Elia Belia

Poor girl is sick today. Its nice that she took a 3 hour nap, but so sad to see her eyes all watery and nose all red and stuffy. But she is much more snuggly! After she woke up today all she wanted to do was cuddle. She even fell asleep in my arms earlier this evening. :)So I thought I would take this time to write about what this little girl is up to. She is pretty good at talking now- can repeat most words we say to her. She wants to do everything Gianna does, and will let Giana dress her and brush her and generally torture her.

She wanted to be zipped up in the suitcase.

Whenever she has a small bump or bruise, she yells OW and then comes over and make me kiss the spot she hurt. So cute.

Last night she said Daddy for the first time in months. It is really cute- it sounds like Dannyyyyyyy. Chris is eating it up.

She loves to give kisses, which is especially er, sweet, when she is sick. She is obsessed with Elmo. Whenever she sees Elmo on her cup or at the store on a pack of diapers she squeals and won't stop saying Elmo!!!! Santa is bringing some Elmo toys, I'm sure of it. Funny thing is, we rarely watch Sesame Street!

When I was trying to take their Christmas picture the other day, I was having a really hard time getting her to sit still and next to G. I remembered I had a pack of M&Ms in my car, so I went out to go get them. Elia followed me into the garage, and saw that I had the pack in my hands. As soon as she saw I had them, she turned around and ran back to her room where we were taking the picture. She immediately sat down next to G and just looked at the camera all pretty. And I hadn't given her one yet! Smarty girl. The photo session went much better after that.

Can't believe how big she is getting!!!

Ms. Chatterbox

Elia has been VERY chatty lately. She is especially chatty after she sees Chris when he comes home from work. I got some of it on film tonight.

Nonstop talker

I know my posts have been few and far between lately. Its not that I have nothing to write about, I just like to have pictures on each post to illustrate what I am talking about! SO this one is not going to have any pics, or video, sorry!

Elia is full out walking now, it is soooo freaking adorable. She really thinks she is so cool when she is doing it like, she actually invented walking or something! But another thing she has been doing for quite sometime now, is talking. Nonstop, all day long, during any situation. Last night Chris and I were loudly reprimanding G to just EAT her freaking vegetable already, and while Chris was coaxing G through each bite, Elia just had to tell everyone her take on the matter. Nupanup nomom betameme. She thinks she is speaking english! My favorite is when I put her to bed at night. I usually kinda hold her and sing a song or two to her. Lately she has been resting her head on my shoulder quietly, but about every 3 or 4 seconds, she lifts her head up and looks at me and lets out a string of babble, usually while poking my nose or something. It is so stinking cute, that I have been singing more and more songs to her each night just to prolong this little scenario. I'm just a little black raincloud nepabababnepabnbaba hovering under the honey tree. menomenomeme I'm just a little black raincloud nomomobababalatila pay no attention to me.

Seriously, I would sing to her all night if I had the energy! Sweet sweet Elia. A walking, talking machine!