Life Update

I feel like I haven't updated you all on our lives in my posts lately. I have just been posting on our outings, holidays, or visits from family members. So I thought I would just post on what's new with us. I used to post about all of Ella Ann's new tricks, smiles, faces, steps, etc., but now that she is walking I guess I think that everything else after that is just everything else! I thought that her walking was the biggest thing ever, so nothing has really compared to that in my mind, which it all should! Shame on me! :) Sooo, with that in mind, I will just let you know what Miss Priss is up to these days! She is as crazy and fun as ever! As soon as her little feet hit the floor in the morning, she is nonstop, literally, until she is back in bed at nighttime! She is constantly in motion, which is fun, but tiring! She can practically run now, so I cannot do anything in another room, even as fast as I can move it, she is right behind me! She points to people in pictures now and tries to say their names, but I think only Spencer and I at this point can figure out what she's trying to say. She can say "milk", but it's "meeeee" and she says "please", but I think she thinks I'm saying "peas", so it's "peeeeeeeeeeeeees"! She'll say "niiii niii" for night night and she also says, unfortunately, "NO" quite often! She has no stranger anxiety right now and will go right up to a stranger and wave, smile, dance, or give them her furrowed brow. She is known in our playgroup now as "the girl who makes the mean face"! Ohh no!

She also seems to understand what Spencer and I say to her. We tell her to go get a diaper, which she does, get her milk, or any of the many farm animals she has and she will usually get the correct one...she even says "llama"! She is also still our dancing queen. She will start dancing to the music of a commercial or any other sound that sounds like a beat! She loves dancing to the "Electric Slide" at my gym's nursery! I cannot believe I let them corrupt her mind with the "Electric Slide"! She has now started to stomp her legs with music, which is her latest smooth move. Ella Ann doesn't like to watch television, but she will stand in front of it if the Mickey Mouse Club is on and dance along with Mickey and the gang. She points to Mickey Mouse and says "Meee"!

She is my shodow now more than ever and loves dishing out hugs and kisses, and greets her Daddy each night by running to the door when he walks in and giving him a huge smile and hug or kiss! Ohhh I love it, and I know Spencer does to!

Spencer is really busy this month at work. Ella Ann and I don't get to see him much, which makes for a long day sometimes. He is setting up interviews now and will be going to several cities to check everything out. I am excited for him and the next chapter in our lives. It will be neat to see where God is going to place us and the adventure He will take us on. It will be fun if we stay here or if we move. I know we will be happy wherever we are. Spencer also gets to take a trip to New Orleans next month and San Francisco in May to present his research. He says it won't be fun because he'll be doing boring stuff all day, but come on, I think he'll have time to do some fun things and explore! So yes, I'm jealous and mad that I don't get to go! He will be staying in nice hotels and eating lots of good food! That's enough for me to call it a vacation! ha!

I am finishing up my courses to be a certified medical transcriptionist. I have started posting my resume online and applying to a few jobs, so hopefully I will find the perfect job to fit my life soon! It will be nice to make a little extra money for us so that Spencer and I can go out and enjoy ourselves sometimes! My Bible study that I regularly attend at my church has started back up after the holiday break, so it has been great to be back and Ella Ann enjoys going and playing in the nursery. We also still go to our playgroup once a week at church, which gives me a chance to hang with other moms while the kids play. The Dinner Club that was started back in August has really been growing! We have 20 girls now! We meet once a month and three of us cook. The girls who volunteer to cook pick the theme. We have one tonight, our "Souperbowl", serving soup of course, but I cannot go because Spencer is on call and I will stay home with Ella Ann. We are going to do a cookie exchange next month in honor of Valentine's Day and I'm going to have it here at the house. So that will be fun. My friend, Jana, and I have started trading babysitting once a month for each other while the other couple goes out on a date. It is such a treat and all of us benefit from it!

Well, that's a long enough update I suppose! Of course Ella Ann's update is the longest because what Spencer and I do is not exciting! I just posted one picture of Ella Ann below so this entire post isn't just writing! My parents are coming down to visit this weekend, so I'll post more pictures next week!

Ella Ann LOVES her blanket! We now own 3 of them so we will never be without in an emergency! One goes with us wherever we go!