Ella Always Takes My Toys!

See! I DO share!

It's amazing how much you can learn about your child from OTHER children. It's a no brainer that Ella and Erika look nothing alike, but as we've said all along, Ella will undoubtedly take on her mommy's little attitude. So while the following conversation may disturb some moms out there, Erika found it thoroughly entertaining:

(Scenerio: After a long day of working as an intern, Erika arrives to Carla's house to pick up Ella. Carla, her son Matthew, Ella, and two other little ones are outside playing when Erika arrives. After the hellos and such, the following conversation begins to take place between Matthew and Carla:

Carla: Say bye-bye to Ella and Mrs. Erika. Cha Cha!
Matthew: Bye Mrs. Erika! Cha-Cha! Mommy, is Ella leaving too?
Carla: Yes, her mommy is taking her home now.
Matthew: Good. Ella is always taking my toys.
Carla: It's nice of you to share
(meanwhile, Ella is crawling towards Matthew who is riding is little tricycle)
Matthew: When Ella comes over, I have to take ALL my toys to my room and close the door. She is always taking my toys!
Carla: You must have some pretty neat toys, huh?
Matthew: I don't know. But I don't like it that she takes my toys. She's ALWAYS taking my toys, mommy! Why can't she just play with HER toys?
Carla: It's okay, Matthew. It's going to be alright.
Matthew: I just always have to put my toys in my room. I can't ever just play with them. Is she going home now?

Ah, the things kids say! Funny thing is that Ella shares all the time; we suppose she just expects the sharing to be recipricated on her own terms (sound familiar?).

So it's good to be back "blogging" again, considering it's been a good amount of time since the last update! Turns out that today is Tim's birthday (!!!) so we'll be celebrating tonight by going to dinner and enjoying a nice and relaxing meal while Ella enjoys some time with the grandparents. It'll be a treat to go to dinner and not request a highchair! Ha.

If you have a few minutes to spare, we consolidated some of our most recent pictures here and will attempt to be more on top of our bloggin! Oh! It's been so long since we've blogged that Ella hit a few major milestones....hello world, she's crawling! The morning after her first night of crawling was a big eye opening for her. After she woke up and we walked out into the living room, the look in her eyes gave it all away....you could just see it all coming together for her and if you could have read her mind, it was probably saying "Jeez! I've been missing out on all this for all these months? Well goody good for me because now I can go anywhere and get anything!" Whereas we were thinking "Oh boy. Bring out the gates."

Capturing Ella's first night of crawling...if only she moved this slow now!