Life is for those who LIVE!!!

As always, I feel like the end of the year is a good time for reflection.  You have to know where you've been in order to move forward.  It's like being on a ship, checking the log, and righting the ship towards the destination.  2017 was a pretty decent year at the Rollins Residence. January 2017 -  Luke turned 4!  We had a paw patrol party for him. Paw Patrol party for Luke! Ellis is 8 months and is now pulling herself up to stand at things. Big girl and Luke like to play together February 2017 - I turned 33.  It was not a big birthday year for me.  Nothing new to report. Ellis is 9 months.  She and Luke are so cute together.  Luke got lots of testing done, blood work, colonoscopy, and finally allergy skin testing.  But at the end of the day, we found out that he's perfectly fine.  He's allergic to dairy, yeast, soy, apples and peanuts. Luke's allergy testing March 2017 -  Ellis is 10 months and final

At 15 months Ellis: weighs 24 lbs 3 oz - 83 percentile height 31 inches - 42 percentile wears size 2T clothes wears size 5 diapers -  Ellis LOVES food.  She signs "more" and will say "peas" for please -  Ellis walks everywhere now!  She even tries to run.  She looks so cute because she walks with her hands up in the air like she is saying "goal" -  Ellis knows how to point to her nose, eyes, ears, hair, mouth, bellybutton and feet when you ask her to.  She knows what sound a fish, snake, monkey and cow make. -  The only word Ellis clearly consistently says is UP with a very pronounced P sound. -  She still takes two naps a day.  One at 10am and one at 2. -  Her favorite mischievous thing to do is sneak in our room and turn on the water faucet on the bathtub.  She knows it's sneaky and she loves to do it.

At 11 months Ellis: weighs 22 lbs is 28 inches long wears size 3 diapers wears size 18 months clothing  takes 2 naps a day eats most of everything we eat has 2 bottom teeth At 11 months, Ellie: - finally learned how to crawl!  Except she mostly just army crawls.  She doesn't know how to crawl on her hands and knees yet.  - she LOVES standing at things like the activity table and coffee table.  She also LOVES her walker.  She can zip around the kitchen in that thing so quickly! -  She is waving hi and by now and will say "hi" occasionally too.  -  She scrunches up her nose and blows air out of it and thinks that is hilarious -  She knows how to shake her head no