Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Lyla is 5 months!


I'm a little late on this because she was 5 months old almost a week ago, but I have 4 kids...so sue me ;). She has become what I call, a "real baby" :( She now realizes she has feet (and is obsessed with eating her toes), she rolls all over the place, she is trying to scoot, she sits...she sat a week and a half before her 5 month birthday (so she would have plenty of time to practice so she could sit for her 5 month pictures....overachiever ;) She loves to blow bubbles, play peek-a-boo, take a bath and watch TV. She is so content just watching the big kids play, sitting in her bumbo seat (especially on the kitchen table while we are eating dinner), or hanging out and watching me read books to Ella. She is still a great sleeper, she wakes up once at night (during a 12 hour period) to nurse and takes two 2-3 hour naps during the day. I LOVE watching her little personality come out more and more each day, she is so fun and so sweet and such a joy in our lives :)

































































Sorry, once again, I couldn't narrow it down...

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

It's a Princess Party!

Ella decided to have a princess party, and started planning it several months ago (and when I say SHE started planning it, I really meant SHE). She wanted to make crowns, wear her Cinderella dress and eat lots of cake, goldfish, grapes and baby oranges. With the encouragement of Kristin (and a few other friends I have who were making their kid's birthday cakes this year) I decided to make Ella's cake. It turned out pretty good, it tasted great, and for my first cake decorating experience, I think it turned out really cute. I had several people ask me where I ordered it from. Ella LOVED it, and several times throughout the party I caught her just sitting by the cake looking at it and petting the horse on top :) She loved making the crowns and decorating the jewelry boxes. When it was time to open presents she was soooo cute. She got this surprise look on her face every time she opened a present. I'm not sure what her favorite is, she has played with it all a ton. I hope she realizes one day how very lucky she is to be so loved by so many people. When we were laying in bed at the end of the night she looked at me and said "mommy, it was my princess party today" I asked her if she had a good time, she said "it was my perfect day"....that girl melts my heart :)








The cake :) I had to use tweezers (clean ones ;) to place each little pearl...it took a while! You can't see on the picture, but it had edible glitter all over it too.












Some party favors





Ella "petting" her new horsey





"yum!"

































Making the crowns....I think it took until today for the glitter glue to dry!



Halle making her crown....she really just wanted stickers to put on it!





Putting her name on her jewelry box











She wasn't quite sure what to think about everyone singing happy birthday to her...at least she didn't hide under the table, which is what one of he boys did one year!


















I wish I would have gotten a pic of the balloons on her chair, I had a dozen balloons and a cinderella balloon and a number 3 balloon, she decided to put the Cinderella one, the number 3 one and a purple one on her chair. After I tied them on she said "there, that looks perfect"





And just a few of those adorable surprise faces....











When She opened this hungry hungry hippo game she said "oh mommy, this was just the game I neeeeeded!"











"Ella the Elephant" books....she LOVES them and I have read them dozens of times already. I want to get her the whole series!





A 3 year old princess :)





Silly girl





Mom, I will have to get some pics of her playing with the doll house, which by the way she LOVES!

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My Ella Boo is THREE!!!

I am having a hard time accepting this, but I guess I have no choice ;) On her actual birthday the boys were off school so Tripp took off work and we did everything Ella wanted to do. She woke up to some presents from us the boys and Lyla, we then ate lunch at McDonalds then went to Jungle Rapids and played in the kids gym. Dad came over in the evening and she opened her princess scooter from him, we then sang happy birthday to her and let her blow out the candles of a little cupcake I bought. Before bed I let her help me bake her birthday cake. We had a great day! HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY SWEET PRINCESS ELLA!

Ella was about to open the present the boys got her, they saw I had the camera and immediately all 3 posed for a picture, haha!


Can you tell she LOVED the lip gloss!


Her pillow pet :)


"look at me, I'm way up high, I can go by myself now!"














Yeah, then I saw the sign



She is ALMOST sitting :(



She was having some tummy time...


Then she just decided to relax


Ella helping grandaddy put together her princess scooter


She LOVES it!


She liked when we sang her the birthday song, actually she had been making me sing her the birthday song for a couple weeks before her birthday!





The best part about making a cake :)


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