Ellie Dancing

Ellie now does this little dance move any time she hears music.  It is the cutest thing I have ever seen!

A Day in the Life of Ellie (Which Also Happened to be Halloween)

Waiting for the 6:45 bus to take us downtown.

On our first bus of the day.

Bus stop #2!  Waiting for the D bus.

This is a view out of the front window of the second bus.

Happy Halloween!  A cute decoration greets us at the door of Jack's house!

Nom Nom!  Is it time for breakfast now?

Morning Nap

This is Mia, one of Ellie's doggie friends!

Play time at Jack's!

All bundled up to play outside!

Jack makes an adorable moose!

A ride home!  Yay!

Playing with Daddy.

Napping with Mommy.

Time for Trick or Treats!

Ellie's first Halloween stash!

Bookworm?

Ellie's favorite place in Graham's apartment is this bookshelf! She spends a lot of time just looking at and touching all of the spines.

Scrunchy Face

Lately, Ellie has been making the greatest faces. My favorite is the scrunchy face, which I was finally able to truly capture today!

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!