Beautiful

It's been sooooo nice here lately. Ellie and I have been spending lots of time at the park. When we aren't at the park I am pulling her around in her wagon here on the property :-). She also loves to just crawl around on the grass and play with the dogs. Well I don't know if you would call it crawling. The grass is coarse and kinda hurts so she uses just her hands and feet. She doesn't let her legs touch the ground. It is so funny and cute to see. She has also become interested in walking. She has taken quite a few steps so I think walking is in our very near future- Yipee!!!!

Oh, and the other thing she still loves to do is stand in her rocking chair and go back and forth. She is quite the little dare devil, constantly climbing and lunging off of things, LOL.

Her eighth tooth is coming in, poor thing has had a runny nose and all the other stuff for about a week now. I can finally see the white coming through so hopefully she will be out of pain soon. She's been pretty good with the exception of a couple of nights. One night she woke up THREE times; it was like having a new born all over again.....

I took Ellie to the McWane center last week. I haven't been in about ten years but she has already been once. Grandmomma and Grandaddy took her back in October so this was her second trip. Lucky girl. There is so much to do there.

I just wanted to do a quick update. I'll try to load some new pictures to "my photos" but sometimes it is just so slow!!!

March

Wow, it's already March. Ellie will be a year old in one short month. She has grown so much and I have enjoyed every minute of her (even when I am exhausted and short on patience :0). She is such a sweet and funny little girl. She loves to give Stephen and me hugs and she loves playing games. Stephen will chase her around the house and she just giggles away. It is the sweetest thing to watch them play together. I taught her how to roll the ball so we do that quite a bit. She also has this cheap little baby doll that she absolutely loves and carries it everywhere; in the grocery store, church, the gym, her HIGHCHAIR, crib, she even tries to take her in the bath tub :). She has not started walking by herself yet. She will walk if you hold both her hands and she creeps along the furniture but nothing by herself. I really want her to walk before her first birthday but if she doesn't I'll survive. I'm just looking forward to holding her hand while she walks as opposed to carrying her everywhere. Although, I must say I sure do get some good lovins when I carry her.

Ellie also loves talking to her grandmomma on the web cam. She always reaches for the screen and touches moms face. We try to web cam every day so that Ellie can see her and vis versa. I think it helps a lot with her not forgetting her grandmomma. I have several pictures of mom and Ellie in Ellie's room and she gets really excited and starts smiling and babbling when she sees them. She is definitely grandmomma's girl too :)

We've been doing lots of stuff with our playgroup these past couple of months and I really enjoy it. I also joined a stroller fit group so that I can get a little exercise while Ellie enjoys the outdoors. I just started last week and we went to the Botanical Gardens. It was nice. Ellie held hands with her new friend, it was so cute!!

Other than playing we still go to the gym several times a week and to the church two or three times per week. Ellie has gotten really good about me dropping her off in the nursery at both places. She barely makes a peep anymore. She'll stick her lip out and look like she's going to cry but she normally pulls herself together and doesn't actually shed any tears, which makes it so much easier on me.

Oh, and Ellie went thorough this phase where she didn't want to use her hands to pick stuff up so she would just use her mouth instead. It was soo funny!!

Well, I guess I'll go. Ellie fell asleep on the floor right next to me so I'm having to be VERY quiet.