memory

yesterday h. came over to go for a walk with ella and me at appleton farm. before we left the apartment h. asked elenora "what does daddy do?" which i thought was an odd question. i was wondering "does she want ella to tell her j. is a clinical therapist?" after about thirty seconds ella wrinkled up her nose and sniffed. which is so funny because about two weeks ago j. had allergies and was sniffing a lot and we noticed that every time he sniffed she would copy him. h. was referring to that, but even i didn't remember what she was talking about because we haven't asked ella that question in weeks. i can't believe that elenora remembered that and knew to do that.

also, we have a stack of her birthday cards on the coffee table in the living room, and she likes to pull them off and distribute them around the floor. momby says that a week ago she mentioned maybe once that there was an angel on one of the cards, but yesterday morning she asked ella "which card has an angel on it?" and ella went right over and grabbed it.

what an amazing memory!

at ella's birthday party she still didn't look like she had hair (even though there was a couple inches already). but in this last month her hair has really started to fill out and you can see it very cleary. people still remark "oh, she's a red-head, huh?" when they see her. here's a photo: