Ann Elizabeth is growing so much! She says more and more everyday. Of course most of it can only be understood by Alex and I, but it is so sweet hearing her chatter. I know I've said it before, but Sterling really didn't do this. He went having about five words (maybe three, b/c everything was a ball for a while) to speaking in sentences. I know it wasn't really, but it felt like over night. I love listening to this baby babble. The best part of her chatter is her female animation. She has so many facial expressions when she talks and she has started moving her hands when she is talking to us about something too. She is speaking in some sentences, but the best is when she says maybe one sentence we can understand, and then goes on for about five minutes about something and we have no clue what she is saying. Alex and I just laugh, especially when these conversations are directed at Sterling. Toward him they usually sound like instructions; she is very mothering to him, even though he is older, it is so funny!
She loves telling him to eat at suppertime. I guess she hears that a lot. "Eat, Sterning, Eat" or "Stop that, Sterning" or she will just get this furrowed brow and go into that baby chatter that we don't understand. Thankfully he doesn't really notice or seem to care, but I have tried to stop laughing at her and telling her instead not to be bossy to Sterling.
Funny story about this morning. Ann Elizabeth woke up kind of early crying, which is highly abnormal. I checked on her to see what was wrong, which I still don't know what it was. Sterling walked out to go to the bathroom. It wasn't time for him to get up and we are working on getting him to stay in bed until it is time to get up, so I sent him back to bed, which upset him. He came in our room in what seemed like five minutes, but I guess it was closer to 25. Anyway, it was in fact time for him to get up and he was a bit confused as to what he was supposed to do. All that to say he was already a little upset when we started the morning. He asked me at some point in this back and forth if Ann Elizabeth was two. I told him yes.
When it was actually time to wake up he was sobbing. I thought it was something about having to go back to bed. It was that can't catch your breath kind of crying. I asked him what was wrong and through sobs he told me that he was sad because Ann Elizabeth was not a baby anymore. He kept saying I just want a baby sister. He wasn't making any sense really, but what I pieced together from what he said was he thought that she would magically change upon the morning of her second birthday from a baby into a big girl, which is funny because we already talk about how she isn't really a baby anymore. He thought she would be able to talk like him, he kept saying something about her having a new head, and at some point said something about a mustache.
I think he thought that now that she was two, she would be completely different. I think the "different head" was saying he thought she would look grown, maybe even like an adult. He kept saying that he wanted a baby sister, or another baby sister. I said, "Do you not want her anymore?" He said, "Yeah, I want her I just want to have a baby sister." Eventually he got it sorted out and when we all got good and awake and he saw that she was the same Ann Elizabeth as she was the day before he felt much better. I still wish I really knew what was going on in his mind, but I do think it is sorted out now. It was all I could do though to keep a straight face, because he was just so upset and yet it was so funny!
We sported the pony tail today for the first time! I loved it, she looked so grown up. We had pancakes this morning so I pulled it back, and it was so cute, we had to leave it!
I'm pretty sure in this picture she is watching "Belle" or "Rella." As I said before, she loves, LOVES the Disney princesses. She asks for either "Belle" or "Rella" on a daily basis. If I don't hear or acknowledge her requests to "watch," she goes to the armoire and pulls out the heavy drawer that houses the DVDs, she has always been incredibly strong, and finds the face of the princess she wants to watch for the day.
Teeing off
Ann Elizabeth decided to join in the races
Happy Birthday Precious Girl!! We love you so much!!
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She is SO pretty and SO sweet. I loved reading about all of her new accomplishments. She reminded me so much of Ella at that age. E totally did the start out with a few words you understand and then go off for several minutes with a lot of babble. James was actually like that, too, always so much to say,so passionately. Also, I never imagined they would like Disney princesses at such a young age! Ella was just like AE, getting up in the middle of the night to pull out "Mermaid."
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