oh, wow, whoa and shakes her head yes and no at the right times. I'm sure there are a few more but mostly the poor kid just can't get it out. I know she is frustrated and I can't wait for her to be able to tell me more what she wants. She does lots of communicating with her eyes which is so cute. Overall she is pretty happy when she is not sick or teething so I guess we do ok understanding what she wants!

At 15 months she was 32.25 inches (95 percentile) and 27.8 lbs. (99 percentile). She is a big happy healthy sweet girl and we love her so much. I can't believe the actual little girl she is becoming so quickly and the baby she is not any more. She has to wear 3T shirts now to cover her long torso. In her pants she is 18-24 months but the tops are just too short for her all the time! 

She loves to snuggle with her paci and blankey still and wants to drag her blankey around all day.

Pushing her baby and being the baby. It is good entertainment-the girls take turns pushing her around the house in it.

She still loves Pebbles. She loves feeding her food from her high chair, getting into Pebbles food every chance she gets, playing in her cage, and eating her treats when she gets a hold of them.

She likes to climb out of her highchair every chance she gets, even when she has her straps on sometimes. We say she is the highchair Houdini because she gets out of all the straps on every highchair at all the restaurants.

 

She loves bath time and her eyes are hazel green like Eric's and sometimes look blue depending on what she wears but mostly green. What a cutie! She fell and knocked one of her teeth back up into her gums the other day so we are just waiting to see if it turns gray. At least she didn't crack it right? The babysitter says she is fearless, and don't I know it!

We all love you so much Ellie! You are a ball full of energy and happiness and we are so happy you are in our family!

 

 

Halloween

We started October sick and it lasted the whole month and is still going. It put a damper on some fun but they still got to have a great Halloween!

Pumpkin picking at the grocery store........yup, that is all we made it to this year :( But they enjoyed climbing around on the display. They were disappointed to not go to a fun place to pick pumpkins, so was I to be honest, we have a few great places around here for them to do all fall farm kind of activities and me missed out this year but it was better we did, Colt ended up in the ER this night with pneumonia, poor kid.

We brought our wagon to feel like we were really getting the farm experience!

Each picture has someone else smiling good! If only I knew how to photoshop and make one good picture!

The kids were eager to carve their pumpkins but I forgot how quickly they go to mush once you carve them here in Texas. So they only lasted about 3 days then they were covered in mold and turning into puddles of goo on the front porch, which apparently snails like because they were covered in snails too. The kids were really sad about it but next year hopefully I will remember to not do it so early, or maybe we will go for painting instead!

They were a little dangerous to lite with the dare devil around! She kept trying to stick her hand right in there to grab it. And again, we didn't get one picture with everyone smiling so here is a sample with different kids smiling in each one!

Ellie did get a real pumpkin like everyone else, just didn't get it carved in time for the photo! The kids loved watching us carve them but weren't into touching the pumpkin guts.

We actually got to make it to the ward trunk or treat party when no one had a fever or other contagious sickness! We had a two day sickness free, only coughing, break and it was great!

Ellie totally loved it! She seemed to understand the concept and went up to everyone mumbling something and then put her candy in her bucket and tried to say thank you and clapped. It was so fun watching her get into this super fun kid tradition! Livy didn't want to go as slow as we were going so she went around by herself getting all the goodies, Rachel hung out with Eric passing out candy for most of it and Colt was with Ellie and I.

One of the families had a table set up with their teenager hiding underneath and had his hand sticking out in the bowl of candy which my kids were fascinated with and terrified of! They wouldn't put their hand in to get candy but they couldn't stop watching. Colt is still obsessed with it and if someone asks him about Halloween he has to tell them about the hand in the bowl, it was a bad hand, it tried to get me that hand. Poor kid!

Livy was so happy to get her face painted and play all the games that they had set up inside!

Then came Halloween Day finally! It has been a huge count down here at our house on our calender, for the trunk or treat and now this! Rachel had a fever for a few days and was just starting to feel better, we thought :(. Ellie was way excited as you can see! And yes, that is the regular Thomas the train, don't be confused because of his french/beret looking hat!

Rachel the tiger

Colt as Thomas the train

Olivia the dragon

Ellie as the dress up bin surprise/ballerina!

Walking the neighborhood, deciding which houses were too "haunted" to go up to the door or not. Some people get way into decorating and sounds and dressing up and the kids couldn't handle it and decided to skip some of those, even though they loved looking at them.

After a walk down one street we made our way home where half of us rested and passed out candy to the "customers" while the others his the candy trail. Colt and Livy were die hard trick or treaters and would have went all night. After a little break we switched kids and Rachel and Ellie got a little more trick or treating in. Ellie was as into it this time as at the trunk or treat. And she was a champ at handing out handfuls of candy too. Rachel like trick or treating with just me and Ellie for a little so it was calmer, sweet Rae, poor girl got really sick the next few days.

Dancing in the fog machine

Spooky house across the street had black lights, tons of decorations/body parts scattered on the grass and trees and creepy talking recording going on all month every night. Again, the kids had a love hate relationship with it!

This all we could manage after a long day!

Miss Cora as the cutest elephant ever!

Dan the pirate!

They have been playing in their costumes all month. Every few days since they got them they put them on and run around and do whatever, just glad they got a lot of good use and the kids loved them! Happy Halloween, hope yours was a good one too!