Ellie's Adventures

Ellie has been exploring her world lately in a serious way. For a long time, she moved herself about with an army crawl, necessitating daily washings of whatever outfit she happened to dust the floor. Then one day she suddenly found her hands and knees, and she's been going crazy ever since. Then she discovered that not only could she pull herself up on furniture, she could pull herself up the stairs. We've only had two major falls - she's pretty good at it, and she doesn't seem to consider a bad tumble a setback of any kind. What a champ. She's also learned to pull all the books off her shelf and thumb through them at rapid speed. Today at church she found something very new and fascinating - the organ pedals. We are practicing for the Primary program in the chapel, and to keep Ellie occupied I let her pound on the organ manuals (organ off, obviously). Then she saw the pedals. So I put her on the floor and she crawled all over them like an obstacle course. It was a perfect plaything, and I sincerely hope that the organ can't be ruined while it's off. If so, I suppose this blog is me owning up that it is my fault if the organ starts making strange sounds - or no sounds.

Ellie also *loves* her sunglasses. She won't keep any sort of bow or headband in her hair, but if her sunglasses fall off, she immediately tries to get them back on. She gets lots of compliments on them, and looks very sophisticated at the park, in the car, walking in the sunshine, or sitting in church.

It's also Buckeye Football Season (yes, in caps), meaning that Ellie has a new Buckeye jersey and must wear it every game day. She loves the feel of the fabric and is quite happy to crawl around at Grandma and Grandpa's house while we watch the Bucks win week after week after week. Nothing says autumn has arrived like football at THE Ohio State University. Go Bucks!

(And in case you haven't heard, Gordon Gee, a fellow Mormon, is returning to Columbus for an encore performance as President of THE OSU. Good thing the OSU song, Carmen Ohio, is set to the same tune as Come Ye Children of the Lord!)