11 months



(little preview of this gals birthday pics! you know, bows don't go on your head they go around your neck, silly:)



elleanor had her 11 month birthday this past sunday.
can't believe in less than 1 month we will be throwing her big ONE year birthday party!
no doctor's visit this month so no fun stats to report but still tons of new new fun!
ellie is such a smiley little baby, she smiles so big and her big blue eyes just light up!
she sings herself to sleep when i rock her, and then at times screams herself to sleep when I don't (but that only lasts maybe 2 minutes then she's out).
she is such a talker! very vocal and has such a little outgoing personality! (she must get this from her daddy because her sissy and momma are pretty shy).
still in size 3 diapers and 12 month clothes, we rarely put shoes on this gal but she is growing out of her size 2's and now into 3's.
pulling up and more pulling up, she can stand unassisted for a few seconds but no steps on her own yet, she can cruise around the furniture and walk behind her push toys pretty steadily.
no more puree's in this house! this gal is full on finger foods! i absolutely love it because it is so much easier to be able to feed the girls about the same foods!
so that's about it for the tidbits but here are a few photos from this past month!

she's loving the coupe these days

yummy! hamburger, watermelon, cheese and cheerios

now a pro with that sippy cup

and so the curls have arrived! what am i going to do with these girls' hair?!?!

matching pj love

first sugary sweet for this girl! got a cookie surprise from aunt jenn and mason:)

enjoying a snack at mayfest and trying to get the hang of that snack cup

 

Mother's Day 2012.

Family fun, great church service, the hubs, and these 2 cute girls in my pic below made for a wonderful day.  Couldn't ask for more!

Full Moon Run 5K

This past Saturday night Jenn and I did another 5K.
The Full Moon Run.
It was a pretty straight shot and made for pretty fast times.
So far my fastest time yet!
Official chip time was 33:12!
That's over 1 minute faster than my last run!

Next year we definitely have to make babysitting plans and bring the hubbies along.
There were chairs and blankets everywhere, a concert after the run, free beer for the runners, hot dogs, funnel cakes and more!

first driller's game!

Tim and I decided that we would have a special date night with our little Caraline.
A special night just for her.
Memaw stayed home with little Ellie girl and put her to bed for us.
And Caraline got to go to her first ever Driller's baseball game!
It will definitely not be our last either, she had a BLAST!
I'm sure all the sweets mommy and daddy let her have had something to do with her loving it too!
There were also fireworks following the game so it was a late late night for our little girl (us too).
But she was absolutely perfect.
She was a little scared of the fireworks at first but as they went on she got use to it and loved the pretty colors.
It was such a great little outing for us.  Can't wait to go back!

love the new ballpark!

first came the cotton candy!

she loved!

then came the ice cream, which she also loved of course.

after all this sugar she was wired for the night!

embrace the camera iphone style

the weather has been absolutely beautiful this past weekend and so far this week.
so on tuesday the girls and i headed out for a walk to our neighborhood pond.
it really is pretty and so peaceful.

the girls got out of the stroller and we just sat and watched the water.

and well caraline got out her binoculars (pretend of course, that's what she's invisibly holding around her eyes) so that she could see the crocodiles:)
love her imagination these days!

as for little ellie girl, she's not really that crazy about sitting on the grass so she stayed on mommy's lap for the biggest part of the time we were there.

love these beautiful days with my beautiful little girls.

 

No Walking Allowed!

This past Sunday night I did my 2nd 5K!
It was the 'Run Tulsa Pink' race.
It was a night run, which I loved, me and running in the morning just doesn't mix well.
Of course I went with my best friend Jenn, who again left me in her dust.
She is awesome, Jenn is going to do her second half marathon next weekend....I only wish!

At the Run Tulsa Pink (benefiting cancer) I accomplished my 2nd running goal!
NO WALKING!!!!!!!!!!!
It was so hard, this course was much different than the pretty much straight shot of the St. Patty's Day Run.
There were many more inclines from the get go.
I'm using this excuse as to why even though I didn't walk at all my time was only a few seconds (like less than 5) better than the first:/

My official time was 34:29.
In my female age group I placed 49th out of 107.
Overall female I placed 239th out of 583!

I am so thankful for Jenn getting me out there! It feels so good to be able to accomplish more each time I go!  So far my farthest run I've done is 5 miles.  Not quite Tulsa Run material yet but hopefully I'll get there by October.

Next run up:  The Full Moon Run!!!!

10 months!

our littlest munchkin will be 10 months old this friday.
it's crazy to think in that just 2 short months we will be celebrating her turning into a big 1 year old.
she is changing and doing something new just about every day now.

ellie tidbits:
she still has 6 teeth but is teething at this time, 2 more about to come through.
crawling, crawling, and more crawling.  it is still mostly army crawling, sometimes she's up on all fours but the army crawling gets her there faster.
in size 12 months clothes and size 3 diapers.
still loves all foods.  she will eat anything.  we are now doing a lot of finger foods.  she loves to feed herself smashed blueberries, toast and pancakes bits, cheese bites, green beans and pieces of banana. 
mommy is still her favorite person ever! she lights up when i come in from work and comes crawling to me as fast as she can (that's if she hasn't gone to be all ready).
but she is also a very outgoing baby and loves to be around people. 
she is very attentive to what others are doing, she could people watch all day and be happy.
just this week the pulling up has come on full force.  not a fan of this because she loves to come into the kitchen and do it on the tile floor and then of course it ends in her falling over and screaming.
we have let go of the swaddle (yes, 10 months and we still did it), it wasn't a full force swaddle, we kept her arms out but when it was put on she knew it was bedtime.  but even without it she is still sleeping great and it's nice to have 1 less thing to pack when we send her to the babysitters or go somewhere ourselves.

eating/the milk stuff:
we started trying out yogurt at 8 months.  prayed and prayed that she wouldn't have a reaction to it. 
she did fine at first and then it seemed like she would spit-up (or in this case throw up, it smelled terrible) the more we gave it to her.  so after a couple of weeks we just kind of backed off of it.  we waited 2-3 more weeks and then tried again.  success! no throwing up (in fact the little bit of spitting up that she was doing has stopped all together!).  she is tolerating yogurt just fine and she eats little bits of cheese bites without any problems! (thinking tonight she may just get herself a cheese quesadilla for her 10 month birthday dinner).  we are just about out of the neutramigen that we have on hand, i have a case of gentlease in the cabinet, really thinking about just giving it a go?!?!

schedule:
now it goes something like this for our big 10 month old.
7am bottle
730 breakfast
830 nap
1000 play
1100 lunch
1230 bottle
230 play/snack
500 dinner
600 bath
630/7 bottle
730 bedtime


we went to see dr. daley this past tuesday for her well check.
ellie girl weighed 18lbs9.5oz(40th%), height 28 1/4in(60th%).
he said things looked great.  she only got 1 shot this time.
we don't go back til her big 1 year appointment!