Uh Oh!

Ella has a new word and she likes to say it ALL DAY LONG!

My Kid Thinks I'm Funny!

Bluebonnet Babies

It's Texas tradition to throw your kids in the median to snap a picture on the side of the highway as soon as the bluebonnets bloom.  After asking around, Whitney and I found a little safer spot at the JC Penney headquarters and took the girls for a little photo session. We were outnumbered, so we had an interesting time wrangling 4 kids (Bryce just sat in his carrier - good boy!) and trying to get some decent pictures. Ella kept doing a crazy scrunch face which resulted in about 100 outtakes, but here are some of my favorites.

These two did not want to take pictures, but they are still the cutest sissies ever!

This picture is so Zoe and might be my most favorite one of the day.  We had fun taking action shots of her running and twirling through the bluebonnets.  I love this kid!

 and then Ella was DONE!  

Ella's First Easter

We had a wonderful first Easter with the little bug! Holidays are so much more fun now that Ella can really enjoy the festivities and celebrate with everyone. We started off the weekend with an egg hunt with our MOPS group.  Ella and Reese are basically obsessed with each other, so they definitely had a good time. Reesie gave Ella her first bite of candy while I wasn't looking - I have a feeling Reese will be teaching Ella lots of things that she shouldn't.  Little toot!

We spent Sunday afternoon at Grammie and Pop's house.

Ella loved watching her bigger cousins play and even shared her toys with Isabella and Camden.  My mom hid puffs and yogurt melts for Ella and she insisted on opening them as soon as she found them.  Daddy was a very good hunting helper.

Everyone checking out their loot! Please don't judge my dad's love of yard art. Thankfully, you can't see his planet windmill or new chairs made out of wagon wheels on the side of the yard...

Ella crashed when we got home but popped up at 6:30am ready to play with her plastic eggs. I wonder how long she will carry those around for...I'm guessing at least two weeks!

Silly Goobers

I know you can't see anything in this video, but Ella's little giggle on it makes my heart explode.  She loves playing with Daddy in the morning before he goes to work.  Here they are being silly goobers.

ELLA GROWS!! 10 Months!!

Holy crap she is TEN months old!

Ella is now terrified of the sock monkey for some reason.  I finally gave up and took some pictures after our third try. I figure I am trying to capture her little personality at this age and this definitely shows one side of her. She has two moods - happy and pissed. She is usually smiling and gibbering with the cats or something, but as soon as you take away her washcloth in the bathtub or tell her to stop eating the iPad cord, mean baby comes out. Thankfully, all you have to do is distract her with something shiny or loud and happy baby comes back.

Teeth:
Still just the bottom two little bunny teeth.  She likes to use them to chomp on mommy's fingers.

Food:
She is a chunky monkey and pretty much eats whatever I give her.  She doesn't like purees anymore, but she will eat applesauce and yogurt.  Her favorites are chicken, peas and blueberries.  She would eat an entire pint of blueberries if I let her.  She does a silly scrunch face when she eats, so we go back and forth making funny faces.  She is hilarious.

Awesome Stuff She is Doing:
- Standing
- Pulling Up
- Kissing
- Scooting
- Sleeping completely through the night!!
- Saying Mama and Dada
- Waving at everyone and everything while yelling HI!
- Pointing at everything

E has finally decided give up her 5am bottle! She is a great sleeper and loves her naps. Bedtime is at 7:15pm and she usually sleeps until 7:15am.  Naps are typically at 9:30am and 2pm.  We try to plan our activities around them because she isn't very flexible and gets very grumpy when she is sleepy. She has a lovie from Cousin DeeDee that she snuggles on her face as soon as she lays down.  I know she is done with her nap when she throws lovie and her paci out of the crib.

She is all over the place and puts everything in her mouth including dust bunnies and kitty litter.  So gross - I have to vacuum all the time!  She still likes to ride in the Baby Bjorn and wave and point to everything in Target. She loves when people stop and talk to her, especially other little kids. We have been spending Wednesday afternoons with a bunch of little friends and Ella is loving watching the bigger babies do cool stuff.  I really think she is picking up new tricks from them.

Reese and Ella are BFFs and they are too cute together.  Reesie loves to give Ella hugs and kisses and help her play with the big girl toys.

Ella and Chloe have a love/hate relationship.  Chloe loves to hang out with Ella when is she calm or eating, but as soon as Ella wants to play with her, she starts slapping Ella.  It's pretty funny, but Ella gets her feelings hurt and starts crying.  

E's favorite toy is definitely her play table.  She loves banging on all of the buttons and turning the page of the book.  Here's a bunch of pics of the busy bee playing this month.

I already purchased Ella's first birthday gift, but I opened it today and let her play with it!  It makes me so sad that she will be turning one in less than two months, but I am loving all of her new tricks.  She is growing so fast and her little personality just cracks me up! Momma loves you baby girl!

Beef with Noodles Makes her Gag!

I forgot about this video that I had on my phone.  I love the faces she makes when she is eating something yucky.  She really doesn't like anything pureed anymore...