Ella at 9 Years Old

Favorite Colors: Orange and Pink, Gray and Pink or Yellow and Pink

Favorite Animal: Crab (so she can pinch your nose!)

Favorite Books: The Whatever After Series

Favorite Song: Strangers Like Me (by Phil Collins, who is her favorite singer)

Favorite Movie: Disney's Tarzan

Favorite Show: Odd Squad

Favorite Activity: Arts and Crafts
Favorite Game: Clue
Favorite Flower: Lilac

Favorite School Subject: Library

Favorite Food:Cheesy Ravioli

Favorite Dessert: Cupcakes

Loves to play "mom" in the mom and baby game with the boys
When they play the game, she always pretends she had a husband, but he is gone in the military
Is good at playing with all her siblings and engaging her brothers (when she wants to;)
Loves holding and playing with her little cousins
Has a good imagination
Likes to follow the rules
Can be shy, and needs her downtime, but also loves to play with friends
Loves talking to her friend, Grace, on the phone

Is certified in CPR and first aid after completing a course taught by her dad
Has aspirations to become a paramedic and work in Wisconsin (her birth state;)

Has neat handwriting but does not always have a neat room... she does not mind when her room is a mess and can let a basket of laundry sit in her room for weeks on end;)

Loves wearing black leggings
Does not like jeans
Overall, likes to dress casual but has fun dressing up for tea parties
Likes wearing her hair in a high pony

Last fall, she was very eager to try ballet for the fist time.
She enjoyed the class but decided ballet was a lot harder and more technical than she thought

Still enjoys making up her own dances and songs
 Loves watching shows and movies
Likes to ride her bike around the block
Likes to go fishing with dad
Has grown in her love of reading
Loves listening to audio books and still loves being read to
Likes walking down to the "Little Library" in our neighborhood

Participated in two short plays this past winter
Played the roles of Paula and Blue Star and was in the chorus
Was more nervous to sing in the school choir this year than she was to sing and act in the plays

Has a small dimple on her cheek
Suffered from super dry hands all winter long and into the summer
Has beautiful blue-green eyes
Has grown her hair out to the longest it has been in her entire life
Can often be seen biting on her thumb instead of sucking on it
(It's a hard habit to fully break after so many years;)
Is working on her worries and the troubles they give her from time to time

Loves art and crafts and creativity
Her favorite past time is coloring and drawing
Likes to bake

Some of her favorite creative mediums are chalk and sand
She has perfected the art of making chalk balls with mounds of chalk dust and water
Early this spring she used some of the melting snow to create loafs of bread with her two favorite mediums as well

Is affectionately called Ella, Ella Bella, Els, or Els Bells

Is a sweet girl with a kind and caring heart

We love you, Ella Bella Bernadette!!