Family, First Tooth and Funny Belly Laughs!

Summer continues to fly by with visits from Papa and Nana, meeting Great-Papa Taylor and Ellie loving to laugh! In fact, she's such a big girl that when Papa and Nana were leaving on Sunday, we found her first little tooth popping through on the bottom! So far she hasn't acted like it bothers her too much except at night she seems to be wanting a little Children's Tylenol to help her fall asleep. All in all....summer's been a blast!
Daddy decided Ellie wanted to wear her bib like a cape and fly around the house. Ellie's blowout...so bad Daddy had to wear a mask to change her. Enough drool to go around... Strategically placed bottle or holding it herself? You decide.
Three generations.

Four generations. Playing with mommy.

Ellie's First Three Months Slideshow

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Newest Updates

Post-June update...

Chris's accomplishments: power washing and staining the back deck,continuing to master landscaping around our yard, finishing a six-foot privacy fence, and all in all maintaining professional stellar husband and dad status.

Pippy's news: exploring her backyard for the first time completely unhibited by a leash, snuggling up with a pillow AND blanket for movie nights with the fam, and hanging out with her new cousin Molly, Andrea and Jonah's newest golden retriever addition to their family, and officially stealing Ellie's socks (this is her sign of affection, you're truly in with Pipsters if she steals your socks.)

Allison's discoveries: G.T. and the Halo Express sing alongs for Ellie (excellent scripture memory song set to stories...she grew up on the cassette tapes of these, but discvored them on cd!), devouring spinach, stawberry, blueberry, feta cheese and poppyseed dressing salad every day for lunch (yum! thanks to Jolene!), Love Dare (an excellent book), surfing www.etsy.com for completely unnecessary but extraordinarily darling accesseries for Ellie (seriously worth checking out! my husband has Miss Katie to thank for introducing me to this!), and a continued love for Jazzercise (mostly because she gets to take Ellie and have all the grandmas and other moms love on little Ellie-boo).

Ellie's developments: becoming quite a finger enthusiast, sucking and drooling all over her pointer and middle finger, improving and increasing the volume of her belches, chatting it up with her "buggy" and "poodle" on her car seat and to herself before getting up from bedtime and naps, maturing out of being swaddled completely, is almost in all six month clothing, lovig her silkie teddie blanket and growing fond of her rattle, starting to giggle and laugh on a regular basis, and becoming an expert tummy timer, pushing up to look around at her surroundings. In fact, when I placed her on her tummmy this morning to show daddy, she proceeded to roll right on over from her tummy to her back! A first! She did it three times this morning, after which, she promptly forgot how to do it. Either that or she is teasing mommy and daddy and won't do it for the camera...