the poulsen parade: Eleven Months

This age is the BEST!! Gosh, I just love her so much now. This past month has been really great. Ella has been healthy and happy and things are just going so well. She is so incredibly fun, and i love watching her see and experience new things--the look on her face is priceless. Ella is curious and very interested in the world around her, always wants to see whats going on, who's that new person, what are they up to, whats that noise, etc.

Yep things are wonderful right now. Life is good:) I love this sweet little girl and I love being her mom!

At 11 Months Ella:

- waves! It's adorable, sometimes she'll even mimic me and say hi!

- pulls herself up to standing all over the place, and can take a couple of steps holding onto furniture

-will say yay while clapping, and if i just say yay, she'll start clapping--she knows they go together!

- LOVES eggs. Seriously loves them. I made 4 scrambled eggs for breakfast the other day and maybe ate one eggs worth of them and she ate the rest along with banana and some puffs. She's getting a little better about eating solid food, although she still normally doesn't eat a ton.(Unless I give her eggs/strawberries, which now that I think about is kinda funny, because my very first pregnancy craving was for a quiche:))

- Still not a very independent player, likes to be where I am, and usually wants to be in the middle of whatever I'm doing. And will always follow me from room to room around the apartment.

- Still wakes up 1-2 times a night

- Will hold something over her face and wait for me to say where's Ella? and then pull it down and I'll say there she is and then she'll laugh and put it over her face again

- still loves to be read to and will sometimes "read" her books on her own, will flip the pages, look at the pictures and babble

- has gotten very good at opening and closing doors, and cupboards

- Is just the cutest, sweetest, funnest 11 month-old around:)

The weather here in Galveston is finally starting to cool down and has been so nice lately,
perfect for crawling around at the beach!

Ella and Grandpa Jenson
My dad was able to visit for a couple days during general conference, Ella loved having her favorite playmate down for a visit!

Grandpa and Grandma Poulsen sent Ella this cute book for her first Halloween!

I was trying to take 11 month pictures of Ella with my camera but she was way too interested in my camera and wouldn't stop trying to crawl after it and grab it, so I finally just handed it to her and took pictures of her with my iphone while she played with my camera:/