Storytime with Daddy

Ella loves storytime! "In My Ocean" is one of her favorites. It was a gift from her Aunt Noelle and it has a cute dolphin finger puppet inside that she watches swim through the waves!

Ella's First Tooth

Ella's first tooth is coming in! It's her bottom left and it just broke the surface. It's kinda hard to see, but here's a pic. She's been a bit fussier at night but it doesn't seem to be bothering her too much.

And a few more pictures from this morning. :)

Exersaucer

Ella has been playing on her friend Sophia's exersaucer at work. She loves to play with all the little toys on it. Her favorite is the flower which has a mirror on it so she can see herself make faces :)

I am so excited that she is big enough to wear her ACL onesie! I bought it at a taping right after finding out we were pregnant. :)

Ella Says

Ella says "I love you"! Ok, not quite, but she's got the cadence down :)

Four Months!

Ella is four months today! The time is really flying by!

Here she is at 1 month and 4 months, she's growing so fast!

And here's a video of Ella and daddy talking today :)

Morning Walk

It was nice and a bit cooler than normal this morning so we took a walk around the neighborhood.

Facetime

Ella loves to facetime with family! Today she got to talk to her great-grandparents in Alabama. It's so cute to see her watching and "talking" to the screen :)

Ella's Playmat

My office-mate brought in her daughter's old playmat today and Ella loved it! She can look at the toys hanging over her head and kick a noisy toy by her feet.

Baby Hugs

Ella has started to hug things and it is so cute! Here she is hugging a little bunny blanket.

Fussy Face

Before having a baby I thought that babies would just fall asleep when they were tired... this is definitely not the case. There is a window where if I put Ella down for a nap she happily goes right to sleep, but if I miss that window then she gets overly tired and it can take awhile before she finally gets to sleep. Luckily, this doesn't happen too often, and in general she is a really good sleeper, she's consistently doing 8-10 hours at night and takes really good naps during the day. But this evening she did not want to go to sleep and it took an indoor stroller ride to put her down.

Fussy Faces

Finally asleep! :)

Ella Says

Ella was a little chatterbox at work today!

Ella Laughing

Tummy Time

Ella is getting so good at holding her head up!

Pretty soon she'll be crawling! :)

Brewing with Daddy

Today Ella helped Chad brew his all-grain hefeweizen.

Fourth of July

We had such a nice fourth of July, went to go see my parents and BBQ at the pool. Ella got to go for a dip and then took a nice nap!

Her gma Julie sent her a cute Fourth of July outfit so we did a little photo sesh by the pool :)