Big Girl

We have been saying that a lot around here lately. About two weeks ago she was starting to climb out her her crib in the mornings and after naps so I decided to put her in her toddler bed. She took to it pretty well and it wasn't a really huge transition.

But last night at 2 am I wake up to hear her crying hesterically. I had found her in the middle of the floor crying and I figured she just fell out her her bed. Well this morning I see that she has a knot on her head and some skin missing, a bruise underneath that, and what looks like a burn mark under her chin. Weird, huh!?I can't figure out how she got all that from falling out her bed!
Some other big girl and new things:
- Almost can sing the entire alphabet.
- One day all of a sudden she starting calling me mom. I almost wanted to cry and said. "no Ella Reese, say mommy". To which kept calling me mom. Then the next day she started calling Ryan Dad. It is weird, but I suppose I am use to it now.
-Counts to almost 15 sometimes
-Tells me "fank you" for everything thing! Even after I spank her for getting out of her bed, I pull her covers up and she will tell me "fank you!" in a sweet high voice.
- She loves to play with dean under the dinner table after meals or anytime. She will say " hoo hoo dean-o!" and clap her hands or slap her legs to get him to follow her. She will crawl off and dean will excitedly follow her.
-She likes to help me carry groceries from the car to the house
- I will find her singing songs to herself. One day in the car she sang "fank you, fank you fank you!" over and over all the way home from walmart. It was too cute.
If she hears a song a few times she will sing it. She knows the chorus to a lot of the Matt Redman worship songs I am listening to now. It is so cute to hear her sing "I will wor-ship you!".
And I have a favorite song on my Passion CD where in the chorus a girl sings "Hal-le-luuu-jah!". And ER will sing it with arms stretched out and lips up in the air swaying her head back and forth. Very charismatic.

I found this Ariel make up stand in someone's trash by the curb. I snagged it and gave it some TLC. Ell Reese loves it. She will wear this apron Brenda got her (which she calls her Cinderella dress), wear her Cinderella slippers and put on "make up". She really looks like a big girl when she started playing with it. She has little odds and ends that she decorated her new make up stand when we first put it in her room. She decorated with a purse we made out of trash that morning during our Art time, a toy car, a ceramic bear that Brenda got her, her panda bear and I gave her an old make up brush and empty compact. It seems over night her "baby room" has turned into a big girl room. So sweet, but sad to officially see my baby not a baby anymore!