Today

Today has several different meaning to me.

Most importantly, my daughter is 16 months old. She is more fun, more social, more friendly, and more wild than I could ever imagine. She has learned to not only climb the baby gates which she's done months ago but now, she out right climbs OVER it. So much for safety! Her tenth tooth has cut through a couple of weeks ago and I'm hoping, praying that it means that she'll eat better. I suppose it would help if her bottom molars cut through but I can see the gums swelling so I"m sure it's any day from now.

Elle has also added a few more words to her vocab. The most notable and also the most funny (at least to me) is her daddy's name. It is 100% my fault because even though I normally call him "honey" or "sweety" when he's around me, when I need him, and he's not around, I'll scream out his name. Most of the time, he's in the garage at the back of the house so I'll stand by the back door and scream out his name, usually 3 times because he doesn't hear me the first couple of times. Then all of a sudden, 2 weeks ago, Elle climbed up the shoe box by the back door, looked out the window and said his name, you guessed it, 3 times, really loud! Now she says it alllll the time. If she says Ah-Pah and he doesn't answer, she'll just shout out his name. It's freaking hilarious but of course A-man hates it. hee hee.

She's also learned her name. As you can see in the video. But since she also says Hello and Hola, It's really hard to know for sure if she's saying Ella or those other 2 words. We'll just pretend she knows them all independently of each other.

I think she pretty much understands everything I say. The other day, she pointed at A-man's hat on the coat rack and said "Ah-pah" and patted her own head. She also has retrieved items for me. That is great for this lazy mom sometimes. I've asked for the phone or her shoes and she's brought them to me without a hitch.

I guess we'll be signing her up for college soon.

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Today also marks the 7th anniversary of my father's death. He past away on November 1, 2001 from liver cirrhosis . He was an alcoholic and even though (from what I've heard) he had been sober for many years prior to his illness, I guess his liver just gave up.

I really don't want to go into more details than that since we've been estranged for about 10 years before he past away.

I just came back from visiting the cemetery.

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Today is also the day that my mom and step father took over managing our business for us. That means that from now on I'll be a full time stay at home mom. I'll probably go into the store just as much to help out but I don't HAVE to which is the cool part.