Laundry...

Ella has a new passion.... rolling around and unfolding/playing with our clean laundry. I usually try to fold laundry on our living room floor, Ella now rolls or makes her way over to the laundry to grab all of the folded laundry and tear it apart. She thinks its the funniest thing. So I went ahead and took some pictures of her the other night playing in our clean laundry that was once folded. Gone are the days of folding laundry on the floor and leaving it there for later... this now forces me to put it away!

First Time for Everything!

Dave sent me flowers at work this week! It's the first time I've ever gotten flowers at school! I was pretty excited and all of my students thought it was pretty cool! I may have made subtle hints about it for the past couple of years but honestly it took me by surprise! Just wanted to share the beautiful pictures with you!

Fun with Ella!

I thought I should post some pictures of the last week! I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things at school, we're in a pretty busy FFA time right now, so I've been staying after school several nights and working on things at home so I haven't had time to update our blog. Ella is doing great. She loves her babysitter so it makes me feel a little bit better about leaving her every morning. She's definitely becoming more mobile, still not crawling, but moving all over by scooting and rolling, I'm sure it won't be long. Oh, and Ella absolutely loves smiling for the camera... she's pretty happy most of the time but when the camera comes out she really flashes her big smile! So that's the update on Ella, I put together pictures from the last week, the last pictures are of Ella's Christmas gift that we finally put together today, she loves it!

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8 Months Old!

It's hard to believe that our baby girl is 8 months old today. Time really does fly when you're having fun! She is such a happy girl, giggling all the time, she entertains quite a bit! Her new thing now is growling and snorting... I know that doesn't come from me! She's still working on crawling, it hasn't happened yet but she gets her little butt in the air and tries! She can scoot backward but that's it! Oh and enjoy the bow in these pictures, she tried to pull it off an awful lot so we might be at the end of our bow stage, if you've ever seen Ella in public you know she always has one on! Also, as you can see from the pictures she still loves her orange veggies! I really do feed her the green ones too, but I guess I'd rather have an orange baby than a green one! Anyway, just wanted to post a couple new pictures of our little 8 month old!

Home Again!

So I'm really enjoying these snow days! At least it's allowing me to ease back into teaching! Ella continues to grow like crazy, she's keeping us on our toes! She will be eight months old on Friday, it's amazing how fast it's gone! I snapped some pictures of Ella today at mom and dad's house. I really enjoy her shirt, she specifically asked for that one this morning!!! (Or maybe I couldn't resist it!) So here are some updated pictures of Ella, I took a couple in her car seat the other day too!

Bath Time!

Ella just recently has been sitting up in the tub! I finally got a nice non-slip mat and have let her go to it! She loves playing during bath time. She also has decided that it was necessary to splash for a majority of the bathtime too, apparently she thinks I also need a bath. Anyway, she is way too much fun! I think she could stay in the tub all night if I would let her! It's amazing that we have all sorts of toys yet she always goes for the washcloth, rinse bottle and faucet! Anyway, here are some pictures from tonight's bath!

Home, Sweet Home!

Well, I've mentioned before that I love being a stay at home mom. Luckily this week I've had a chance to stay home with Ella a little bit more! I took Wednesday off and then school was cancelled today. Ella and I have had a chance to bond again... let's just say we're both have a pretty good time. Even though I have to make up these snow days I'm pretty excited that school is cancelled for tomorrow too! At least I'm easing back into the school scene! Ella is so much fun, she's such a happy girl! She also loves to roll all over the floor and check everything out! Also, she loves to eat, if you can't tell from the pictures her absolute favorites are any of the orange veggies! Here are the pictures that I took today!