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    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

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Ellie and I were watching a little home video snippet on the ipad this morning and when it ended she said “Again!”  Not “more” but the correct “again.”  She’s such a little smarty pants!!!!!!

Ellie woke up this morning calling Will “Buggy” which I quickly realized was ‘Buddy’ (which I call him all the time). Sadly “Buggy” is rapidly transforming into the correct “Buddy” as the day wears on, but Buggy is the cutest nickname for a big brother ever!

pomm

Means ‘open’ in Ellie-speak.  I just figured this out and had a light-bulb moment!

Yesterday I picked up Ellie from the neighbor (who watched her while I went to Will’s conference) and when I picked her up she gave me the 10 second rundown without me even asking “fun. kitty. show. eat-eat. play.”  She learned “funny” right after “fun” and it is my favorite of her words.  It’s so cute when she calls people funny while giggling at their jokes!

language explosion

Ellie is a language nut.  Yesterday she busted out “fun” after I picked her up from VillaKids, this morning it was “puddle” and then she just told me to “come sit!”

Once upon a time there was a handsome prince named Will. He married a beautiful baby sister named Ellie. The end.

Will telling Ellie “a bedtime story”