Play Date, Fun with the Dogs, and Walking

On Friday morning Ella Kate and I hosted playdate. We had a great turn out and the kids played so sweet together. Ella Kate is particularly interested in the older kids and she loves loves little Ali who is 2. She crawled up to Ali got right in her face and just smiled. :) So so sweet.
On Saturday we went to little Abigail's 5th b'day party and Ella Kate basically ate an entire cupcake with ice cream. She just kept smiling and opening her mouth. Dave was in charge of feeding her and he just kept shoveling it in. Dave and Mandy have a great swing set at their house so Ella Kate got to swing and slide which she loves. The slide was pretty high and me nor Dave could believe how much she loved it. I mean the slide was probably 6-7 feet tall. I would set her at the top and Dave would be at the bottom to catch her. She just cackled and laughed the entire time. We did not get any pictures but took alot of video. After the party on Saturday we went to Toys R' Us just to look around at some of the playground stuff as Ella Kate needs some things to climb on. She is a big climber. We did not buy anything but had so much fun looking. We put Ella Kate in one of the hot pink hummer electric cars and she thought she was something big. She did not want to get out!!

On Sunday we went to church, got JoJo a long long overdue hair cut and had lunch at Golden Corral. Ella Kate has become such a good eater. She eats #3 baby food with no problem but really prefers big people food. At Golden Corral she ate green beans, steamed carrots, tomatoes, chicken, turkey, and mac & cheese. And of course she had a little ice cream for dessert. She is starting to walk and can easily take 3-4 steps to get to her destination. She cannot walk across a room yet unless we are holding her hand but we are making big progress with walking. She wants to walk all by herself so bad. I don't think it will be long before I am running to catch up with her. We are also starting to transition her off the bottle. She has been taking sippy cups with juice/water since she was about 5-6 months so lately I have been putting her morning bottle in a sippy cup and she has been doing just fine. My plan is to next replace her lunch bottle with formula in a sippy cup and then dinner, and lastly night. We will see how my plan goes. I am hoping to get her pretty much off the bottle and using a sippy cup by her 1st b'day and then work on the transition from formula to whole milk. The plans sounds great in my head but we will see how Miss Priss reacts to it :)
Ella Kate trying to get a taste of the treats for Play Date.

Succeeding at getting a pig in a blanket.

Looking outside waiting for her little friends to arrive.

All dressed up for church trying to get outside to play with her dogs.

Brushing her teeth with Daddy. She loves to brush her teeth. She now has 8 teeth!!!!

Wrestling with the dogs on our bed in her new Jamaica t-shirt.