Ragamuffin

Ella is going through a bit of a ragamuffin stage.

 I'm hoping we're at the tail end of it now that she's walking.

When she was crawling/ scooting around, that girl had her clothes turned black in no time.

She really likes to be outside crawling around in the dirt, eating whatever she can get in her mouth.

Yuck!

I did not have to worry about this with Aidan, he just didn't stick things in his mouth that much or get that dirty. ☺

Check out that hair.

I try to tame the mane with bows, but she pulls them out, hands them back to me, and says "Thank You".

In order to get a bow to sucessfully stay in the hair, I have to plant a decoy bow.

One that she can pull out, hand back to me, but leave the other one still in. 

Sometimes she's on to me and pulls them both out. 

Here she's all dressed up for church and looking somewhat proper. 

However, she's NOT going to smile. ☺

What a girl.