Ellie's Baby Practice

Quin and Ellie had a "playdate" to test her baby skills. She did a pretty good job and was fairly gentle although she gave Mommy a heart attack a few times...

Tap Dancing

6th Anniversary

Well, we've made it 6 years.

6 years of making a home and now making a family.

This year's events were probably the most low-key of the 6.

We started the day by going to the doctor for our 14 week visit. All was well.

Then Tim went to work for a little bit and I went to look for a back massager because I couldn't turn my head in either direction for a few days. I'm starting now to be able to feel somewhat normal, but pretty much the whole day was low-key because I was in pain and uncomfortable nearly every second.

Then we went out for lunch - which ended up being a 22 mile ride to the Pizza Ranch that's only a few miles from our house. We attempted to try Ole & Lena's in Rothsby (sp?) which is 11 miles north of FF. But it was closed to we drove back and settled on Pizza Ranch. Sounds lame but we liked it.

Then we went to a few antique stores and found the picture that's posted here. Tim was looking through a pile of really old pics and started laughing out loud...like REALLY loud. So I went to look. Neither of us had seen anything like it. So it was a $3 dollar treasure that really captured the spirit of our 6th anniversary.

1st day of Church in FF

Here's Tim and Ellie getting ready to go to Bethel for church. This moment looks really innocent and sweet, which it really was...

Our first impression on the nursery staff wasn't as innocent and sweet as this picture. The lady in the nursery was SUPER nice and sweet about it all...here's how it went.

10:15am - Ellie goes potty right before we leave. Exactly what we wanted.

10:30am - We are sitting in church on time and Ellie's quiet.

10:40am - Ellie gets squirmy and we mentioned that Ava would be in the nursery so we had to go "find her, find her, find her, find her..."

10:42am - I go take her in to the nursery trying to figure out all the rules as I'm walking in so that I don't feel stupid asking how to check her in....it goes ok...I explain about the potty training and the SUPER sweet lady says it's fine...no big deal...

11:10am - The buzzer goes off...CRAP she peed.

11:12am - Nope. She pooped in her pants (through the dress) for the very first time EVER.

11:15am - I finish cleaning her and realize we only have shorts for her to wear. The SUPER sweet lady says that topless children in the nursery is no big deal...um, ok...

11:29am - We run the 50 yd dash out to the car like Olympians during the closing song.

We met NO ONE.
We brought home poop in a bag.
Can't get much more fun...

Pigtails!!! FINALLY!!

M&M Bump

I think this month's bump is more of an M&M bump than a baby bump.
Ellie gets 2 M&M's whenever she goes potty.
Mommy get M&M's whenever she breathes.

Playing with Cameras

This is the look she gave me when she asked me to take her picture. I can't get over how much she looks like Tim in this one.













This is when she kept taking my picture, so we decided to take one of each other. She didn't get the idea but I got the picture I wanted....