Cute Olson pictures.

I'm over at the Olson's taking some great pictures off of their computer. My mom has our camera and is going to Ghana tomorrow with my favorite sister Susie. So there will not be too many new pictures for a while unless I figure out our scanned images. Happy Turkey day!

Messerschmidt

Ella is getting dangerous. She is now able to climb into and onto many things. She will climb into the dining room chairs, and onto the table if we let her. She has now fallen on her face, stuck her finger in the seat of my truck as I was closing it, and had many other minor falls. We are having to step up our surveillance of her activities. She of course (as you can see) loves her new found mobility.

More fairy pics

Verbose

Here is Ella's vocabulary so far:

Dada (1st word?)
Mama
Hi
Shoe (her favorite)
Eww (our favorite)
up (with a pronounced "p" sound "upbbh"
more (with sign)
all done (with signl)
agua (1st Spanish word! understands water)
bye-bye
ball
sock
baby?
uh oh (previous favorite of hers)
oh no
no (uses this one a lot now as well, especially when she is about to do something that is wrong)
baba (bottle)
dog (also says woo-woof a lot)
please (sign only)
milk (sign only)
ow (she pulls the hair on my legs before she says this one)
oo (her version of oops)
nigh-nigh (night night)
nee (as in the nights of nee)
Breah (bread)

things she sort of says:
is it? (meaning 'where is it?')
er d'go? (meaning 'where'd it go?' We like to hide things from her and have her find them)
What

She is copying a lot of what we say now, these are just the things we think she attaches meaning to. She copies a lot of tones and things, like the tones for 1,2, and 3 or a,b, and c. She is also talking in her own dialect constantly. We definitely have a jabberer on our hands. She doesn't stop very often. If she's quiet she's usually doing something wrong.

Haloween!

Ella said she wanted something a little bit more dainty and feminine this year (last year she was a turtle). So we let her be a fairy. We had fun dressing her up. Superman came to save her (her novio from next door, aka Emmanuel). We went to the Redondo beach pier with the Mendozas, and had fun. She was walking all over the place, and quite tired when we got home.