Ella has mastered the sippy cup and it doesn't even have the little insert in it which makes it a sippy cup, she is just drinking straight...

Ella wasn't sure she wanted to be in a picture with me

But she was all smiles

She is just getting so big so fast...she has accomplished all sorts of things lately: she stood for a brief moment all by herself, she likes to climb one stair, she does a great downward dog, she is pointing at things and starting to identify them, especially the cat. Other words she has mastered: duck, dog, mama, dada, cat, more, thank you, i love you, hi, hey, bye, (the last 3 with waves). She really is picking up things fast, she knows when she is thristy versus hungry and which hand to hold out to get what either mom or dad are eatting

And she LOVES books