All Done

Ellie is the typical kid.  When she is done eating, she doesn't want ANYTHING on her plate.  She will take each tiny piece of food (we still give her small pieces even though she is biting off chucks with those 3 tiny, cute, bottom teeth), and hand it to me.  If I am not available (wandering around the kitchen cleaning up or prepping Jeff and my food), she will gingerly drop each little morsel (one-by-one) onto the counter or floor if her seat is close enough to the edge.  Fortunately, she has not learned that foods she does not prefer must leave her plate immediately.  Also, she is not aware that the two dogs would gladly eat anything she offered.  Finally, thankfully, Jeff has trained our two intelligent canines that they can not have anything that is not offered to them.  Unfortunately, this means I have to clean the floor!

Ellie pulls herself up on any and everything.  She is not yet walking, but we do see her "cruise" - walk while holding on to things - just a little bit.  So, I will call today the first day of cruising - it is really hard to pin point these things.  Although she seems to understand how to do things, like cruising, she chooses the faster method - crawling.  One of her favorite activities to do now is look out the window.