A Handful of Hancocks: Ella-14 months

This little girl is growing up and is getting more emotional every day. I’m getting scared. If she does not get her way she kicks her feet as fast as she can, throws herself on the ground, and screams. It’s quite funny. She hates getting her diaper changed or getting dressed. She cries and tries to get away.

But don’t get me wrong. She is such a cutie. Look at that face.

I do love her.

She loves accessories and everything is a necklace. We have to watch her close because everything string like is a necklace and goes around her neck. She likes her purse and puts it on her arm.

Where does she learn this stuff??

We have a couple whistles around the house, and she’s figured out how to blow them. She loves her babies and books. She does like to play catch with a ball as well.

She eats just about anything. She loves fruit and broccoli. She takes 1 nap a day and sleeps about 12 hours at night. She still loves her binky and blanket. I keep vowing to take away the bink, but yeah, I haven’t wanted to subject myself to that kind of torture yet :)

This summer we’ve gone swimming several times, and she really loves that. She’s getting to be a bit of a challenge in the shopping cart and in the stroller because she doesn’t want to ride in them, she wants to push them while I hold her. And that’s just not that comfortable for that long. When I tell her no and make her sit, she throws huge fit.

Love these cute feet.

The other day, Ella helped me clean out my purse. And bonus, she found a tootsie pop. Too bad she couldn’t figure out how to get the paper off.

I am surprised how little she gets into stuff. She does her fair share, but there’s lots of stuff we haven’t had to put out of reach cause she doesn’t bother it. So not like our boys. And maybe it’s just the mobility thing.

Ella’s been in physical therapy for about 2 months. It’s going pretty well, and we’re starting to see some progress now. A lot of it is working with her at home.

We’ve practiced crawling over things, up on the couch cushions, and then down.

Sometimes it’s torturous.

We practice going up and down the stairs all. the. time. When a baby goes up stairs they have to put weight on one of their feet and push up to the next step. It wasn’t until last week and she started putting weight on her feet for super short periods of time. Today she went up a couple stairs all by herself which is big for her.