What We've Been Up To Lately...

Ella loves watermelon. Well, to be fair, Ella pretty much loves all food. But she especially loves watermelon.

 

 Labor Day weekend, we went to Jen and Nick's wedding (which was beautiful). It was Ella's first. She did great at the wedding, but missed her afternoon nap. You can imagine how fun the evening was. She did have a blast dancing. This girl LOVES to dance.



Here she is dancing with Daddy.

 She has also developed a love for Daddy's truck. She climbs right into the driver's seat and asks for "eees" (keys). She then flips through the key chain until she finds the right one and sticks it directly into the ignition. Luckily, she can't quite get it turned yet.

Ella has also become quite the talker. A sampling of her extensive vocabulary:

Mommy

Daddy

Beebe (binky)

Beebe (baby)

Beebe ( puppy)

Oggie (doggy)

Cack (Quack/Duck)

Cacker (Cracker)

Sssss (Shhh)

Ky-et (Quiet)

Ni-Ni (Night, night)

Eee a ob (See ya, Bob - our neighbor)

Ooof (woof)

Uh-oh (Uh-oh)

Eece (Please)

Gay-Goo (Thank You)

No!

No!

No!

AAAAAAAAAA! (Screw you, Mom)

Meanwhile, Baby Hesemann, whose name so far remains Baby, is growing and kicking. Mostly kicking my bladder. I'm ok with that, though, as long as she's growing. I'm still planning for her to come exactly on her due date - Christmas Eve. Nathan thinks that is ridiculous. I informed him that Ella came the day before a big birthday (mine), so this baby likely will, too. Nathan thinks it's wrong for me to put my birthday in the same category as Jesus', but I reminded him that those are the two most important birthdays in my life.

Summer Time

Playing in the pool with Lizzie. These are two water babies for sure.

Nothin' like a good snuggle with Grandma to warm up after a swim.

With Hagen, the best dog in the world. I'm not sure who loves who more here.

Hangin' out at Granny and Papi's. Got a belly full of Catfish Kettle, and proud of it.

Granny's play house is the best place to spend a nice summer evening.

The Cutest Baby in the World

From time to time, Nathan asks if Ella is really as cute as we think, or if we're just biased. I'm quite sure that really is that cute. We can't go to Walmart without people stopping us and telling us how cute she is. Seriously, folks, we know.

Birthday Girl!

Even though it was 6 weeks ago, I still can't believe my baby girl is one!

Here's a sentimental look at how far she's come:

April 29, 2009

April 29, 2010

Ella continues to amaze us. She is so sweet and funny. She loves to laugh and to make other people laugh. She learns new things every day. She is such a wonderful, happy girl. We are so lucky to be her parents.

Catching Up

I know that it's been a long time since I updated the blog. Here is a random assortment of pictures from the past 5 months.

March 11, 2010

Here's what makes Ella happier than anything in the world - as many binkies as she can hold at once.

March 19, 2010

Just playin' in the toybox. Nathan says this is a cute one.

March 20, 2010

Just lookin' her bedroom window, enjoying the last big snow of the year.

April 14, 2010

Doing a little late-season Easter egg hunting around the house. Miss Ella is definitely into purses, bags, baskets... Anything she carry around and put stuff in.

April 14, 2010

Nothing special, I just love this picture. She looks so sweet.

Our Big Girl

Happily, things here have been quiet and wonderful. Ella now has 6 teeth. Number 7 is slowly making its way.  She is crawling now and loving every minute of it. Within about 1 day of crawling, she also started pulling up and cruising. It's only a matter of time until she's running laps around the kitchen. These are some pictures of our sweet little girl from a sunny afternoon.

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas. Nathan and I managed to both have 4 days off. We all went to Farmington to Grammeo's for Christmas Eve. As always, it was loud, hot, and crowded. We wouldn't miss it for the world. Ella, of course, looked beautiful in her red velvet dress and Santa hat, thanks to Gran. We then had Christmas morning with Gran and Papi and The Freeds. Ella got lots and lots of toys and had so much fun playing with the paper.

Ella and Max playing on the floor. Lots of poking each other and stealing each other's binkies.

The big kids, Ian and Ellie, enjoying their snacks.

The girls. They love each other. And who wouldn't love these sweet faces?

Looking through our stockings on Christmas morning.

My poor, sweet mother. She fell last week and ended up with 8 stitches and a head and neck CT. It was very traumatic. This is the aftermath.

Happy Freeds

Sweet boy Max.

Sweet baby girl.

More Halloween Pics

These pictures are all so similar, but I just couldn't deprive the world of this beautiful girl.