Knuckles!

A couple of cute pictures to share! Last night Ellie fell asleep with her fists closed. Daddy though it looked like she was trying to give him knuckles, so he gave her some knuckles back. Guess cousin Carter is rubbing off on Ellie already.

Now We're Talking

That's right! Today Ellie was cooing away! She was laying on her belly (yes, she really does like it that much) and just down there talking for quite awhile. Too bad that I am not fast or smart enough to grab the camcorder until she had finshed her speech. But we did get some cute pictures of her just laying in her crib after we got dressed for the day!

Doctor and Grandpa

Today Ellie went to the doc for a non-regular visit. Last night we noticed something poking out of her belly button, like a new piece of skin. We called the nurse this morning and she asked us to come in stating that it could be an umbilical hernia. Fortunately, that isn't what it was. Its an umbilical granuloma - when they cut the umbilical cord it usually just dries up and falls off. However, occasionally a new piece tissue develops on the stump of the cord - that's all this was. The doc used some silver nitrate to help dry up the tissue and it should fall off later this week! We were sure glad that it wasn't a hernia or anything worse. On a side note of her visit, she weighed 8.3 lbs. with her diaper on - we figure she's about 8 lbs. without it. Growing so big!

Tonight Grandpa is in town before he flies out of Sea-Tac for Montreal, Canada. He's headed there for work - seems to be going about 1 time a month these days. The nice part about it is that we got to have dinner together.

Happy Birthday Auntie Becky!

A special video for Aunt Becky! Hope you had a wonderful Birthday!

If the video doesn't pull up after you click play, just click ahead slightly on the play timeline.

Belly Time for Ellie Belly

Ellie loves to play, especially belly time. Today she played for 20-30 min on her belly, followed by another 20 min or so on her back!

A Busy Day

Today we were out and about making a trip to the mall and then to Babies R Us to use Ellie's gift cards. We decided on a swing. You can't see it in this picture, but it has a really cute mobile above it with three blue owls and some ribbons hanging down. Another plus is that its high enough so that she can look out our window in the living room at the birds on the feeder. She really enjoys it so far.

Happy New Year!

Happy 2010!! Today has been a lazy, yet productive day. We have been taking down our Christmas decorations and some other house chores. But of course, we have been watching lots of football today. Ellie has been hanging out with daddy watching all the games.