5 Months Old!

Today our little Ella Bear is 5 months old!  She seems like such a big girl now, I can't imagine how it will seem when she is a whole year old!

According to Great Grandma Boehm's baby scale Ella weighs 15 pounds and is approximately 24.5" - although it is very hard to measure an active little girl!  She is wearing 6 month clothes still and still Costco size 1-2 diapers.  She has started to sleep through the night regularly again - which makes for happy mornings and happy parents!  She always wakes up with a big smile on her face!

Our little girl had a big day yesterday!  Not only did she try some sweet potatoes for the first time she also started crawling!!!  She is a girl on the go!  She loved the sweet potatoes, although she did look pretty confused at first - but she quickly decided it was a good thing :)  She has been on the verge of crawling for weeks and finally figured it out last night!  She needs constant supervision now.

And to wrap it up... a look back...

Missing Ella

So, I knew that once I went back to work keeping up with the blog would be hard... but I didn't know just how busy I would be!  It is hard to find time, so I apologize!

I just got back form a work conference in Chicago for a couple days and I am happy to be back and to just get to be Mommy for the weekend!  I missed my little bear so much!  And Daddy had the house all clean when I got home - a very nice surprise, and I am not sure how he had the time to do it!

I got a couple picture messages while I was away:

 

Ella continues to do great!  She has started to sleep through the night again which is really wonderful - we are all much more well rested and happier now :)

Ella contineus to be on the verge of crawling and sitting up on her own - she is truly amazing in so many ways :)

And with that I'll leave you with a picture from 80's night at my conference - complete with Mel's orginal 1980's crimper.

First Little Cold

So this week Ella had her first cold.  I knew it was coming with being in daycare but I felt so bad for my little sweetie.  She had a runny nose and a little pitiful cough :(

Now that Mommy got Ella's cold I am sure she had a little sore throat as well.  She got her first dose of infant tylenol and she seemed to enjoy the bubble gum flavor.  We realized that was probably the first real taste of something other than formula that she has had!

This of course meant some sleepy days for us since no one sleeps well with a cold.  But with some saline for her nose and the cool mist humidifier she seems to be mostly all back to normal!  Now if only my cold would go away!

This is Daddy's birthday weekend so we will be watching lots of football and going to Cabela's and probably having some macaroni and cheese and hotdogs :)

Labor Day Weekend

A week late but I wanted to re-cap

Ashely, Jeffy, Molly and Oscar arrived just in time for the MSU football game and pizza on Friday night!

The babies had on matching onesies - so cute!  Molly seemed so big and Ella seemed so small again next to one another.  We had a lot of fun watching Molly try and play with Ella.

Saturday we just hung out and watched football all day and chatted.  I made sandwich for 12 which fed us for lunch and dinner and also taco dip and Nick made his buffalo chicken dip, so we had lots of snacking going on - which is pretty much what football Saturday's are made for!

Sunday we went to the Brewer's game!  Ella and Molly did great all in all!  We had to cover Ella's ears during the cheering and fireworks for home runs... which I'm pretty sure there were at least 5, and I think more.

She even had lunch at the ball park... but then pretty much slept on daddy though the game :)

better than peanuts and hotdogs?

The Hunds

The Latinens

Nick, Ella, Liz, Jeff, Ashley, Molly

Ashley let me know that Comerica Park hands out first game certificates so we went to guest services to see if Miller Park did and walked away with a free momento for the baby book!

Don't worry - the Brewers are just her NL team - Tigers are still first!

After the game we went downtown to Rock Bottom for some dinner and while we were waiting Nick played a game of Jenga with some locals who appeared to have spent their afternoon at the bar... it was entertaining!

Monday the Latinen's had to pack up and head home.. but not before Oscar had some fun with one of Lucky's toys, good thing she has LOTS!

It's Here!

I just finished my home deep clean and everything is ready to go for a GREAT weekend!  So many things to look forward to!  Tonight marks the start of college and MSU football season! AND Ashley, Jeff, Molly and Oscar are all on their way for the weekend!  So this will be Ella's first slumber party.  I have talked to her all week about sharing her toys, so hopefully she will be a good girl.

Bath fresh!

I realized today that without thinking about it I am planning on making Mama VanderLaan's (Mo's Mom) taco dip and Mama Hannen's (Emily's Mom) sandwich for 12 to enjoy during our college football watching tomorrow.  So in a way it will be like all of the 1054 college roommates will be back together!

Our plans include crafting and football watching tomorrow and Sunday we are heading out for Ella's first baseball game to see the Brewers!  Depending on the weather it may also be her first tailgate as well :)

She will be more excited once the game actually starts :)

It's gonna be a great weekend!  GO STATE!