How big is Ellie? Soooo big!

I can't belive how much Ellie has grown. She now has two bottom teeth and has more personality, stuburness mainly, than anyone I have ever seen! What a girl she is! So many mothers have approached me when they heard how loud Ellie is and have said that they knew a baby like that and one day they just started talking in full sentences. Well it happened! Kind of anyway. On Brian's birthday we were at his parents house celebrated and I heard a baby that wasn't mine, I turned around and it was mine! Ellie was talking! She has never before cooed or made any of those cute baby noises, nothing but shrilling from this one and now she was saying mama and dada and kitty and all sorts of other unrecognizeable words. This was so special, because it was Brian's birthday and she was saying dada, and even more special in my opinion because it gave me some hope of not having to pack ear plugs in the diaper bag. She has been yelling signifigantly less, but now she is talking, rather loud, but at least talking!! YEAAAAAAAAAAAA! She is so impressive because at 7 months she will try and say almost any word you ask her to, granted the majority of them are not understood, I truly attribute it to all of the practice that she has had! Now I can be one of those moms who hears a baby yelling non-stop and reassure her that one day it will pay of with some awesome talking skills. Ellie is not yet crawling. It is so funny because if you ask her if she wants to crawl, she laughs at you, even though she doesn't know what you are talking about. Daddy will hold her and tell her that it is okay that all of the other babies are crawling, not to worry about it because crawling is a bust anyway. I don't think these pep talks are helping. I guess she is only 7 months old, I should know better already having had a baby than to try and rush the mobility stage.

Dress Up!

We spent the afternoon playing dress up! I like how Ashton picked out some stylin heels, we let Ellie wear some great sunglassess. My camera ran out of batteries before we pulled out the old Halloween costumes, those were great, Ellie was a puppy and Ashton was a dinosaur! What fun kids!

Both of these kids are getting big!

When we first got Toby Ashton could pick him up! Now he is over 130 pounds of pure love! He is such a great dog to have with kids because he is so mellow and gentle, just watch out for his drool and his tail!

Where am I?!?!

This picture cracks me up! We have so many sweet sleeping newborn pictures of Ellie, but both Brian and I agree that this one is our favorite! It really captures what a new baby must be thinking about this strange place and these strange people. This was the same face that she would make at me in the hospital in the little cage that they give you to roll them around in. I remember I would be sleeping and I would look over and get startled because all I would see were the whites of her eyes and the shadow from her hair sticking up, just staring at me. How can you not love her to pieces!

Ashton and Brynn

Ashton loves his little friend Brynn! She has been on vacation and we were looking at pictures on the computer and he kept telling me how he sure wants to play with her. Here are some pictures from their last play date. Brynn is such a good sport at playing all of the boy games like tools and superheros. Ashton even found her a superman cape to wear while he wore his spiderman pjs. They spent the morning flying around the house.