A new smile

One final note in this series of updates: Ella fell on a cement path yesterday and chipped one of her top front teeth. It certainly hurt and she cried a good deal, but as far as we can tell (and she'll meet our dentist for the first time tomorrow to get checked out) the damage is just cosmetic. She looks a bit more rough and tumble now, which is funny, as she is a relatively cautious two-year old who often reassures me that "Ella careful, Mama, Ella take her time." when coming "beep-beep" (backwards) "boom-boom" (downstairs). It is funny how certain words from her original vocabulary have held out despite the addition of words like "hippopotamus" and "everybody"... We'll send some pictures of the new smile when we catch it on film, but haven't yet as we don't want to make too big a deal of it...