Truely Blessed

Ellie has never been a child that needed to be rocked or helded in order to go to sleep. She goes to sleep each night by laying down next to us and falling asleep on her own. She is a pretty good judge of when she is tired and needs to nap (which she does not do very often for us at least). Today after our morning breakfast, cleaning up, and bathing she decided to sleep for a while.

After she woke from her nap we ate a small something for lunch and headed to her room to play. It was so nice to spend the entire day at home with nothing on the agenda. It has been a long time since we have had a day like this. It was great.

Her favorite thing to do is play with her tea set.

Mommy reads...

...then Ellie reads

She had to play on her wooden horse for a few minutes

After we played for a long while we went to watch a little educational TV, so I could get some laundry done. After I had finished I sat down on the couch with her and almost instantly she fell asleep again. The first thing she did when she woke up was the sign for milk. She is really getting it down, she will never go thirst again. We are starting to work on "thank you" and "more."

Now we have settled down waiting for Bob to come home. If you have been wondering why he has not been mention in any of the last few posts, it is because he has been out of town since last Wednesday. He is FINALLY on the plane heading to Louisville. We can't wait to see him, it has been a long six days.

Hope ever one has a good Christmas Eve Eve.