Thursday, March 17, 2011

7 months











ella turned seven months old on the 9th of this month, i took pictures on that very day, but of course i am late getting them out on the blog. anywho, she is such a fun baby, she grins her face off and then scrunches up her nose if she isn't making you smile with just her huge grin. she started to try and crawl at the end of 5months and started crawling like a champ at the end of 6months, now she wants to stand. so she pulls up on her crib, chews on the side rail and waits for me to get in there and get her out. she is still sleeping through the night which is AWESOME (definitely her coolest trick ever) and takes two naps a day. we are still trying to figure out the whole eating/bottle thing. she gets 4 bottles (7,11,3,7) and three meals (7,11,5) per day, but she doesn't take all of her bottles anymore, so i am thinking about dropping one. problem is i have NO idea which one to drop. any suggestions?


she is definitely cutting teeth now, i can see them, two of them on the bottom, the front ones. i have been waiting on these teeth for what seems like forever, not because i was worried, but because she has had all the signs for months and nothing...until now! hooray. she talks all the time and of course her first word is "dada" although i think it is more of a sound than an association; but, none the less, it is a word and we will take it...especially tyson :) okay so i think that is all the new stuff, it is now recorded and i am so grateful because ella does not have a baby book :) purchased one, still looks the very same as the day i bought it.

Friday, February 18, 2011

christmas...a little late






i realized that i never recorded anything about Christmas, so here we go. we enjoyed Christmas eve with tyson's family and then spent the night at my mama's. then after opening presents, eating breakfast and taking a morning nap we headed to reidsville for the annual family Christmas cookout, then we were off to our favorite place: the lake on the 26th. I think ella fully enjoyed her first christmas experience, here a few pictures to remember it by. (p.s. mama has not put up stockings since daddy died, so santa had to get a little creative)




getting geared up for christmas


she loves her daddy

ella was so helpful when we were putting up the lights


ella was getting ready for uncle eddie's good cookin'

she loved warming her feet by the fire

and cuddling with mimi

we always do a family pic in front of the tree in reidsville, normally we also get a group shot, but with so many people missing this year and having to head home early, we just did the individual family photos. tyson, unfortunately, was not able to make it to any of the out of town christmas festivities because he was studying for boards. booo! but not next year, because he passed and is a working man now :)

ella and her cousin emmy

ella and emmy, just chillin'

lilly's christmas present

haha, i just realized ella was still in her hugga bebe...oops! it was early

we had a great christmas 2010

Thursday, February 17, 2011

ella's photo shoot

thank you katherine for taking such beautiful pictures of my precious baby girl, i love the simplicity. you did such a good job of capturing her sweet innocence.