Fall Activities

Things are still going as well as ever for the Roggia
family in Virginia. We are keeping busy and having fun.
Adam only has a couple weeks worth of classes left for
his first semester of DPT school, then a full month off! YAY!
I know I say this a lot, but Ellie seems to be getting crazier
by the day. She keeps us laughing more than we ever thought
possible. She is just really funny, and really smart, and
really wacky. She's gotten at least two more teeth lately,
so a total of 8 that we know of for now. She was over 26 lbs
at the doctor last week and is 14 months old. Yay Ellie!

She loves to do things by herself. She got mad when I tried to
help her with the relatively huge rake the other day. She
did a pretty good job on her own though.

These are just some of my favorite shots I got of her that
same day while we were playing around in the yard.

She had to put on the oven mitt the other night so
that she could help with the cookies. She's a hard worker.
And of course, Tucker was right there by her side... usually
hoping for a chance to steal any snacks she might have.

The hard work paid off with some super-yummy cookies.

She has been all over poor Tucker lately. He tries to be patient,
most of the time. But she just loves to pull on him, follow him,
hug him, tackle him, tease him.... etc. She just cracks up anytime
she sees that she can make him mad. She lives in the danger zone.

This was from this today. I don't know how she gets so
dirty like this, so quickly. It's kinda crazy sometimes... but
it suits her, so who am I to question such matters?

Some other quick stories...
A couple of Sundays ago, Grandpa gave the prayer in
Sunday School, and as soon as everyone said "amen" and
he headed back toward us, Ellie looked at him proudly and
started clapping for him. Our classmates nearby were quite
entertained by that. GO PRAYING!
Also, when Ellie is poopy now, she will answer us yes by
grabbing her diaper. So we say, "ok, let's go change," and
she leads us from whatever room we are in, all the way to her
room, grabs a diaper, and sits or lays in her usual changing spot.
Funny little girl.