Ellie & Jack

A fleeting moment of PDA from Jack!

Catching Up is Harder Than I Thought!

Over the weekend I had planned to get up nice and early to attempt to sort out the piles of pictures of Ellie we've accumulated and to catch up a little on the blog.  Well I got up at 5am on Saturday and started with the pictures and Ellie woke up about 45 minutes later.  So doesn't that figure?  I have nicknamed Ellie "my little teenager" because she sleeps in when she's allowed to until around 10 or 11!  But on the day I thought I would actually be productive, she decides to be the early bird.

"I'll play later, Mom.  Can't you see I'm sleeping?"

Sunday I needed to get some groceries, so I got up early to sneak out alone and guess who woke right up?  You guessed it!  Well, maybe she's working on having a more typical schedule after all...

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?"

So between Ellie and cats and hanging out with Scott, I managed to get all the pictures from 2011 neatly sorted on my computer!  There were 993 on my iPhone alone!  I didn't get to any blogging, but I will be able to now, because I will be able to find the pictures I need for the blogs.  Yay!

Latest Developments

This past week Ellie turned 6 months old!  She's been working on crawling for awhile now, so it didn't surprise me too much when she finally crawled forward yesterday.  This is a little clip I took this morning at work.  Jack has lots of neat toys, so she was really motivated!  I love the excited noises she makes.  She's so proud of herself!!

                                      

I also particularly loved the way she kept stopping at the end to measure the distance she still had to go to make it to the toy she wanted!

But a surprise development (I think she must have been practicing in secret) was waving hello! 

Momma

One of my earliest memories is finding a note my mom left for me to read while she was at work. It said that when she got home, we would make a Halloween witch craft out of an old plastic jug. I don't know what happened to that witch, but I will never forget making it.

My mom, she always did the most she could to keep us happy. We didn't have a lot of money, but we always had fun things to do. Another favorite memory is driving around without any real destination and finding an apple orchard! She really made the best of things.

My mom was my preschool teacher! It was great! And when she left my dad, she started a daycare from home in order to support us and be a stay at home mom! If anyone wonders who my inspiration is, look no further!

And when Christmas rolled around, you would never know we were poor! I don't know how she did it, but our tree was always overflowing with gifts! We had a ritual on Christmas morning that started with my sister and I playing Mastermind while we waited til the time Mom had told us we could wake her up. Then we would go and gaze at the tree in wonder. There were always a few unwrapped teasers. After this, we'd have breakfast. Then it was stocking time. Oh the laughs we would have while we opened our stockings! Finally, we would head to the tree and open our gifts. Christmas mornings with my mom were lovely.

My mom has always been one of my best friends. I could always tell her anything. I think there may have been times she wished I wouldn't tell her so much! But even then, she has always listened.

My mom is on my mind a lot right now. She's going through a rough time. But she has a lot of support and she's a positive person so I know she will be all right. But I was thinking about her and wanted to share a little bit about her here.

I love you Momma!

Sick Six Month Old

Ellie and I are waiting on the pediatrician. She started throwing up and hasn't stopped. Poor thing just keeps retching! It's horrible.

Catching Up

I get these crazy blocks in my head that prevent me from getting things done. Right now it is the idea that I need to catch up this blog by writing about things in the order that they actually occurred. Because of this, I just never write anything!

So for however long it takes to catch up, I promise no order at all!

I do have a long list of things I plan to write about. My other block is the pictures and videos. Blogger doesn't have a very user friendly photo/video upload and placement system. I always have to go in after and rearrange everything! So it's sort of a pain to put more than a couple of pics in a blog.

This coming weekend, Scott and I are going to try to have everything we need to do done before it begins. We've had some crazy busy weekends and this weekend is just for relaxing and doing what we want in a lazy fashion. I think I will try to sneak out of bed early, brew some coffee, and really start blogging!

Until then, here is a picture of my sweet girl hard at work on her sixth month birthday!

More Blog, Less Facebook

It's been three months since I have blogged! My baby is almost 6 months old!!! I feel like I have a great excuse... I have a baby, who has time to blog with a baby? But when I think about the amount of time I spend on Facebook, I realize it is no excuse. So I will be trying to blog more and Facebook less. I think this will be better for Ellie in the long run. More privacy and a saved blog she will actually be able to look at and read later!

So hopefully I will get a little caught up this weekend. I hope to become more comfortable with the way this blog publishes photos. I have also set up a way to blog from my phone. So on the go pics and thoughts can easily be posted!

I'm also planning to create some Shutterfly photo albums to share with family and friends. I also plan on blogging about the five kitties!

Well for now that is all, but I will be back very soon!!!

Trouble

Look at this face! This is a weapon! How would anyone be able to refuse anything to this face? I call this her "please can I have a pony" face...