Ella at 7 Months

Ella has been working hard to present a brand new set of skills for y'all:

• Sitting
• Teething
• Babbling
• Eating Solid Foods
• Giggling
• Being Cute
• Grabbing Faces (and other things)
• Reading (eating) Books
• Waking Up Happy

Also, we've been happy and healthy as well, but we didn't take any pictures about that for you, sorry.

Milestones: Ella Teeth and Daddy's Work

The biggest news around this house is our baby and her new tooth (and another on the way!) We've been seeing a lot of this, and this lately. I tried to get a picture of the new tooth, but she likes to keep it a secret. Here is cute proof of the attempt.

Ella captured Daddy and Mommy this week. She uses cute bait for her traps!

We let Ella pick out her Sunday dress this week from the closet. (Mommy took her to where the dresses were hanging and said,"Pick one!" Then Ella reached out and grabbed one!) She does seem to have an affinity for red, so it was no surprise that she picked the big, frilly, red dress in the closet!

This week Daniel's work group met an exciting milestone as well. They call it "dev exit" (development phase exit). We still can't tell you what his secret project is, but we are this much closer to being able to tell you what it is!

Valentines Day

Ella wanted to share this video with everyone for Valentine's Day!

This year for Valentine's Day Daniel made us special cookies! (In case you weren't sure, I'm big E, and Ella is little e :P ) We had a pretty low key day other than that.

Ella has now tried lots of solid foods: Applesauce, Squash, Banana, Avocado and Pear. It has gone pretty well. She doesn't eat a lot at a time, but, "food is for fun until one!", so we don't stress.

We have also been working on our sitting up skills!

Giggle Fest

Lately Ella has started to make really happy faces when I come home from work (and then act all grumpy because she refuses to take an afternoon nap).  Sometimes we get lucky and she just starts to giggle and smile and bounce up and down.  It's really cute.

The other interesting thing that happened this last week is that Ella has started tasting solid foods (solid, as in actually a liquid but not milk ... which I always thought was a funny way to refer to it).  She seems to think the applesauce we got is sort of sour, but seems to like squash (I don't get it, since I'd definitely prefer applesauce any day).  So far she may have actually eaten a spoonful or two, but she likes to bang her full spoon against things and make a mess more than actually eating, which I gather is probably typical.

Baby Skirt

So Saturday Daniel said he would watch Ella for the morning if I wanted to get out for a couple of hours and do something. Now, as it happens, I didn't have a couple of hours of "out of the house" things to do, BUT I did want to go to the craft store to get some things to make Ella a fancy circle skirt. (I used the directions on this website) I might try a different pattern next time, but the website was really helpful, and I got a cute skirt out of it!

I got really lucky and found a pink butterfly sale fabric in the remnant bin. I got enough to make a couple of skirts, it was on sale, and it was super cute! I got home to a happy husband and happy baby so I decided to use my free time to whip out this little skirt! It turned out pretty well and Ella wore it to church on Sunday!

Ella at 6 Months

It's my half birthday!

I'm getting big!
I'm learning how to sit up on my own
I've learned how to play with toys!
I love my fascinator on my high chair.
I love anything cloth-like that I can stuff into my mouth.
I play disc golf with Daddy and Mommy.
I saw snow for the first time.
I have the cutest giggle in the world!
I learned to play the piano! (look at my finger position!)
I recognize my Daddy, and give him smiles when he walks through the door!

Snow and Smiles

This week wasn't too exciting, but Ella got her first look at real snow today!

Ella has been working hard trying to learn to get around and roll over onto her tummy. She has yet to be successful with the rolling over, but I see her like this alot. (Or This, Or this) Thought I haven't seen it, she must push off with her feet and scoot on her back. I find her in the most odd positions when I get her from her crib in the morning!

She does a lot of twisting a turning on the changing table. She gives cute faces to make all the wrestling worthwhile.

I'm excited because when Daddy comes home at night she has started to look and give him a big Ella smile!

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