Ellie has a singing Halloween tree that she loves to hear, but up until a week ago was still too afraid to push the on button herself and would watch from a safe distance of 5-10 feet away. In the course of the last week, she has not only become comfortable enough with the tree to turn it on by herself, but she has taken to caring for the tree. She tries to feed it and give it "tea" from her kitchen set. Yesterday, she came in to tell us that the tree had "poopies"..."yucky poopies!" We thought that was pretty funny. Then, a few minutes later, we found Ellie on the floor in her room surrounded by her wipes warmer that she had taken down from the shelf for the occasion and several discarded wipes that she had clearly pulled out, and using another wipe to clean the tree's "poopies"! The tree is dark brown, so we can only imagine her need to use so many wipes to try to clean it. :) You can see her holding the tree down in this picture.
After she finished cleaning the tree's "poopies," Ellie brought two diapers out of her room and wanted Papa to help her put one on the tree. She's taking care of the tree in these pictures! Grammy Gayle thinks that Ellie is getting ready to be a big sister to the new baby brother due in February! I had been waiting to give Ellie her first baby doll until the baby arrives so that it would be a special gift to mark the transition, but after seeing that our poor daughter had to resort to being a "mommy" of a singing tree, I promptly jumped online and a real dolly should be arriving by the end of the week! Hopefully she'll be this caring with the real baby when he arrives!
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