19 Months!

Oh they grow so fast. It was like yesterday she was cooing and grinning at me with a gummy smile and today she is running around with pigtails in her hair bossing her brothers around.

This little spitfire is a ball of personality. She has got energy, spunk, cuteness and charisma to spare.

She is so quick to laugh and dance and run and sing....she is enthusiastic about everything! From breakfast to her nap she cheers and claps and grins.

Ella loves her family..."MOMMY!!" She yells at me over and over again with delight. She gently touches me as though to make sure I am still right here...and yells it again. When Jon gets home from work it is a nightly welcome home party "HiDADA!! HIDADA!!" She can't squirm into his arms fast enough.

She has a little baby doll, "Baby" and a blanket she calls "meme". She loves them but because one was handmade and the other came from who knows where they are irreplaceable and so she needs to leave them in her bed  which leads to her little broken hearted wails...twice a day. The same passion she puts into everything else also goes into a fit. So be forewarned. Say "no" to her with great consideration of the consequences.

Elizabeth loves to have her nails painted and her hair done. She loves babies, dogs and eating.

She still drinks formula because she has been so small that I worried about her growing, although she has always had a very good appetite. She just hit 20 pounds last month! (Ben was 20 pounds around 4 months!)

We just adore this little girl. She is such a joy to us...we are blessed to have such smart, healthy and happy kids. I don't know how we managed to get the best ones...but we sure did!