Monday, October 7, 2013

New Experiences

Ellie's experienced some new firsts these last few weeks. We had dinner up at the cabin a few weeks ago and it started snowing! We took her outside and she lit up seeing her first snow!
 
 
For the last week, Ellie has been sleeping in her own room, in her crib! It has been an adjustment for both of us, but I think she's starting to get the hang of it. We had to stop swaddling her too because she was starting to roll over in it and now she pretty much only sleeps on her belly. No matter how many times I put her back on her back, she's right back to her tummy within seconds. And not only is she sleeping that way, she sleeps with her face smashed flat to the mattress. The first few nights of this, I was a nervous wreck, checking on her constantly. Ellie's also been a little stinker and started waking up every hour or two during the night. She's been doing this for over a month now and I can't figure out what the deal is. Mama needs her sleep!
 
 
Ellie has had so much fun exploring the world! She loves to get out and go! I think she's going to have quite the adventourous personality. We went to Cabela's the other day and she was fascinated with all the animals! She was such a big girl and got to sit up in the cart for the first time and watch all the surroundings go by. I can't believe that she can already do this! Stop growing!!!
 

On Friday, Ellie tried real food for the first time! We were shocked with how well she did. She gobbled it right up like she had been eating for months! We were totally expecting her to spit it everywhere and only actually eat a few bites. There was hardly any mess at all since she gobbled down every bite. Here's the video of her first time eating.


 
 
 

 


Saturday, September 28, 2013

5 Months!!!

This girl is 5 months old now. She is doing all kinds of things now like rolling, army crawling, laughing, mimicking, and cooing! She is such a happy baby and smiles so much. She loves to go places and see new things, she's just such a busy baby. She continuously melts our hearts with each smile and laugh. We are so blessed to have such a happy healthy little gal.

Friday, September 27, 2013

Blowing Bubbles

Ryan's parents came to visit this week. Ellie had lots of fun playing with them and they were even lucky enough to babysit a few times while I was at work! Ellie hit a big milestone while they were here too. She started mimicking! Here's a video of the first time...
 
 
 
 

Monday, September 16, 2013

Welcome Fall!

Fall is finally here and I couldn't be happier. This is my absolute most favorite time of year. We were able to spend a little time together this weekend and we had lots of fun going to the Farmers Market and to Oktoberfest. Something bout this time of year that makes us want to get out do things! Maybe it's cause it's just not so dang hot anymore. Anyways, we had a lot of fun!





 
Ellie has been rolling and trying to army crawl like crazy! I had her on her blanket in the middle of the room and I walked away for not even a whole minute and I came back to find her like this! She was so entrigued by the curtains.
 


 
Ellie has also become fasinated with Recon and Ember. She really likes to watch them and she reaches out to pet them too. It's pretty cute.
 



Monday, September 9, 2013

St George and other Shenanagins

 
For the holiday weekend we got to get out of town and go with our cousins Maddi and Michon to their beautiful home in St. George (courtesy of my Aunt Mill and Uncle Chuck)! We had so much fun just chillin, playing in their new pool and eating delicious food.
 
We got Ellie this awesome floaty and she loved it! She pretty much just chilled in it lookin like a little baby mob boss.



 
Ellie and Ryan have been getting quite close when I'm gone on the weekends. I'm so glad that they can have such great bonding time...

Even when it results in me getting texts with pics like this.

Although Ryan is color blind, I did give him a lesson in matching when I got home.