20 Months Old!

Ellery was 20 months old yesterday - I'm not sure exactly when my little princess went from being a baby to a little girl. . but it happened..... :( It makes me so sad. LOL

Anyway - let's see. . at 20 months:

She goes to bed between 7 and 7:30.. .
We wake her in the morning to go to my parents at about 6:15/6:30
Eating well - will try pretty much anything and is getting SO much better with the veggies (we're not only eating canned green beans now LOL)

her word list:
mommy (mama, mom etc.)
daddy
kitty
book
ball
it's
a (the combination of it's a book or it's a ball comes often)
puppy
nana/nanny
hi
bye
bye bye
1, 2, 3
cold (she says it's too cold a lot. . not sure why)
oh no (said very tragically LOL)
uh oh
wow
in
up
cheese
please
thank you

i KNOW she says more than that. . it's just so hard to remember them all LOL LOL

she knows where all of the following are:
head
ears
eyes
nose
teeth
tongue
back
fingers
toes
knee
elbow

knows some animal sounds:
meow (OWWWWWWWWW)
moo (OOOOOOOOOOO)
quack (ack ack ack)
sheep (baa baa)

she's so funny - i love to hear her talk and do all her animal noises etc. . but i'll ask her to do things and occasionally she'll look at me like "lady. . . . give it a rest - i'm not a trained monkey" ROFL ROFL

anyway - here are some recent pics - the ones with the piggie tails are from yesterday (20 months)

We hit the beach today!!!

Ellery's never been to the beach - so John and I decided that we'd take her today!!!! We always go up to Hampton Beach!

We have a whole bunch of traditions in regards to the beach and I'm VERY particular about everything LOL:

We leave the house by 9am - CHECK (well . . 9:15)
We have an indepth discussion about which exit off the highway to take and normally choose the wrong one - CHECK
We park in the SAME parking lot - off the street that's the first left after McDonald's - CHECK
We have the same lunch - Yummy Sabo's subs - CHECK
We end the afternoon with Blink's Fried Doe (spelled wrong ROFL) and Lemonade - CHECK

SO - this was Ellery's first trip - I expected her to be somewhat timid with the ocean. .. but boy was I wrong. She marched right in like she was walking into a teeny tiny puddle!!!! lol that baby has NO fear. We had a great time. . the waves were HUGE and John had Ellery out with him jumping the waves (in his arms) - I was being ABUSED by the waves over and over. .LOL but i loved it!!!

Ellery wasn't quite sure what to make of the saltwater taste ROFL and she definately did not like that weird feeling of the sand rushing out from under your feet as the waves go back out....I happen to very much dislike that as well LOL LOL

All in all it was a fabulously fun family day at Hampton :)