Oh, How They Grow!

Mae (1 year), Chloe (9 Months), Ellie (6 Months)

Okay, so I rounded up. They are all just about a two weeks from being such ages. Where has the time gone? I love it when Misty comes to visit. You hear that Misty?! LOVE IT! Ellie enjoyed seeing her cousins. Ellie and I don't get out much and she needs as much social interaction as she can get. I look back at that little nugget on the end and just say, Man, my bean is cute!

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A few weeks ago I let Ellie play in the grass for the first time. I have let her feet touch the grass a few times before, but I have been weary of letting her sit in it. I think it is mostly that I don't like the way the grass feels on my legs so I just figure she wont like it either. Well, Ellie loves the grass! She sat there and grabbed handful after handful of grass. Ripping it out by it's roots!

 One of Ellie's faces she pulls. She looks mad, but she isn't, just making faces. And to add to that this month she has started sitting up on her own. She loves to sit up and I am glad she can finally do it on her own. She loves my good morning song I sing to her every morning. And to tell you the truth I love to watch her face when I sing to her. The smiles are to die for!

And another little tidbit, Josh and I got our hair cut. I tried to talk Josh into doing something different with his hair, but he wouldn't have it. He has only had two hair styles in his life! For my hair I told my sister-in-law that I wanted it short, but I really didn't want a "mom" hair cut! haha. I know I have the hips of a mom but I can't have the hair of one too! Brittany did so good on my hair I love it! Now to just learn how to do it on my own. One of the downsides of being a tom boy and always having your hair in a pony tale, it is hard to learn to do it another way. So if anyone needs a hair cut out there. My sister-in-law is AMAZING!

Gerber Photo Search

I NEED YOUR HELP! I have sumbitted Ellie's photo into the Gerber Generation Photo Search. Voting for her photo is open for the rest of the month and we need more votes! If you could take a second and  VOTE FOR ELLIE HERE. (ID Number: 88489) You are given one vote per day, per computer/ per email address. Please vote as much as you can! Thank you so much! Feel free to pass it along!

Spoon On The Nose

Ellie playing before dinner time!

She eats so good for Josh.

She eats, like, all of it.

She refuses to eat when I try feed her.

Good thing Dad likes to feed her the cereal!

Rise and Shine...

We woke up and went for a walk this morning. I guess since sleeping in to 10 AM is out of the question. Our nights with Ellie go: bed at 9 PM, feeding at 2 AM, feeding at 5 AM, up at 8 AM. JOY. The good thing is we still have a short morning nap, a long noon nap and a short evening  nap. So after we got back from our walk, Ellie cuddled up in her new favorite spot, my lap, and fell asleep.

In other news:
Ellie found her feet. I really didn't think it was possible for her to bend past her big belly!

We are almost done with our classes to be licensed to host foster children. We missed one class, so we have to retake it. It was very nice having my mom watch Ellie for us while we were in the 4 hour classes. Last night my mom couldn't come up and we took Ellie with us... It was a LONG 4 hours. Ellie only had a 30 minute nap all day and was in much need of more sleep time. But being in a different place, she refused. She would start to cave and then she would sit straight up, open her eyes wide and start talking. Oh, Bean.

Ellie has started rice cereal earlier in the month. She loves it!

Ellie loves her bath again! Hooray! She plays with her blue rubber ducky and kicks in the water. Finally, smiles all the time!

Josh is about ready to start doing massage out of the house or making home visit (in the Utah area). He is so excited to get back to doing what he loves!

I have begun crocheting a second backpack... it might be awhile!
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