Ella is really becoming a little girl now. It’s funny how I noticed this just recently. It must have been the fact that I can now shop for her clothes in the ‘girls’ section of a store, instead of the baby area ( I must admit…this has opened a new door that I’m sure my husband would prefer be closed!). I was talking recently to a friend about the fact that Ella was born in a year when there seemed to be a disproportionate amount of boys to girls. Amongst my close friends, Ella was the only girl. This meant that a. she would have her pick of boyfriends in years to come, and b. that she would either have to become a ‘tom boy’, or boss the boys into playing ‘princesses’.
Not that we have ‘shown’ or ‘taught’ her about being overly ‘girly’…apart from the barrage of pink. I just want her to be happy with what ever she wants to do! It made me wonder however, about how she ‘learns’ about being a ‘girl’ and doing particularly ‘girly’ things? The penny dropped this week, when I saw Ella putting a bangle on her wrist and waving it around proudly. She learns it from Mummy. Quite simple really. I wonder what else she learns from Mummy? This week I also noticed the fact that she put her bejewelled handbag over her shoulder and proceded to walk around the house. This cute little bag that was given to her as a Christmas present has up until now, sat in the toy bucket…waiting to be put to good use. Well, now…she carries it everywhere. She’s also proceeded to put every toy, phone shaped or not, up to her ear and say ‘haiiiiiiiiiiy’. Needless to say, we must be on our phones a bit.
We were recently going to meet Ella’s Daddy one night after work, when I realised that I didn’t need to carry her the entire time anymore! As we walked to the tram stop, I put her down so she could walk on her own. She just loved it. It was like a whole new world had opened up for her. She has trodden the pavement so many times in her pram, yet this was the first time she had walked on it with her own two feet. She looked like such a beautiful little girl, with the who world before her.
This little clip shows how joyous walking really can be…
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Our baby girl really is growing so fast now. I hope she keeps having the time of her life, just like we are.
