My Baby is 2!!

Ella's official birthday was the Monday after her party. Addy's allergies were bothering her, so I felt it was the perfect excuse to keep her home from school and we headed to the zoo.

Granted, there is food in her mouth, but she is looking at the camera smiling!  

Note quite sure why the concerned looks/

If you'll recall, the last carousel experience was a the rodeo and Ella screamed the whole time.  I was surprised she even wanted to ride the one at the zoo.  All started out great, she got a bit frightened when it started up, but eventually was OK.  Just a moment of screaming instead of 3 minutes!

On Friday we went for Ella's 2 year check-up.  And we were back to the screaming.  As soon as we got called back by the nurse, a look of fear set in her face.  She tried to be tough, but did a good amount of screaming.  And there were no shots involved.  She broke down in tears when the nurse asked her to step on the scale so we could weigh her.  The nurse had to leave the room before she'd step up.  Goodness!  But we survived and she is healthy and growing like a weed.  She is around the 69th percentile for height and 91st for weight.  She weighed in at 31 lbs - no wonder I can only hold her for a little while before I start hurting!  

Here is a little about Ella at 2 years old...

• Favorite color - yellow
• Favorite song - Baby Moses, her teacher told me that sometime they'll ask the class what song they want to sing and Ella is always the 1st to answer and she'll shout "Baby Moses".  I'd say the baby bumblebee song is close 2nd and sometimes we even get a mashup of the 2 which is always entertaining.
• Favorite playtime activity - playing with baby dolls, and most recently she is into changing the baby's diaper (even though they aren't wearing diapers) and she goes into her room and gets wipes and starts cleaning baby up.  Then she'll start wiping the floor and the tables...next thing you know she has 15 wipes out.
• Ella is crazy feisty at diaper changing time these days. 
• Favorite past time - giggling and making other people smile with her big smile
• Favorite tv show - Dora
• If given the option, Ella could play outside all day.
• Favorite food - chips and queso and she is getting into the salsas too, mostly the green sauce, but she is known to eat some of the red sauce too.  Not much the girl won't eat though. 
• Ella can put her shoes on like a champ.
• She is super curious about noises and when she hears something she'll put her finger up to her ear and say "listen"
• There is not really 1 favorite book, she loves all books and pretty much has Brown Bear memorized and a couple of others she knows good chunks of the book. 
• Ella loves to run.  When she does run, it looks like she is going to fall any second, but remarkably, she doesn't fall that often.