It's been way too long....

So much has happened since my last post! The summer was so busy I never got a chance to post anything new. We took so many pictures, but I'll try to get some of them on here.

Here's a slideshow of Ellie's birthday celebration at Mimi and PaPa's house before they moved to NJ (we miss you!!!)





Click below to watch a few short videos:

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Ellie's First Art Project!

Ellie made her first cards for Mother's day!
I drew a black body in the center of a piece of cardstock, then I folded half the paper back and taped it to her highchair. I put two dollops of tempera paint on the paper and let her smear it around to make the butterfly wings.

I don't know why, but I didn't take any pictures of the finished projects! I'll try to track them down and get a picture. They were so cute and she had a blast making a mess.
I just hope she didn't eat too much paint!

Miscellaneous

Here are some random pictures from the last few months:

My blow-dryer is one of Ellie's favorite things to chew on....a cord and a huge tag! What could be better?!?!


This was Ellie's first bath without her bath ring. She had figured out how to get out of it, so I decided it was pretty useless now.






We don't usually let her crawl on the kitchen floor, so she's very excited when she gets to be in there!

Easter

on Easter Sunday, we went to Mimi and PaPa's house for lunch after church.

We hid eggs for Caitlyn to find, and in the evening a friend of Melissa's came over with her 11 month old. The Babies had fun shaking the eggs that had candy in them.


Ellie and Mackenzie


Caitlyn hunting for eggs


Found one!


Mimi, Ellie, PaPa and Caitlyn


Ellie, PaPa and Caitlyn




Ellie and PaPa

Texoma

A while back, we went to Lake Texoma for the weekend. My grandfather had a suite out there and my mom and brothers were there.

We went hiking around a little bit. I have no idea what lake that is!



Daddy, Mama, and Ellie

Grammie and Ellie

Ellie eating a rock....of course

Ellie STILL eating a rock...(should we have taken that away from her?) =)

Ellie

Mama and Ellie

Mama and Ellie

Daddy and Ellie

Ben

Our family

bathtime!

Hi!

Pippy Longstocking!

There's a new baby at the Ruffino's:

Pippy Longstocking!

We took Ellie out to see her - she couldn't get enough!
She loves all things soft and fuzzy and this was no exception!
Grammie was holding her and when ever Pippy moved too far away Ellie started whining!
I guess horse-crazy starts young!

She's Crawling!!!

It's old news now, but on March 19th - Ellie started crawling!!! She'd been scooting pretty well and then all of a sudden she just started! I never even noticed her trying! She was playing with Grammie's keys - one of her favorite toys!

These videos were taken that night, right when I noticed. Looking at them now makes me laugh because you can't even really tell she's crawling. We were so proud ;)

Nap Time

Caitlyn and Ellie fell asleep in the car together. Caitlyn was using Ellie's carseat as a pillow. Very sweet!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Today she's my little leprechaun!

I made Ellie a new bow for the occasion - even though we're not doing anything special!

Random Pictures

Here are some pictures from the last week:


This is not where I left her! She was chasing her pacifier and made it all the way under her swing!

Grammie bought Ellie some teething biscuits and she loves them!

They make such a huge mess!

If you take it away from her beware! She screams!!

Naptime. She loves her fuzzy friends! This sweet lamb is from Great-Grandma Doris