Happy, Happy Birthday Baby!

Ella's own little birthday cake :)

Digging around for more presents

Reading a birthday book with Mama

Pretty cake face :)

2/21/08 - Ella turned 1 year old today!!! It's hard to believe that a whole year has gone by already, and we couldn't have asked for a better one.

At one year, Ella is still 24.5lbs (since she was 8 months old) and is finally tall enough to graduate into her "big girl" car seat :) Her favorite food is bananas, favorite snack is Gerber cheese puffs and favorite stuffed animal is still "big bear" :) She absolutely refuses to drink from a bottle as soon as the sun comes up, but at nighttime, before bed, she'll gladly drink til her hearts content, then sleep.... 'like a baby'. She just barely fits into her 18 month stuff, so most of her clothes are 2T and her shoe size is a whopping 5-6! She's going to have big feet like her mama.

Some of the words she knows are: mama, dada, nana, baba, bath, book, night-night, all done, and nothing. She will also wave "hi" or "bye bye", play pat-a-cake and give "high-fives" if you ask her :)

She started walking unassisted a few days before her birthday, but still enjoys being carried and will usually crawl if she wants to get somewhere fast :)

So in regards to her birthday party, it was simply wonderful! All her favorite people were there including her Nana and Amelia :) She got a bunch of noisy presents and a pile of puffs and other snack foods. She was pretty interested in her cake, but she usually is a very neat eater, so she spent most of her time licking her fingers off and trying to eat it with a spoon rather than getting it all over :)

All in all it was a wonderful day to celebrate a wonderful little girl! :)

Aunt Helen's Wedding

Dad, Mom, Helen, Dave, Mrs. Fisher & Mr. Fisher

One of the many pictures taken of Ella with her finger in her mouth :)

Daddy's girl - They were inseparable all day :)

2/14/09 - Ella attended her first wedding today! Aunt Helen was getting married and Ella was a good little girl all through the service and even for 2 hours at the reception. :) We think she's getting afew more teeth though, since she spent the majority of the time chewing on her finger :(

Congratulations Helen & Dave!!

Strike a Pose!

2/5/09 - Did I mention Ella is a ham? Whenever she sees the camera she usually throws herself at me and it's been really hard to get a good picture without her face inches from the lens... but today was an exception. In the below footage, she was brushing up on her modeling poses... and her fart noises and she allowed me to take a nice 15 second video of it all :)

Ellie & Her Daddy

2/2/09 - There's no denying that Ella loves her Daddy... Just lately she's started getting separation anxiety when he goes to work, takes out the garbage or even puts his coat on. She wants to be whereever he is. If it's 15 minutes past the time he would usually come home, she'll climb up on the couch, peek around the living room corner so she can see the front door and say "Dada? Dada? Dada?" over and over...
On this certain occasion, Daddy was taking Ella with him but he needed to put his boots on first and she just couldn't wait. :)

My little co-worker

1/26/09 - Ever since I started working from home when Ella was born, she's always been a well behaved, polite co-worker.... that is, until now. She likes to hide under my desk and grab at my fingers while I type, or reach her arm through where the keyboard is in attempts to grab onto me and pull me under... I guess it's pretty cute :)

Diaper-face

1/12/09 - Just a random few pictures I took while Ellie was getting her diaper changed... She is such a ham :o) And apparently she really likes the smell of her clean diapers...