Ella took her first real road trip this past weekend -- she, Mom, and I headed down to Georgia to visit family. It was E's first time staying in a hotel (or sleeping in the same room with other people since she was about 5 months old), and she acted like she'd been doing it all her life -- an old pro. She met a lot of new people this weekend, too -- not one of her favorite things, but she was a trooper. Like me, she just tends to stay away from the people she doesn't like ;)
She's still picking up new words all the time, which is both good and bad (the bad, in case you're wondering, would be when she chose to scream out "SHIT!" in the middle of the Mexican restaurant). She's working on her numbers and alphabet, and shocked me to death the other day when I asked her to spell her name for me to write, and she actually DID it. Amazing. She picks out things on the TV or in the store that Jon and I don't even notice, and names them correctly.
Independence is definitely starting to be asserted. She has no problem saying "No!" -- often and loudly. Usually, though, she's just testing, and will wind up being cooperative. We've had very few full-blown tantrums as of yet (knock on wood).
We did have this little exchange the other day, as she was playing with her pots and pans.
Mommy: Whatcha cookin', Ella?
Ella: Food.
*face-palm* Yep, I've got a smartypants in the making. She gets it natural, anyway.
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