pantshead

Dear Ellie, sometimes mama likes to put your clothes on you in the way they weren't meant to be. And then it was just too cute not to photograph! I promise I'll let you do my hair and makeup and dress me up in silly outfits in a few years and we'll take pictures of that too! It's only fair :) I love you my little "Aunt Jemima" babe!

sleeping babe

Ellie seems to love to find the corners of her crib to get her head in to sleep. No matter how much I try to put her in the middle, she ends up there. I recently started putting in the beautiful blanket that her "Auntie" Chare' had made her. It has soft fuzzy fabric on each of the corners and Ellie loves to put that part on her cheek or hold on to it when she's falling asleep. So cute!

love the neck rolls!

cute girl!

more craftymama-ness

just a few things I made for a recent baby shower :)

What's new? A LOT!

Over the past month and also just this week, Ellie is now:

-sitting up on her own

-getting herself into sitting position and then having no hands on the floor to support her

-crawling!

-starting to eat some cereal in the evenings

-gotten 1 tooth on the bottom

-and as of yesterday STANDING in her crib!

CRAZY!! We love our girl and love seeing all the new things

she is learning and doing each and every day!

yum?

Don't let the smile fool you! She doesn't really like the stuff, but we were making her smile! ha!

letters to my daughter: Month 6

Dear baby girl,

That seems to be the nickname of choice right now, so I will begin your letter with that. It's funny how those change from week to week. Currently, your dad is calling you "Booger" the most. Sorry girly!

Well, two days ago you turned 6 months old! Sorry for being late with your letter. Life has been a whirlwind these past few days and I have no excuse but myself. Your mama is a last minute type of lady who likes to add more and more to her plate all the time. I always say I work better under pressure!

Enough about me though, let me tell you about you! You are now 16lbs, 14 oz and 26 inches long. That puts you in the 75th percentile for both height and weight! Whatever that means :) And as of just this morning, you have one single tooth starting to poke through on your bottom gums! (which explains a lot! haha) Here we go on the teething adventures....

Also, you are now sitting up all by yourself as of about 2 weeks ago as well as scooting all over the place. You constantly surprise us on how you get from here to there. I come into you room to find you sitting half up with one hand at your side kind of holding you there and you look like your posing for me! I love being greeted by your smiling face in the morning. You are so proud of yourself, it's too cute.

Another crazy thing you have started doing is getting up on both your hands and feet, no knees on the ground at all. You are totally doing the downward dog yoga position! The first few time you did this resulted in a face plant or two, but now you have mastered it. I can't believe how strong you are. Just one more thing you amaze us with.

Baby, I love how much I love you. It is one of the best feelings in the world to just be so overwhelmed by it. To see you and to literally, just feel it swell through my body how much I care about you and love you. Being you mother has been such a life transforming gift. I love you for it.

I really can't believe it's been 1/2 a year you've been in the world now! It really does feel like yesterday you were swimming in your sleepers and we were bumbling through diaper changes and you spent over half the day asleep on our chests, I suppose that feeling of just yesterday never goes away for any mother or father. I am so very thankful for our yesterdays, our tomorrows, and especially our todays.

i love you Ellie girl. With all that I am, i love you.

love,

your mama

a little series i like to call....

Ellie vs. water bottle

success!!