Elly's been Tagged!

Elly was tagged by her friend, Lincoln yesterday.

Here are 8 things about Elly:

:: Elly entertains herself very well (mostly while Mommy is blogging!) She'll trot around our great room playing music for herself and then dancing, pulling pillows off the couch onto the floor and then putting her head on them (only her head, while her little bum sticks out in the air), pushing her grocery cart, stroller, or vacuum around the room, finding a random piece of paper and then reading it aloud while still walking around, etc, etc.

:: Her favorite song at current is ABCs. She'll listen to us sing the song and then say "A B C D", we worked on adding the D for a while- now it's on to E.

:: Elly can do sign language. My mom bought her a Baby Einstein First Signs DVD when she was only about 6 months old. Brandon and I rarely did signs for her when we spoke to her, therefore she didn't do them back, until one day she did one from the video. Turns out- she had learned all the ones from the video and we had no idea she could do them! (I guess we let her watch that video a lot!) The one she uses all the time is please. She can also do Mommy, Daddy, Baby, more, eat, ball, blanket, cereal, milk, bath, kiss, and some others I can't remember.

:: Elly is and always has been an awesome sleeper. She regularly sleeps 12 hours at night and takes two naps during the day. But, she is a pretty light sleeper, too, thanks to her parents.

:: Elly's favorite foods are: bananas, oranges (which she calls oh-neech), peanut butter, and goldfish. Pretty regular toddler stuff I guess. She'll eat pretty much whatever we give her. Except she does have a serious distaste for any kind of meat. Thankfully that is slowly coming to an end, especially after we gave her maple-flavored breakfast sausage a few weeks ago!

:: Elly loves animals! She loves making the sounds, too. She does an awesome elephant which sounds like "Bwooooo", and she also loves the bird: "Wee-wheat".

:: Elly basically will not let me get in the shower without inviting her to join me and she never turns down an invitation. If I want a peaceful shower, I have to do it when she's sleeping. (She used to just sit on the floor and play with her toys.) She stands up next to a little wall where I put her rubber ducks and various hotel sized shampoo bottles and plays with them. Her first task is immediately getting them all wet by holding them high into the stream of the shower behind her, without looking of course, or she'd get water in her eyes. She's rarely ready to get out when I say it's time. She just loves it.

:: It's so much fun for us, because Elly has begun to see the joy in trying to entertain us. She'll fake laugh, which makes us laugh. She makes faces she knows we think are funny. It's the greatest.