- Her favorite DVD to watch in the car is Dora the Explorer. She is amazed at how Dora and Diego fly in the beginning. Every time she scream, "Dora is flying! She's flying!" Ella would like to fly too, but the closest she gets is when Daddy throws her in the air. She says she can't fly because she doesn't have wings.
- Ella would like to eat olives for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if I'd let her. When we are grocery shopping and walk past the olives, she usually sneaks a can into the cart without asking. Today she tried feeding them to her baby doll.
- She runs in circles around things for no apparent reason. Sometimes she pleads me to join in on the fun. The only way Tyler could get her to eat dinner last night was for her to run around the kitchen table. Each time she passed him, he yelled "tollbooth," and she had to take a bite of food.
- Ella likes kisses better than hugs. She gives me multiple kisses, pecking my cheeks, nose, and lips. She likes it best if she is giving the kisses and not receiving them. If I hug her too much, she says I am squeezing the energy out of her and to please stop.
- Ella's is afraid of a few things... Spiders and bugs of any kind. She calls them all flies and covers her eyes until I remove the scary "fly" from the house. She's even had nightmares about bugs crawling on her. She's also afraid of me leaving the house when she is taking a nap or going to sleep at night. "Don't leave the house mommy," she pleads. "Just leave my room."
- Ella's current favorite book is her toddler Bible. It goes from Genesis to Revelation, highlighting the most popular stories in a very simplistic form with a large picture and a few simple sentences on each page. She chooses it every night for her bedtime story and would be the happiest if I would read it from cover to cover, but neither of us could stay awake that long. We usually end our reading time with her saying that she loves Jesus and wants to make him happy.
