Ellie has had a very busy summer, a trip to the Indy Zoo, Louisville Zoo & several trips to the Evansville Zoo-thanks to Auntie Gayle for our season passes. Played t-ball & has now started soccer, lots of swimming in Papaw's pool (time for swim lessons), the FTIA adoption reunion to visit her Hunan friends and others. A few birthday parties which she always enjoys. A few visits from Uncle Jeff from Nashville who always teaches her "bad" things. She loved vacation bible school making crafts, daddy and I enjoy seeing those crafts in the house (a painted coaster and wind chime)-hand made by Ellie with a little help. A boating trip to Patoka Lake with friends-first time in a lake and no fear & just couldn't understand why she had to wear a life jacket-she is my dare devil. She is learning to write her ABC's-can write most of her upper case and is now learning her lower case, counts to about 15. Still very independent & wants to do everything on her own with not a lot of patience-her daddy claims she gets that from me but I think that is just her personality. I guess that means she will succeed in life. It can be a challenge right now. She is now looking forward to her beach trip to Jamaica in a few weeks, this will be her first trip to the beach. I imagine she will enjoy her "huge" sandbox and it will be a hard time getting her to understand why we have to go home. Summer is coming to an end and the winter is always a challenge since she loves to play outside even though she doesn't like to be hot and requests to be in the shade-funny for a 3 year old who loves to be outside! Every day brings us a smile with our spicey Hunan "big girl" as Ellie would say!
