What's new in Ella's world...

Once again, I haven't blogged in awhile. What's been happening?... We've been so busy with work, holidays, traveling, and my etsy business. We took a trip to North Carolina to see my grandparents. They got to meet Ella for the 1st time and we had a wonderful trip. I always love going to visit them. Ella slept pretty much the whole 7 hours there and back! I have such a good baby =) Ella sleeps through the night most nights. She can now turn over from her front to back. You can no longer leave her on the bed alone! Although, she hates being on her stomach so she starts screaming the second she rolls over! We had the pacifier battle and we officially have a thumb sucker now. She sucks her thumb when she is tired or falling asleep. So cute! Or course, Chris got to see her do both of those things 1st and failed to mention them to me until after I saw them for myself. He didn't realize that they were milestones to be written in the baby book! Here are some pics...

Ella with great-grandparents, Grandma and Pop

taking a sink bath at Grandma and Pop's house

thumb sucker
She loves being naked
  She loves stinking her tongue out and it cracks us up!

 The more we laugh, the longer she does it!

Back to work

I haven't blogged in a while. I am learning to juggle work and motherhood! Working 2 days/week is definitely better than 3 days at work, but it is still an adjustment to get used to. I was with Ella for 3 months straight and to have to go 13 hours without seeing her was hard. I just finished my 3rd week of work and I am getting the hang of it. It really hasn't been too bad leaving her since I am blessed to have 2 great babysitters (mom and Chris). I have only had one melt down at work so far! Here are some updated pictures of Ella. I still manage to take a million pictures. I think she probably has a picture of every day of her life! 

She loves the lights on her Christmas tree

I am very proud of the $1 tights I found in the Target dollar section

All smiles as usual!

"It's a major award!"

For years, I have loved the leg lamp on "A Christmas Story" and wanted to sport it in my living room window. Well, this is the year! We won the major award! "FRAGILE" it must be Italian!

For years

The Hunnibees Knees

Most of you know that I have always loved being crafty. Mom and I have been making home decor and kid's stuff for a while now and recently opened an etsy store for kids stuff, called 

The Hunnibees Knees at www.thehunnibeesknees.etsy.com

Eventually, we hope to have a home decor store as well. Everything in the store now are things I made a while ago. We will be adding more things as I get adjusted to the mommy thing! I hope you like what you see! 

My heart is melted!

I know all my blogs are about Ella, but she is my life right now. She melts my heart! There is no love greater (except for God's love for us)!  She is becoming so fun and I love to hear her coos and see her smile. My inner child is definitely coming out. I will make any face imaginable to make her smile! I will even sing to her (Kim)! 

Grandma, she's wearing the hat that you knitted and looks adorable in it!

Having some, not so fun, tummy time to strengthen those neck muscles
Those big eyes melt my heart!
Sweet smile!
I love watching her sleep. She is so beautiful to me! 

Our little Ladybug

Our little Ladybug didn't like her Halloween costume too much. You can see that in the pic of her and daddy. We went to visit daddy at the fire station on Halloween. Then we decided to make her a pumpkin and she didn't like that too much either. I think our neighbors thought we were torturing our baby! When I look at these pictures, I realize how big she is getting. She now smiles, focuses on faces, and follows objects with her eyes. Before we know it, she'll be crawling =(

Newborn Pictures

We just received Ella Cate's newborn photos and I am so proud of them! It was an adventure (to say the least) to get them made! The photographer told us the session would probably take 2 hours and the longest it had ever taken was 4 hours. We broke the record for 4 hrs and 15 min! Go Ella! Ella peed and pooped on us several times and did not want to go to sleep. I know we were pushing our luck by asking our 1 week old baby to fall asleep after we stripped her naked and twisted her in all sorts of positions! I am so happy they turned out so well. You can view the rest of the pics through the link on the side. Ella is getting so big now and she looks so tiny in these pics. She now weighs 10# 14 oz. and is 7 weeks old. She's a good eater!