Our Little Monkey

My mom came to visit last weekend and got Ellie jumping on the couch to "Five Little Monkeys". She has a big time! You can also hear her say "Crockett" and "Daddy". Notice that Grant is eating and of course watching Jeopardy in the background!

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Fall is here!

Just wanted to pass along some pics from our weekend. Ellie was sick for the first part, but we were able to get out on Sunday and go for a hike to Frying Pan Tower. We decided against climbing to the top of the fire tower. We went a little ways up, though. The leaves are really starting to change here and it is so pretty up on The Blueridge Parkway.

Yesterday, we went up to the Pumpkin Patch to pick out some pumpkins. Ellie had fun with the little pumpkins thinking they were balls. She would pick them up and throw them! We had to explain they were not balls!

Ellie is really starting to talk and say words we can understand! Her vocab consists of, "Crockett" (her favorite word), "hot", "toot toot", "ma ma", "kitty", "duck", "apple", "daddy", "ball", "baby", "boo", "yucky", and she is now saying "tee tee" when she wets in her diaper. Now if she would just go use the potty! We think that she has an interesting set of words in her vocabulary, but it is so cute when she gets close to the oven and waves her hands and whispers, "hot!". She does the same with "yucky" when she is getting her diaper changed or getting close to something dirty. She is a handful for sure and full of energy, but we wouldn't have her be any other way! Hopefully she will get out of her hitting stage before Maggie arrives!!!!

Football!

Fall is for football! At the end of Sept. we made the trip to Oxford to watch Ole Miss play Vandy. Grant got to join us on the trip! On the way there we stopped in Crossville to see Ellie's buddy, Kayne. Kayne is a month older than Ellie. On the way home we stopped back in Crossville to see Sean and Jessica Stephens and meet their little boy, Grove. We had a good time in Oxford seeing Grandaddy Ellis and my family. Ellie also got see my cousin, Rebecca, and finally meet second cousin Tiley.

Last weekend we went to Charlotte to watch the Chiefs play the Panthers. My good friend, Turk, plays for the Chiefs and got us tickets and passes to the player area afterwards. The Chiefs lost, but we got to see alot of Turk on the field and then see him afterwards. Ellie and Turk finally got to meet! It was so great seeing him and we had a wonderful day. I don't think we'll be going to anymore games this year since we are now counting down the days until Maggie arrives. We have less than a month now! Ellie is patting my stomach and saying "Baby", but we don't think she really knows what that means - especially since she will have to share daddy with another little girl!