Christmas fun--while in KY, we visited my best friend from high school. Her new baby was a fascination to Ellery as are all babies now. I guess even though she still acts like a baby at times, she realizes she is more of a grown up toddler. She also had fun tearing in Noni's kitchen cabinets. Ellery can now say a couple "words" like "dah" for dog and "bah" for ball. She says something for yes that must be an imitation for the Spanish word for yes (si) because she sounds like she is saying "sah". She really likes to copy behaviors like blowing on her food or giving kisses or whatever her brother does (spitting, car sounds, etc).