Here is Ellie on the 5th. Notice how she goes up on her toes a couple of times. Then at the end notice that she can say the word "no" and how cute it is. Though in a little while I won't be thinking it is very cute.

Ellie is a climbing!

Ellie has recently decided that she is big enough to climb the stairs. She does pretty good at it to. Of coarse we are right with her and use gates at the top and bottom. She went up the whole way on her first try.

Ellie has also taken her first steps on the 24th. She was going in between Paul and I but she would get so excited that she would make herself go off balance. So she has taken a few steps but is not walking on her own yet. She still prefers to crawl because she is so fast and can get where she wants to right now. She hasn't realized the advantages to walking on her own yet, which is fine by me.