32 Wks pregnant

Feeling great at 32 weeks. Its hard to believe that in 50 days we will have another addition to the family. Definitely not ready!

Ella reading me a bedtime story

Saying "cheese" to the camera

Playing babies with daddy.

Busy Day

We had a very busy day today. First we went to the library for story/song time, what a great 30mins of free entertainment for kids. Ella had great time running around with all the other kids her age. After our little class we picked out books and then headed for the park to meet our friends. It was a record high temp. today so we had a picnic and played on the playground and chased around some ducks. We finished out the afternoon before going home for a nap by taking a walk to get some ice cream. What a yummy treat!!

As far as updates go with Ella: She says new words daily. She is really into finding bugs and when we do she acts all scared. She loves getting nightly horsey rides from Jake. She climbs on his back, holds on tight and says, "go daddy" when Jake gets out of breath she gets down and will find her plastic carrott and feed Jake. It's hilarious. And the other thing she does is pulls out her own diaper and changing pad when she needs to be changed.
She is in the middle of saying Binky when I took this picture.

Room remodel

This past weekend Jake finally started working on Ella's new room. Its still a work in progress but I thought I'd show you a few pictures. I think Ella is really going to like her new room once she is all moved in.

Ella's a big helper with her daddy.
Checking out the new window seat!

Think Spring

The last few weeks we have had some really nice weather off and on. Everyday that it has been sunny I have made it a point to get outside and take advantage of it. Me and Ella usually either walk to the local school and play on the playground or drive down to the park and play on the play structure there. When you ask Ella if she wants to go to the park she will clap her hands and say, wheee. She gets so excited because she loves going down the slide. Surprisingly she is quite brave and will even down the big twisty slide by herself.

She loves to cheat and try and walk up the slide


Pretending to drive daddy's car. Beep beep!

Last week before Papa arrived we made sugar cookies.

Ella is quite the talker she trys to say lots of different words each day, she is even putting two words together, here are a few things she says: Oh daddy, Hi baby, wet, bubbles, noodles, Elmo, happy, neck- short for necterine, water, cookie, bye, go, all the animal sounds, bink- short for her binky, Mick- short for Mickey Mouse, she can point to the letter E and knows that is how you start to spell her name, same with the letter L. Her new color she can find in the crayon box and say is peach. I'm sure there are more but for now thats all I can remember.

College Bound

Here is my little bookworm all dressed up in her Marquette duds.

Here is Ella watching a Youtube video of cats meowing- now that is all she wants to do.

Valentine's Day

This weekend Grandma and Grandpa Menard came to visit. Ella had a great time laughing and giggling with them. She even showed off all her moves and extensive vocabulary for them.

18 months old

Ella has been such a little chatter box the last couple of weeks. She loves to say her name. When we eat at table she will point to me and say "Mama" then to Jake and say "Dada" and then she points to herself and says, "Ella."
She can also tell you the different colors of things. Right now she knows, blue, yellow and purple plus she can count to two and some times she adds in four and eight.