Ellie's first Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Ellie had a wonderful first Christmas! On Christmas eve we went to Tyler's family in Sullivan. Ellie had a great time playing with her cousins. She wasn't very interested in opening presents. I was surprised because she loves to tear paper. She did like her toys though! I'll share some of her favorites below. We got home a couple of hours past her bedtime; this made for a very tired Ellie. However, she did a good job at staying in a pleasant mood! Then it was time to go to bed and wait for Santa! On Christmas morning Ellie was happy to see the tree (she always is). We opened all her presents and played awhile. We then went to my grandma's house for lunch. We saw two of her cousins who are the same age as Ellie. They played well! Ellie just wants everyone to chase her :-) Next, we went to my parents' house for another Christmas celebration. There we opened more presents! Ellie was quite spoiled this Christmas :-) She was pretty tired by this point, but we held out long enough, and then it was home and to bed! For as busy as we were, Ellie did quite well. She played with all her toys and loves them all! Here are a few of her favorites:


Yogurt Melts. Santa left these in her stocking. Ellie LOVES yogurt melts!

(Sorry some of these are sideways :-) I'm too lazy to fix it! haha) This is Ellie's stroller! It is so cute! She wasn't even interested in her presents on Christmas morning. She just took off with this!

Fisher Price stage. She like this. She dances to the music, shakes the microphone, and looks at herself in the mirror.
I just like this picture. It captures the wonder of Christmas!
I hope you had a great one! We sure did!

Christmas Pictures!

Facebook is giving me problems. I can't get it to post Ellie's Christmas pictures, so here are a few!





Sorry this one is blurry. It says cookies and milk.

What a day!

Yesterday I said that I wanted to skip today. When I said it, I meant that I just wanted to get to Thanksgiving faster. However, I really should have skipped today. It was not one of my best. This morning I woke up with an icky eye. I decided to go to the dr so that I didn't spread anything infectious at Thanksgiving. I didn't want to take Ellie to the dr with me for fear that she would catch something at the drs office. So my mom came and watched Ellie for me. Well, I saw the dr and she said I have a little bit of pink eye. This is what I get for working with kids. :-) So, I went to Walgreen's to get my prescription filled. I was sitting at the stop light at third street. When the light turned green I waited a second and a car ran the red light! I was glad I didn't go right then, and I looked and proceeded across the highway. Someone else ran the red light and hit me!! It smushed the whole front end of my car. And the other driver didn't even stop! I had several witnesses wait with me to tell the police that the other driver just drove away. I can't believe that! Their car was pretty messed up. I am so thankful that Ellie wasn't with me at the time. She is always with me so it was amazing that she wasn't at that moment. I am also thankful that I didn't go a fraction of a second earlier. If I had, the car would have hit me in the drivers side door, and that wouldn't have been pretty. So, things were not as bad as they could have been. However, the worst part is that my insurance isn't going to pay anything! Since it was not my fault it would be the other guys insurance that would have to pay. Since we don't know who that it, there is no one to pay! So I am left with no car (it is totaled) and no money to buy a new one :-(
I am sure there are more blessings in this situation somewhere, I just haven't found them yet :-)
I AM GLAD TOMORROW IS THANKSGIVING!!

Christmas Pictures..Check!!

I survived Ellie's Christmas pictures today! :-) I tried to hard to get her to nap all day, but it was not successful. So, by the time her pictures came around at two, she was CRANKY!! As soon as I set her on the floor she started screaming! I knew we were going to have trouble then! She wouldn't let me get an inch away from her. She just clung to me and cried! However, after quite a bit of silliness, she began to warm up.She still wanted to be close to me, though. So in most of the pictures, she is holding my hand. However, despite her foul mood, we did manage to get some great pictures! The photographer did a good job of cropping out my hand. You would never know from her pictures that she wasn't very happy. In a few days I should get them emailed to me...stay tuned! (We just did pictures of Ellie today. We are doing our family pictures in front of our tree.)
I have some good pictures of Ellie on my camera, but I can't find my case that has to cord in it! I hope it turns up soon!!

Please Pray!!

I do not personally know this family, but I feel as if I do. Around 6 months ago, this woman posted on a message board that I read. She was around 20 weeks pregnant and doctors were telling her that her baby would not survive. The baby was not growing and they were told to expect the baby to die at any time. Despite the odds, a few weeks later Kayleigh was born weighing 1 lb 1 oz. She has faced many obstacles but she has done so much better than any of the doctors expected. Her life is truly a testament to the power of prayer. Tomorrow morning Kayleigh is going to face her biggest obstacle yet. She is having surgery to close a hole in her heart. Despite being more that 4 months old, Kayleigh still only weighs a little over four lbs. This is very dangerous surgery for a baby of this size and she has not responded well to anesthesia in the past. Please pray that God's will would be done in this situation and that his peace would be with her mommy and daddy. Check out their blog for updates and more information about this little miracle.
Kayleigh's story

Halloween

Ellie's first Halloween included playing with the insides of a pumpkin, visiting family on Thursday as a ballerina, and spending Friday night at Trunk or Treat as a flower. Here are some pictures:

Blessed

I'm not sure you want to watch this, but if you are feeling brave are are in a place you can shed a few tears, click the link below:

Warning: Get your tissues!

Aren't we blessed??? I can honestly say that I thank God for Ellie everyday, but in the moments when there is a little too much crying, and not quite enough sleeping, it is hard to enjoy myself. I can't imagine what these parents would give for the chance to stay up all night, every night with their sweet Eliot. I don't know why God chose to give us an incredible, perfectly healthy, AMAZING little girl who gives me tremendous joy everyday. I don't deserve these lavish blessings, but I sure am grateful. My heart just overflows with gratitude every time I look at her. THANK YOU SO MUCH, GOD, FOR THIS AMAZING GIFT!!!

Pumpkins!

Today I planned for us to go to a pumpkin patch. However, I didn't really want to go to Pumpkin Works just to get a pumpkin, and I didn't really know where else to go. Plus, Ellie was really fussy after her nap this afternoon so I didn't want to get her back out. So, I just ended up going to Wal-mart to get some pumpkins. If you wait until the week before Halloween to get pumpkins, there is not such a large selection. There were only three left, two of which didn't stand up on their ends. So I got the one that did stand up and I got a white pumpkin! I just got Ellie a bag of little pumpkins.
I have been trying for weeks to get a good fall picture. We tried this afternoon to get some outside. I think we got a few decent ones. Next, we carved our pumpkins. I put Ellie in her highchair and gave her the insides (minus the seeds) to play with. She really enjoyed it! She played there the whole time we were carving. I have pictures I will have to post later because I have not put them on the computer yet. Here are some of the pictures we took today. I played with them on a new program:

Nashville trip

This weekend I thought it would be fun to take Ellie on a little trip. We went to Nashville, IN and Brown County State Park. Although we had a good time, things did not quite go as planned. My main goal for this trip was to get a good fall picture of Ellie so that we could make so wallets for family. So I got Ellie dressed in her cute fall outfit and we set out. Our first stop was to Nashville for a little browsing, dinner, and hopefully a good photo op. Here is where things began to go awry. First of all, don't go to Brown county in the fall. It is beautiful, yes. But everyone and their brother has the same idea. There were sooo many people! So much traffic and people packed onto the sidewalks. However, we forged on. For some reason, I didn't think about the logistics of getting a baby in a stroller around in crowds and in and out of little shops. This was just not doable. So Tyler stayed with Ellie while I went in and out of a couple of shops. About this time we decided that dinner here was out of the question. We decided to go to a candy shop--(we needed some chocolate), look for a spot for a picture and head to the park. While Tyler was in the candy shop I decided to hold Ellie for awhile. I picked her up and I was surprised when my hand felt a soaking wet bootie! Now, we have not had a diaper leak and many months, so this was very unexpected. Not only did she leak through her diaper, but her onesie, pants, and stroller were all wet! To make matters worse, I didn't have anymore pants! I always bring extra clothes. But for some reason, I didn't that day! I had shorts, but it was much too cold for shorts. So, I changed her and just wrapped her pantless self in a blanket and we headed for the car! Needless to say, our perfect fall picture in her cute outfit just wasn't happening! We decided to go on to the park and just look around a bit. We went to a couple lookouts, but because Ellie was without pants, and we really needed gas...our trip was cut short. However, after a trip to Target for some new pants, we had a pleasant dinner at Red Lobster. Here are some pictures from our eventful trip:

Sleep Update and some fun things!

I have caved :-( Ellie is crying herself to sleep right now. A couple of weeks ago, things were really starting to improve! We had a good routine down. I have been working for a couple of hours in the daytime and they let me bring Ellie with me. This has helped our routine and she was getting two regular naps. I thought things were going great! Then, she went back to her old no napping self. Tonight she just wouldn't settle. So she is crying. I hate it but I don't know what else to do. I guess I am just going to take this day by day and do whatever works.
In other news....Saturday night I got a much needed girl's night out! I went to Indianapolis to celebrate my friend Kelli's birthday. We ate at PF Chang's. It was delicious! I had never been there before but I intend to go back! I had lettuce wraps and crispy honey chicken. Mmmm...it was so good :-) It was really nice to get to see some old, dear friends. I really enjoyed it. Poor Tyler had a rough time with Ellie. I left at 5 so that he would only have a couple of hours and then he would just put her to bed. Well, she screamed when I left, which was hard, and I guess she didn't improve much. He got her to bed and then he sent me a message at 11 that she had been up for an hour and wouldn't go back to sleep. So, I headed home. Poor Tyler.
This weekend we finally got a video camera! I have been so sad that we were missing all these moments. We borrowed a camera for Ellie's birth, so we have footage of her right after she was born. But we have missed the rest of her first eight months! So before we miss anything else we went ahead and got one. We got a hard drive camcorder so as soon as I get something good recorded, I can post a video!

Funny Faces

Lately, Ellie has been making some funny faces! There are hard to catch on camera, but here are a few examples.




I just like this one because you can really see her teeth.

Bodies

Yesterday Ellie and I went up to Indy, picked up Heather and went to see the Bodies exhibit. If you don't know what this is, it is a traveling exhibit that shows preserved human bodies and organs. It was in Tampa when we lived there and I have always regretted that we didn't go to it. So I am glad I got the chance again. It might sound kind of gross, but it was amazing! I got to see brains and spinal columns, hearts, lungs, everything! When we got there, we found out that they didn't allow strollers inside so I had to carry Ellie the whole time. However, I understood when I went in the reason they don't allow strollers. They have whole bodies standing up (minus the skins and other parts so that you could see all the muscles and organs) without glass around them! A bump by a stroller would have been disastrous. I was so afraid the whole time that Ellie was going to reach out and rip an arm off! That would have been mortifying!
The most amazing parts:
1. The brain and spinal column-Your spine is really broad at the base and there are long nerves that run out everywhere! The brain in encased in a tough shell that is covered in blood vessels!
2. Blood vessels- There was one part where they showed a body with only blood vessels. You would not believe how many there are!
3. Lungs- Smokers lungs are disgusting!!
4. Appendix- It looks like a little worm hanging off the intestine!
5. Babies- Part of the exhibit showed some babies that had been miscarried at different stages. While it was sad to see these babies that didn't make it, it was amazing! At 9 weeks you could see all the fingers and toes and the little bones. The face looked just like a miniature baby. It was also amazing how much the babies grew in just a couple of weeks. At every stage they were bigger than I expected. I just don't see how anyone can say an abortion at any stage isn't murder.
And you wouldn't believe how small a uterus is! I can't believe that it can stretch so far.
There are more amazing things, but those are the highlights. There were a few negatives. It was kind of weird if I thought about how those were real people. So I tried to keep a scientific mindset. And...I'm not sure how I feel about eating meat now... But all in all it was a great experience. God truly made us amazing.

The sleep saga continues

I am DONE with crying. Done, done done! I have decided that cry it out does not work for Ellie. It has been about a week or so of serious letting her cry with no improvement. We are still crying for 45 min to over an hour a night. I decided last night that I cannot take anymore. She is getting no better and her naps are getting worse. She doesn't sleep for anymore than 10 minutes at a time for a total of about 30 min a day. She should be getting 3-4 hours of daytime sleep for her age! So, we are trying something new. I am trying to follow The No Cry Sleep Solution. For the first few nights you are just supposed to keep a log of night wakings. I think this is just so that you can notice subtle improvements. You are supposed to right down quite a few things every time you wake up. Well, since I am not coherent enough in the night to even notice what time it is most nights, I just tried to keep count of how many times she woke up last night. I think it was around 5. I lost count a few times :-) So, my new plan is to get her to take a nap no matter what it takes. This morning I pushed her back and forth in her stroller until she fell asleep. Whenever she started to wake up (sometimes about every 2 min) I would push the stroller again. We did this until we got to an hour. Hopefully, once she gets used to napping at certain times and isn't so overtired I can transition her into her bed. As for nighttime, I am going to feed her to sleep and put her in her bed as many times as it takes (it may take hours the way this has been going! She wakes up before her back hits the bed) Once she gets used to that I will gradually put her down more and more awake. This is not a quick fix. It is going to take lots of time and TONS of patience. Please pray that I can make it :-)

Oh, the woes of sleep...

So...Ellie has some serious sleep issues. I don't even care so much about the rough bedtimes right now; I just need her to nap. She will not nap! This morning she finally feel asleep after an hour of work and her nap lasted a whopping 10 minutes. In the afternoon she took about a 30 minute nap in the car. That was it! And most of my day was spent trying to get her to nap. The other day I was so desperate for her to nap that I drove around until she fell asleep and then sat in the mall parking lot for an hour and a half while she slept. Gas is too expensive for this! :-) It's not that I just want the free time a nap would provide (although I wouldn't mind it) it's that she has been progressively more grumpy and fussy each day because she is so tired.
My long awaited book arrived this week. So far what I have gotten from it is that Ellie is sleep deprived and that is bad for her. (If I didn't already know this I wouldn't have ordered a book!) It is all mostly about timing; that if they get overtired that won't sleep well. This is a problem since she is overtired...how do I get her over this so we can get into a good pattern?? Any suggestions for my strong-willed child???

Growing up too fast!

So, about a week or so ago I went to get Ellie out of her crib and this is what I found:
I just feel like it is too early for her to be pulling up! Now she does it all the time!! Seven months ago she was in my belly...now she is quickly turning into a toddler! Babies just don't last long.
One thing that is not progressing, however, is sleep! I was so blessed to have a good sleeper in the beginning. Now I think I am paying for it. I have ordered a book that I pray will help! It can't get here soon enough!
Just something I was wondering...why do they make baby toys all colorful and fake looking? It has been my experience that babies would much rather have something that looks like the real thing. Ellie can be surrounded by toys and she goes for the one thing she shouldn't have, like the remote, cell phone, or computer. She has a toy cell phone, but it is not nearly as exciting as mine! So, why don't they make toys look like the real thing?

Many new things!!

The past couple of weeks Ellie has changed dramatically! First she stated blowing raspberries. This is soo cute...except when she has food in her mouth :-) She stated scooting around on her belly a couple of weeks ago. Now she is crawling on her hands and knees! I can't believe how fast she is changing. Yesterday, she was trying to pull herself up to standing. She is going to be walking before I know it!!
We went to the zoo today! Ellie is a scardey-baby :-) We went to the dolphin show and she liked them until she got splashed. Then she was scared of everything! Even the fish. We took her to the gift shop and showed her some stuffed animals. She was afraid of those too! I guess we might have been a little young for the zoo :-)

Another year older...

Yesterday was my birthday! We had a very good day. I had to go to the dr in the morning and hopefully that is the last time I am there in a very long time! When Tyler got home from work we went to my parents' house. My mom cooked me all my favorites and we had a good time visiting with my mom, dad, sister, and her new stepsons. I got something for my birthday that I have been wanting for a long time...a Wii fit! It is very cool! It tells you your weight and BMI and makes a graph of your progress. There are a lot of games that really do give you a workout! There is hula hooping, running, yoga, and strength training exercises. Hopefully, this gives me some motivation to loose some weight. I think about 10 more lbs is all I need. I'll keep you posted on my progress!

Six month pictures!

Here are a few of Ellie's 6 month pictures:

Time for the big girl bed!

So, since Ellie has been born she has been sleeping in a pack and play in our room. Since she is 6 months old (and over the weight limit) I knew we needed to make the transition to the crib soon. I have just been putting it off because she doesn't sleep well and I still like having her close. Well, last night I found that I can put it off no more. She has been sleeping so terribly that I decided to let her cry a bit and try to learn to put herself to sleep. Well, it was not fun and at one point I went in to her and she has up in her knees holding on to the side of the pack and play! I didn't know she could pull up to her knees! She could have fallen out! So, today we made the transition! I went and bought a breathable crib bumper because I was afraid she would plant her face in her other one and suffocate. So tonight I turned on a white noise machine and put her in her bed...there was a lot of crying. I finally gave in and just nursed her to sleep. I put her down and she started crying so I just stayed and patted her until she fell asleep. So I guess she didn't out herself to sleep, but it was much less traumatic for both of us. Hopefully she likes her new bed and stays there all night! :-)
This weekend my sister got married! It is hard to believe but she looked she happy and beautiful! Here are some pictures from her big day.

Four years ago....

Tomorrow is our four year anniversary! In one way I can't believe it has been 4 years; then again it feels like we have been together forever. So much has happened over the last 4 years! I think that if you would have told me on my wedding day all that we would go through in the first years of our marriage, I wouldn't have believed you. We have been through so much! I think we are different people than when we were first married, but I would like to think that we have grown closer in the process. Here are the big events of the beginning of our marriage...the good and the not so good :-)

1. Graduating College- We got married right before our last year of school. I prayed and stressed a lot about whether we should get married then or wait until we graduated. Although it was a tough and busy year, I don't regret that we didn't wait. We were ready. We have some great memories from that year, although it was kind of a blur! :-)

2. My mom's breast cancer- About 6 months after we were married my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. This was quite traumatic for me. It made me realize that bad things don't just happen to other people, they can happen to my family too. She went through chemo and a mastectomy, through all of which Tyler was very supportive of me. I am happy to report that she is now cancer free :-)

3. Moving to Florida...and coming back :-)- This is another thing that I am very glad we did. We loved living in Florida, and hope to again someday. It was a good time to establish our independence and strike out on our own. We proved to ourselves that we could do it. We also gained great experience in the classroom that we wouldn't have gotten otherwise. This was a very tough year for Tyler with his class...I do wish that he would have had a better experience. We came back for many reasons...we are glad to be around our families. They are resources that can't be replaced!

4. My health issues- Up until about 2 years ago I would have considered myself a very healthy person. I had never been in the hospital, never had anything wrong with me at all. However, I told Tyler the other day that my 20's haven't been very good to me; I hope subsequent decades are much healthier. :-) It all started when we were in Florida and I found out that I have MS. The whole onset and diagnosis is a story in itself, but Tyler really established himself as my caretaker and let me know that we could get through anything. Although things are going well now, MS is very scary because you can be completely fine one day and very much not the next. I stopped taking my medicine when I got pregnant with Ellie, and occasional symptoms remind me that I really need to get back on it soon.
As for what has been going on lately...I don't know what is up! :-) Since Ellie has been born I have had 2 completely unrelated surgeries. Hopefully, my body is on the mend now and there will be no more setbacks.

5. Ellie's birth- What a life changing experience! Nothing could have prepared me for how much life would change or how much I would love this little person. We are no longer just a couple, but a family. We have a little girl who is a little bit of each of us and has bound us together forever. What an amazing journey this has been!

So, I think those are the major events. I can't believe how much has happened. I can't imagine what the next 4 years will hold for us. One thing hat has been proven to us over and over that I know will remain true...God will always take care of us. He has gotten us through quite a few messes so perfectly, I truly believe that He will always get us through.

Surprised by sadness

So...I didn't expect to feel this way. I realized today that this will be the first school year I have not started school since before I was in Kindergarten. Don't get me wrong; I am so glad I get to stay home with my Ellie, but part of me longs to be in the classroom. I became a teacher because I love it. I love the kids, the books, even the schools supplies :-) (Don't let me forget that there are some things I don't love as well) I feel like I learned a lot in my first few years teaching and working in schools. I am afraid I will loose all these skills and have to start back at square one. I just need to keep reminding myself that for everything there is a season, and this is my season to be a mommy. The teacher season will return.
Another thing on my mind is that I have been longing for more church. I have always been so involved in church. I don't think I have ever been less involved that I am now. Since Ellie has been born, I haven't quite found my fit. I always have her with me because of Tyler's work schedule and I am always worried about her being a distraction to other people if I bring her with me. So, my goal is to worry less and do more. I am tired of sitting on the bench of the kingdom, time to get in the game :-)

Sleep and a great weekend!

Last night was the first night in a long time that Ellie slept all night! Yeah! It was much needed :-) I had plans to rest and watch a TV show after Ellie went to bed, but I fell asleep with her at 8:30! The best part is, she slept until 7 this morning! It was wonderful! She has had two teeth pop through in the past week....I am hoping this is the source of the sleep problems.
I had a wonderful Saturday this past weekend! Tyler and I had a much needed day together. Since Ellie has been born, we have kind of been like two ships passing in the night. We are busy with her and he has been working a lot. One of the sacrifices we are making so that I can stay home is that he has to work another job for now. So some days he leaves at 8am and doesn't get home until midnight. So, needless to say, we haven't talked much lately. Our anniversary is Thursday, so we decided to have a day together. We went to Edinburg and went shopping at the outlet mall! I was in need of new clothes. I watched many episodes of What Not To Wear in preparation. I think I did ok. I ended up with 3 new shirts and some jeans. It will get me through for awhile :-) Next, we went to Target because I love Target! Last, we went to our favorite restaurant, Carrabas! It was sooo good! It was a great day to reconnect with my husband and remember why I love him. We'll have to do it more often!

I have moved!

So....I decided that I didn't like the format of my shutterfly page (mainly that I couldn't put pictures in my posts), so I have moved to Blogspot! I copied all my old posts below so that I am all in one place :-) I have never been much of a journaler, and I wasn't sure that anyone would want to read about the happenings of my life and random things that cross my brain. However, I have found that it is therapeutic! :-) It is good to have a place to sort your thoughts even of no one else reads it. And I realized that I read other people's blogs on a regular basis. I guess it makes me feel like I know people better. So, here I am! I have some things to write about later...but for now, I will leave you with a picture from this weekend...

What a crazy week!
The past week or so has been sooo crazy and has gotten us off of out routine! Tuesday morning I had to get up at 4am to go to the hospital. I had surgery to remove a 5lb cyst from my belly! I had to stay in the hospital for a few days, so poor Ellie is so off. Tyler was with her while I was in the hospital, but he brought her back and forth to the hospital so that I could see her, but still try and get her regular naps in. Since I have been home I haven't been able to take care of her still. I have an incision a little bit bigger than my c-section scar, so I am not able to lift Ellie right now. So, since Tyler went back to work, I have had either my mom or sister here to help me. Poor Ellie is so confused. At bedtime she just stares at whoever else is here like, "what are you doing here?" She has just been staying up later and later and trying not to sleep. Hopefully I will be feeling better soon and we can get back on our routine. I am so thankful for my family and for Tyler! He has done everything; going to work, taking care of me and, doing everything for Ellie. What a blessed woman I am!

First trip to the fair!
Yesterday Ellie took her first trip to the fair! She laughs every time she sees our cat, Pippin, and my sister's dog, Zoe, so I figured that she would like to see the animals. She wasn't very interested in the rabbits. But she watched a pig for a long time. I held her right up to a horse, but I don't think she realized it was alive; she was more interested in the streamers hanging from the stable. We also looked at goats, sheep, and cows. We looked at the 4-H exhibits, but she was most interested in chewing on her stroller seatbelt. However, I think she had a good time! She got to experience all the new sights (and smells!). The best part was that I got to eat some fair food! Yum yum! :-)
I have a cute picture of her in her hat and cool sunglasses that I will post when I get it uploaded.

We have a roller!

Finally! Just days shy of 5 months, Ellie can roll both ways! She has been rolling from her belly to her back for quite some time now, but she just hasn't been able to get over her arm to roll the other way. I think she has been able to do it for a while, she just hasn't tried too hard because she doesn't like to be on her belly. But, she finally did it tonight! With her new found rolling, she also started to scoot! However, she is scooting backwards, so we'll have to work on that :-) I am not ready for my little girl to be growing up so fast!
We had much success tonight in bedtime! We have been having a lot of trouble because Ellie fights sleep so badly! She doesn't ever want to sleep, but she will only when nursing. But, it is 8:30 and she is sleeping!! Yeah!!! Now, we just hope she stays asleep....

Filling you in up to now

Hello everyone! Since everyone else in the world has a blog, I guess we need one too! :-) In case we haven't spoken awhile, here is what has happened in the last 5 months:
Tyler and I were overjoyed to welcome our little girl, Elliana Grace, into the world on February 9th. She was born at 8:15 pm and weighed 8 lbs 5 oz. She is the best thing that ever happened to us! It is hard to describe how you feel about your baby...or how much life changes! All I can say is that I am totally amazed by the whole thing and I am completely enamored with my little girl.
Ellie is now almost 5 months old...which I cannot believe! Her smiles and laughter are the highlight of my days. She is now eating some solid food and starting to sit on her own! Time goes so fast! I am trying to cherish every moment!
Thank you for reading...hopefully I will be good at updating and this will be a good chronicle of our life with Ellie.
Blessings on each of you!