for me

i forgot some stuff for the 9 month post and i really don’t want to forget. when she hits 12 months- i plan on printing out my entries from each month and doing something scrapbook-y with it. so please, bare with me.. yes, yet another elsie post. (i know my other 3 kids are not shared as much on this blog- sorry!)

-knows how to open and close her hands when you sing twinkle twinkle little star.
-knows the book brown bear brown bear..loves it. will sit and flip through it over and over.
-plays "where’s elsie????" and hides her eyes with her hands… thinks she’s rather clever when she reappears! 🙂
-shakes her head no when she doesn’t want something
-will blow raspberries back to you if you do it first (cam’s favorite thing to do with her!)
-gives us "looooooove" by resting her head on our chest, arm, leg… anything. 🙂 sooo sweet.. but only lasts for like 7 seconds.
will ‘talk’ loudly when she is in places that echo…the garage.. the hallway.. church 😉
vocabulary: dada, mama, baba– baba means lots of things– bottle, brown bear, brother, byebye….it’s the allpurpose word 🙂

i know i am forgetting things.. chris- we talked about it the other night. add to comments if you remember. 🙂

OK, daddy chiming in…Elsie loves mommy, and even though she’s more independant now, she never wants to be too far away.  She’s a fast crawler, gives me a huge smile when I get home, is always ready for a laugh, is entertained by her siblings constantly, is fascinated with water bottles, still very mouthy, is not a snuggler, but when she relents your heart melts (so, I guess she’s already good at playing hard to get- she gets that from her mother:), reaches out for me whenver she sees me, causing me to run to her, only to have her turn away from me at the last second…oooh, I love her!

this was elsie at her uncle’s play… which was rather loud and dark.. but she just sat and stared and sucked those 2 fingers the whole time. 🙂