More baby!

Ella is getting such a fun personality, we love listening her to "talk" all day. She will just babble in high pitched tones until you get right in front of her. As soon as she makes eye contact her tone changes and she makes lower more talking tones, it's SO funny it's like she knows!

She has so many aunties who have donated the CUTEST clothes to her ever growing walk in closet! She hates clothes so getting her ready is the worst part of the day, but worth every second! We have to wait a little longer to wear this bow it's as large as her whole head!

I've mentioned before her love for tummy time but this last week or so she has actually started lifting her body and kicking at the same time! She can lay that way for so long just babbling and reaching for rattles on her play mat.

Here's the rear view of her cute little legs!

We are having trouble guessing an eye color, sometimes they look really blue, at other times more brown, they are a really rich slate grey. People stop us and say what beautiful eyes she has.

Good Dog Grace!

Gracie and Ella were so cute together today! Ella was laying on the bed ready to get Jammies on when Grace came to lay by her (like she always does). Ella started to cry and Grace moved closer. (I grabbed the camera) Ella stopped crying and looked up at her, Grace licked her head and layed back down! I just laughed and had to take a photo of it in hopes of making our own rendition of "good dog Carl".

Happy New Years

We have to apologize for not updating sooner, it is just hard without a computer and camera cables! Elleah and I just arrived back in Texas today safe and sound, so here comes an update! We were scheduled to leave on the 28 but after a battle with insurance we had to stay for her 2 month check up. It was nice to have a few extra days with family but the time went far too quickly! Her Dr. appointment went great she is really healthy and the Dr. was so surprised at how advanced she is (kicking, holding her body up on her own while on her stomach, giggling, and cooing). She weighed in at 12.5 lbs! The little monkey is growing everyday! She was in the 50% for head size, the 83% for length she is now 24.5 inches long! and in the 74% for weight! The Dr. said for as long as she is her weight is just perfect and he would be worried if she was much smaller! She received 4 shots (2 in each thigh) and I don't know who it was more difficult for..lets just say we both cried! The only worry is a small hernia over her bellybutton, but the Dr. said it is fairly common and so small it should clear up on its own! That's it for the update. Here are some photos all with in the last week!

Taken about two hours ago, I know there are so many bath photos but you can see her in her true form! Look at those rolls! SO CUTIE!
Everyone has been commenting that she looks like a baby doll. I have to agree nothing real is this perfect!
On the plane ride home today she slept half the time and smiled the other half! She was such a delight! All the people next to us couldn't believe she didn't cry once even during take off and landing!
I put this into black and white to try to hide her mismatched outfit . . . but it didn't work

She loves tummy time. She is kicking and kicking, trying to scoot. Part of me doesn't want her to advance anymore!! I love this newborn phase, but it isn't lasting long!

Same outfit different look!

Two days old..vs 5 1/2 weeks old












She's growing so much! We put her in this outfit for what we think will be the last time, because
it's starting to get too tight! We just thought that you all would be excited to see how much she has grown in the last 5+ weeks! (note how tight the legs are! She has very cute chubby legs!)

Plus we thought that Cameron might like to see her "milk goatee" that she was sporting the other day!! Sorry the photo looks bad she was about to fall asleep

Ella LOVES baths!!

Rub-a-dub-dub, it's Ella in the TUB!! She is so cute in the morning when I give her a bath, we couldn't resist sharing this special moment with all of you!

One Month Old!

For Ella's 4th week we decided to introduce her to Christmas! Mike searched far and wide for the perfect tree. Ella got into her candy cane jammies just for the occasion. When we turned the lights on she just started and stared. It was so cute to see how mesmerized she was with the lights!
Ella the morning of the 4th week! Happy 1 month Ella!
The 9 foot tree Mike picked out just for her!
She was just in AWE looking at all the lights! We turned her around for this shot and this literally was the face she had on looking at the tree!

She's getting bigger and bigger

We had Elleah's picture taken so here are just a few of the many photos taken. I know they aren't the traditional style baby photo's but I love them so so much! She was so easy to photograph she would just lay there and look cute! We are using one of the other photos for an announcement/Christmas card!