First Christmas Morning

While Ellie naps, we had to get these pictures and video up of Ellie's first Christmas morning. We think she had a good time, magical perhaps....but we'll let you be the judge...How perfect, our first Christmas with out little girl, a white Christmas.

What a merry, MERRY Christmas!

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Visiting Daddy

What a fun day! Little Ellie and I drove up to go meet Daddy for lunch and to say Merry Christmas to all his work friends...Ellie was an angel! It's about a thirty minute drive and she played with her sippy cup the whole way and then ate peas and cheese while Mommy and Daddy ate lunch at Ruby Tuesdays. Yum! After that, we came back to Daddy's office and toured the building visiting all the important people Daddy works with! Smiles and whispers for all until it was time to wave bye-bye! Time to come home and wrap a few last Christmas gifts...guess you'll have to wait and see what everyone is getting...We're giving some really good ones this year!!

Dada, Mama and Ellie's First Antibiotic

Friday marked a successful end to a wonderful first semester of school for Mommy and she can not wait to spend the next two weeks with her little Ellie! Daddy met up with them for Ellie's nine month appointment to get all her shots and finish up her H1N1 vaccination, but lo and behold once we got there, we found out our precious girl had an ear infection! She hadn't been too fussy, but had a rough night the night before and a 101 degree fever in the doctor's office! Thus, Ellie's first antibiotic. Poor baby! So, no shots for little Ellie...she probably planned the whole thing...but we did find out she weighs 22 1/2 pounds! 95th percentile! Oh my! Her height had leveled out to the 75th percentile, but we wonder if this was because she was scrunching up protesting the mobile hanging above her during the measuring...Other than that, Ellie' newest development is her "mom-ma-mom" sound! Awhile back we thought for sure she was saying "da-da" but then she got distracted with learning to crawl and trying to make funny whistling sounds, but the "ma-ma" sound has been VERY entertaining this week! In fact, it started on the way to the doctor, so I'm pretty sure this whole "no-shots" thing has been on Ellie's calendar for awhile... Other than that, we're just looking forward to Christmas, looking up recipes for the holidays, last minute Christmas shopping and wrapping and keeping up with our little crawler! Her second favorite entertainment is dive-bombing head first off of our laps towards the floor reaching for whatver tickles her fancy that moment...got to keep a close grip on this little adventure queen! And now for some much overdue picture updates...


Cousin Manda and Tyler stayed with us for a few days over Thanksgiving and brought Ellie a little gift from Manda's boutique...Ellie liked the wrapping best.

Pictures with Santa from Thanksgiving that I'm just now uploading...Ellie didn't think these pictures were the most flattering pictures she's ever taken...She was a little traumatized.

Our babysitter was sweet enough to send us this picture of Ellie when one day they thought her outfit reminded them of Christmas elves, so they added a Santa hat and booties!

Daddy likes to tease little Ellie by capturing her in a blanket and making her escape...Peek-a-boo...We see you!

Our little sunshine.

Finishing the last post...

For some reason, my computer was really slow for the last post and I got distracted, so these are the rest of the pictures I wanted to share!

Countdown to Christmas...

The lights are hung, the stockings are dangling and Ellie's got at least one gift under the tree...We can't wait!

Ellie and her "almost' crawling...

A Weekend at Home...

Before:

1/2 Way Through...we still have to paint the bottom half and install the light fixture...

My favorite part of it getting colder outside...decorating for Christmas!

We DO still have a stocking for Pip, just haven't unpacked that box yet...Notice Ellie's stocking (on the far right) is already a little heavy...

And the best feature of the weekend...the star of OUR show...

Fun with Ellie

I had some fun with Ellie tonight and captured some new moments on film...

This is Ellie's new fun trick, we're not sure if it's a laugh or a "sound effect", but it's mostly a "monkey see, monkey do" trick. One thing's for sure...we think it's pretty cute.

Ellie's still not crawling, but this week has made progress in that area...pulling?

Chris...the world traveler...

This past week, Chris got the opportunity to travel to Santiago, Chile for work...funny thing is, once he got out there, they didn't end up needing him to work, so it ended up being a six day vacation in the Andes mountains! Poor thing...

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Our little lamb...

Well, our little pumpkin's first Halloween came and went! First celebrations came with Grandma bringing her up to mommy's school to parade around in her costume. She left the house in her lamb costume but in protest, threw up lunch all over it. So...out came the pink poodle costume. Yes...mommy had two Halloween costumes for her. Saturday morning she started off pretty misreable and only wanted to lay with mommy because her incoming teeth hurt so bad. Mommy didn't mind... But, before the end of the weekend, she was tough enough to be able to visit the cider mill, meet second-cousin Aubree, and go trick-or-treating with mommy, daddy, Papa and Nana who came to celebrate with her!