Recently, Ella has been rather unhappy-shall we say ‘temper tantruming’ a lot? Hopefully this is a phase…although I’ve heard of the ‘terrible twos’ which she will be approaching very soon. One of our attempts to get her to stop crying is to say, “Ella-smile!!!” She, in turn, gives us the cheesiest grins and poses ever-they are hilarious! Enjoy.
TA-DAH!!!! I’m happy again!
I should of known…Rilyn did it once, even Ella has done it before. I’m talking about putting them in a skirt with no bloomers on to take their nap. I can see the ‘mom cringe’ now…so yes, Ella took her diaper off while she was supposed to be taking a nap. Not only that, she peed all over her sheets and blankets and decided to take apart the diaper. So when I finally walked in, (an hour after I put her down I started hearing noises), there was pieces of diaper cotton stuff all over the crib and the carpet where she was in the process of throwing each cotton piece out. She even took out the diaper liner which was on the floor too. geez. When will I learn?
On another note, we went to a neat water park today, Scott B. Mentzer pool in Pflugerville. It was way fun! Rilyn is starting to cop a ‘tude these days when she really wants something. Here is her trying to tell me that she wants to go to the park now(!) Oh goodness, the teenage girl attitude is already coming at age 3!
As promised, here is Chapter 1 of Ella’s first year. Better late than never…right?
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When Grandma visits, we always try to do something fun. We went to the Austin Children’s museum on Friday and had a great time. Looking over the pictures, I realized Ella is looking a lot older these days…she will be 18 months next week. How time has flown, especially since we have moved to Manor!
Well it took us 6 months to get started but we are on our way to getting Ella’s first year movie produced. The trailer below is a taste of chapters to be released in the coming months. I think you will notice the imprint of today’s popular TV shows, which sets up to the rest of the movie of the mystery who is Ella. I hope you like it and feel compelled to share.
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Ella turned the big 0-1 January 5th. We had family come to our house to celebrate her big day. She had to being awakened from her nap to join the festivities so needless to say she was not in the best of moods. (see video) She loved her cake as you can see from the pictures! Ella is about to walk, she takes 3-5 steps by herself right now so Rilyn is looking forward to when Ella can chase her around the house. She loves to wave bye-bye and kiss things now too-very cute! Her new word this month is ‘night night’.
Rilyn is being potty trained (attempt #….I lost count). She is doing really well this time though, so maybe it will stick! She really wants to fill up her sticker chart so she can go to Chuck E Cheese! Her favorite tunes these days come from the Pocahontas soundtrack and her favorite cartoon is Wow Wow Wubbzy. Pizza is her entrée of choice and the last time she had it she told us that she likes the frosting on the pizza best. (Referring to the cheese as she peels it off the top to eat.)
Well, January has been a busy month for us as we found a home in Manor, Texas (30 minutes from downtown Austin)! Why Manor you ask (population 3,000)? Well, it is a long story, but it is definitely a God thing! So, we close Feb. 26th and then we have a lot of repairs to do (we bought a foreclosure-what a deal!!), and so we should be moving in at the beginning or middle of March. Our house hasn’t sold yet in Houston, so that is our BIG prayer request! Also, we would appreciate your prayers for a smooth transition to Dell in 2 weeks.
As Ella becomes increasingly mobile, I foresee many “that’s my toy!!!” coming from Rilyn’s mouth. I was able to capture their first real fight (I couldn’t intervene and ruin such a funny moment!) and rest assured Rilyn got a talking to about being rough with Ella.
Ella is almost 9 months old. She has 4 teeth now and can almost crawl. She loves to bounce and the nursery workers at church think she will be an astronaut when she grows up because of the way she loves to ‘blasts off’ when she is in the bouncer. (We think she will be our athlete.) Her hair continues to grow upward and I have gotten many comments on her Mohawk! (no I do not style it that way, it is natural) She got her first ear infection last week (in both ears) so we dealt with some fussiness, but other than that, she continues to be a smiley, sweet-tempered girl. Rilyn started her second year of preschool this year. We attempted to start potty training her, but realized she is still not ready. (I mistakenly bribed her with chocolate and then one day she picked up her poo in the potty chair after she went because she thought it was chocolate. We thankfully got it from her before she could put it in her mouth!) She has a treasure chest full of wrapped little gifts and she still tells me “Mommy, I won’t go pee pee in the potty!” She is very opinionated! We think Rilyn will be our cheerleader/singer of the family. She loves to belt out any Disney tune and makes up lyrics to any song on the radio. She keeps us laughing as many say she is 2 going on 15 years old. The other day, I must of interrupted her ‘cell phone’ conversation because she told me “wait a minute, I’m on the phone.” She loves playing tea party, watching Caillou on TV, and ‘scrapbooking.’ Yes, I have created a mini scrapbooker-she will sit along side me and put hundreds of those tiny round stickers on paper and is perfectly content. (It’s our bonding time.) I’m so proud of her. 😉
Ella is almost 7 months old!! Where has the time gone? Ella can now sit by herself and has gotten her second tooth. She went ‘swimming’ in a pool for the first time and loved to splash around. Ella continues to be such a sweet-natured baby, the only thing to be aware of is her Jaws-like attack for your fingers! She loves to bite anything! (see movie). Her favorite thing to do right now is bounce in her bumper jumper that we hang from our door frame. She is working those leg muscles! (maybe that means she is getting ready to crawl soon??)
Rilyn continues to make us laugh with her funny sayings. “Oh man, that’s crazy!” or while playing with her cash register in her room, “I would like a #5, diet Dr. Pepper, fries and a drink.” (We know that’s a sign we’re eating too much fast food!) During a recent stinky diaper change, her Sunday school teacher asked her, “what did you eat?” Her response-“Vegetables.” Rilyn also spent a week by herself at “Camp Oma & Papaw” (James’ parents’ house). While there, she went on her first picnic, went to the zoo and had a great time.
the paquettes 