A Bit Behind

We had a super busy weekend.  We started with the Chili Cookoff/Bingo night.  Hannah and Jay were big winners!!  The next night we hung out with one of Ben's bestest friends.  It was a great night with friends, and we had a blast.  On Sunday I got to babysit my puppy niece.  We're pretty sure that Hannah's got Fifth's Disease, and Ellie has been having issues with a partially blocked tear duct.  Needless to say, I'm exhausted and need another weekend!  Here is my 365 project for the past 10 days or so....

1/14 Ellie at Sophia's Birthday Party

1/15 She's starting to hold her own bottle...yay!!

1/16 Breakfast for dinner!

1/17 Hannah showing Ellie how to play with "the project"

1/18 Mr. Quackers (Ellie's version of blue bear/lovey)

1/19 Ellie and I always seem to fall asleep together at the end of the night

1/20 My VERY handsome husband

1/21 Daddy playing with his kiddos

1/22 My sweet niece Elle (Hannah and I made a bed for her in the laundry basket)



1/23 Playing with is favorite car



1/24 She head-butted the spoon

Ellie at 7 Months

Ellie turned 7 months old on Saturday!  We had a great day together including attending her friend Sophia's first birthday party.  We left the big kids at home, so it was just Mommy and Ellie.

It has been an interesting month for Ellie.  We went from sleeping through the night 100% of the time to sleeping through the night about 70% of the time.  We're not sure what is causing this not so fun phase, but it's not ears (I had them checked) and we are still toothless.  She loves to snuggle in Mommy and Daddy's bed, and when she falls back to sleep, Daddy moves her back to her crib. 

Although she's not sleeping the best, she's still the happiest baby!  She is sitting up without any help and she has started scooting around on the floor.  We limit her floor time because her big brother loves to lay on top of her when she's scooting around.  She has also started holding her bottle.  I'm sure the next month will bring lots of changes including teeth and crawling, so we are trying to enjoy every last second of this phase!

365 Project - Week 2

It's been a very busy week at our house.  We are SO excited to have a 3-day weekend to finally relax.  Ellie and I are off to a birthday party this afternoon for her sweet friend Sophia.  I'm excited to get some one on one time with my littlest girl.  Here are the pictures from this week...

1/8 My sweet super heroes

1/9 Hannah and Ben dress Ellie up

1/10 Yesterday wasn't enough, so today they gave her hair

1/11 Hannah teaching Ellie how to be a pirate

1/12 The sweet moments before bed when I feed Ellie

1/13 Hannah gets Ben a frisbee from the treasure box and he wears it as a hat!

The 365 Project

I was reading another blog and the person I was reading talked about the 365 project.  I thought it was a really cool idea, and I went to the website for all of about 3 minutes (one of the kids started causing problems at this point).  The main idea is to take a picture everyday for an entire year.  Being a perfectionist, I would have liked to run across this idea on 1/1/2012, but sadly it was 1/3/2012.  I haven't had the chance to read the website and sign up, but I thought I would do the 365 project on my blog because this is usually what we use to look back.  My goal is to post once a week with the week's pictures.  The week's pictures are just going to be the boring things that make our life special to us.  3 kids, working full time, being a wife, daughter, sister, and friend may derail this plan from time to time, but I'm going to at least try.  Here is week 1:

1/3/2012: Building block walls

1/4/2012

1/5/2012: Breakfast at 6:30am

1/6/2012: playing with Lewis' horse

1/7/2012: Sweet sisters