Her favorite things...

Our little girl is a non-stop bundle of energy. When she is not running around or banging things together, she follows Mommy and Daddy and watches them intently. She copies everything we do...so we are quickly learning to be careful what she sees us do! (NO cleaning toilets while Ellie is watching!) On thing she currently likes is putting on Mommy or Daddy's shoes.

One current favorite food is shredded cheese. It can be at room temperature, straight from the fridge, or even frozen, it's all the same to her.

Eliana is obsessed right now with bags, especially hanging them around her neck. You can see that she has a purse around her neck. She is also carrying three other bags or toys with handles.When Emily was a kid, she used to play with a tub of cornmeal. So we got the same thing for Eliana, who likes to scoop it from one cup to another, or just let it run through her fingers.

Eliana has recently discovered Ranch dressing, or "auce" as she calls it. (her way of pronouncing sauce - which can also mean ketchup or steak sauce) She asks for it at every meal, regardless of whether or not it is a Ranch dressing-appropriate food. She dips foods in the sauce, but merely as one way of getting sauce to her mouth - she just licks it off. More to the point, is to just run her fingers through it...

Although Eliana still likes being read to, she also enjoys flipping through the pages herself. She has a few animals that interest her and she has memorized which books has that animal. So Eliana will flip through the pages until she finds the animal she wants.

And of course, Go-go, the neighbor's cat, is still her favorite thing besides Mommy and Daddy. Go-go, however, is not as fond of Eliana as in the past. Although Eliana wants to pet Go-go, the cat is always one step ahead of her...

And while Eliana enjoys bathtime, getting her hair washed is NOT one of her favorite things. She doesn't like even the remote possibility of getting a drop of water in her eyes.