A weekend update

Let's see what has been going on at Casa Palmer . . .

Ellery spent the weekend with Papa and Mimi (John's parents). We all (my parents etc) had an out of town wedding to attend so Papa and Mimi volunteered for Ellery duty :). They all had a great time - we dropped her off at the baseball field for Liam's game and they had a party to go to that day also - Ellery had a blast :)

Yesterday before we picked her up she got to see all her aunts and uncles and cousins (including her newest cousins Bryanna and Jayden - Jeff and Michelle's little twin angels) so that was good :).

She was pretty out of sorts yesterday though - I think that she just didn't quite "get" what was going on all weekend LOL - Mommy and Daddy were away, she was not sleeping in either of her cribs, etc.

OH! and i'm not sure if i mentioned this already but her new "thing" is SCREAMING bloody murder while i wash and rinse the shampoo out of her hair. Good times. Hopefully this is a quick phase because she seriously screams hysterically.

Yesterday, of course, was Father's Day - unfortunately we spent most of it in the car traveling back from the wedding, picking Ellery up etc. I felt badly that John didn't exactly have "fun" but I guess it can't be helped!!!

Here are the pics from the weekend - the ones of her in the dress were taken Saturday - her 17 month "birthday" (sniffle)

Enjoy!!!

Pics, Pics and MORE pics

Another long overdue update post

I swear I'll be a better blogger!!! (yeah right.)

Anyway - Ellery will be 17 months old next week and is such a delight (most of the time - LOL)

our troubles of late are mostly her "testing" - knowing she's doing something that's a "no no" and doing it anyway - while looking at us like "i know i'm not supposed to be doing this. . but . .i'm going to anyway so THERE". We're also dealing with some biting and hitting - which i'm NOT loving and i haven't figured out A. where she "learned" it and B. how to effectively stop it. SO - those are the current battles we're waging.

We have been having SUCH fun now that the weather is warm - Ellery just LOVES blowing bubbles and with her SUPER huge wand that Nanny bought her she can wave it around and do it all by herself :)

Over Memorial Day weekend we played outside a ton and also got to go to the zoo with Tabitha, Tom and Max - that was so fun! The kids had a great time looking at all the animals.

Ellery is still over the moon in love with Belle - and I *think* after 17 months Belle just might be getting used to the "newcomer" **eyeroll**

The little monkey's vocabulary is expanding too. . she says a bunch of stuff but nothing really regularly except a few.

She has said:

Mama (and variations - Mom etc)
Dada
Nana
Belle
kitty
pretty
book
key
tivo (!!!)
monkey
hi
okay
uh oh

she's also said "things" - the other day i KNOW she said "what are you doing" while john was at the computer - obviously it wasn't as clear as if you or I had said it. . but you could just TELL that's what she meant :)

She's also able to use a spoon correctly and we're working on a fork - she feeds herself oatmeal, applesauce and yogurt with the spoon - pretty neatly too!!!

I'm going to do a separate picture post because I have a TON