Like baby, like baby

Ellen's been enjoying the last couple days of summer. She got a baby doll for her birthday and she's been having fun with that. She likes to change the diapers CONSTANTLY. She'll rip open the front of her clothes and try to pry the diaper off, and when that doesn't work she'll carry the baby by the half-ripped off diaper to us and ask for help. But, she's been pretty good with it otherwise...
baby sleeps next to her bed and, as you can see, they have pretty similar sleeping methods...
she also makes sure that baby is properly fed

and walked.

Besides that, Ellen has been getting sooooo much bigger. She climbed up on the couch the other day and was soooo proud of herself for making a seat of pillows to sit on.

And, she's really started to drool a lot while sleeping... she's a little like daddy afterall!

And, we finally took another trip to the zoo recently. She was very excited to leave the house. She even sat still long enough for me to style her hair (which took longer than you might think).

I think she started to fall asleep in the car on the way to the zoo, so when we got there she didn't seem as excited as she was when we left the house.

But, she eventually woke up. She got really excited to see the hippos (which she knew by name... I was worried she'd think they had to look like her purple clippo hippo toy). And, she LOVED the zebra as well. She wanted to stay there for over 10 minutes watching it eat hay.

Then we got around to the giraffe, which was neat because it was in it's pen, and it walked over to the window that we were looking through and started licking it. Ellen had fun getting kisses from a giraffe.

She started yawning, so we headed home. It was a fun trip!