Girl Gone Wild!!!

Ella has become very um, adventurous lately. Notice I wrote adventurous instead of naughty. Let's see, last night while I was washing dishes she was at my feet and playing in the cabinet. The cabinet with all the dangerous stuff of course has a child lock. She likes to play in the one with all the canned goods in it, no big deal. So she is talking to herself and playing, then she starts laughing and I feel something weird on my feet. Little miss Ella somehow opened a sealed brand new container of oatmeal, you know a big one and so oatmeal was everywhere. It was quite difficult to clean up. Chris was at work so I had poor Hunter trying to keep her out of the kitchen and she was yelling at him and climbing over him. It was quite the mess!!

This morning I was on the phone with our friend, my mom's realtor Dorothy who was calling to check on my parents. Ella had headed off down the hall so of course I did the quick check and make sure all bathroom doors are shut. She has started to really like playing in her and Hunter's room, which is no big deal. Well I talked for maybe 5 minutes, noticed it was quiet and went to check on the monster baby. Here is what I found.....

She opened the door to Hunter's dresser and pulled out all of his clothes, she was sitting in the middle of it quite pleased with herself! She has also pulled all the stuffed animals (seems like hundreds) and blankets off of Hunter's toddler bed.

Maybe if I just shut the door she won't notice!

Wasn't me!

Her other skills involve her climbing onto Hunter's bed and bouncing. Emptying dirty clothes hampers, climbing onto the couch and bouncing. Pulling the lamp off of the table, knocking over the tall lamp that sits on the floor. And of course climbing up on the printer and pulling things off of the computer desk. Busy girl!!

Standing on the printer

Oh, I could get in so much trouble

with this credit card!!!

She is wearing an outfit from last summer, I'm glad it still fits, but I don't really think it's any shorter on her this year!! She is pretty snotty today so I did my best to keep her hair out of the boogers!

In other news, Ella had her first extra speech therapy yesterday and did great. She said "ball" a couple of times while attempting to make the sign for it. Her speech is starting to take off and she is trying a lot of new sounds. She has also added a few new signs. She now can sign more, eat, all done, baby, dog, book and tries ball. While watching Baby Signing Time the other day they were signing their theme song and Ella was signing baby and time together, it was so cute. Oh yeah, Ella will also just stand up in the middle of the room and take off walking. She has taken up to about 12 steps by herself, so she is close! I'm so proud of my wild child!!!

Hunter has his first T-ball practice tomorrow night, and somehow I volunteered to be the assistant coach for his team, so that will be fun. My parents are supposed to be closing on their house in Alaska today and will begin the long drive down here tomorrow. It will be so nice to have to have some help around here : )