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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Halloween 2013








 Ellie is quite shocked her wild and crazy brother is invading her crib right after her nap.



 Fake smile, I tried


 Jackson is instructing me to put the flower behind my ear
 The face he makes when he doesn't like stepping on things without shoes...classic

 They make the same faces. And it makes.me.laugh.
 Typical...Jackson holding Ellie's arm so she doesn't grab the pumpkin

 Here comes my flower!
 My teething flower, that is. She is always "grinding" her lower jaw these days. Poor baby girl.


 Keepin' in real
 Happy Halloween!





 Jackson & Ford Russell

 Ellie & Meme




Thursday, October 24, 2013

Ellie 10 Months




 Sweet Ellie is 10 months old and a ball of FUN.  Getting into everything, flapping her arms when she is excited about something, bouncing up and down to "dance," playing peek-a-boo, still slurps, still slams her legs on her changing table and crib when she's excited about something, giggling all the time.

On October 5th she started saying "MaMaMaMa," and on October 10th, she started actively waving at people. This past weekend when our family of four was at the beach, she started using her "pincer grasp" on October 20th to pick up her Puffs, and she gets really excited about that (the Puffs, that is).  The new foods she has tried is butternut squash, corn, and today she nibbled on a bit of plain pasta.  Ellie still nurses every 3 hours, going to bed around 5:45/6 pm, and wakes up around 5 am.  We love our bundle of joy!

 Loving her toy from Aunt Rosemary.  Jackson likes it too :)






 Above pic was the day someone asked me if they were twins  (!??)



 Future redhead??

 Celebrating both of my parents' birthdays
Celebrating Ashley and Les' beautiful wedding

 Not sure what to think of the sand
 Jackson, on the other hand, LOVED the sand, ocean, everything about our spontaneous last-minute trip to the beach. Quite a change from our May 2013 trip.
 Um, Mom, there's SAND on my hands



 Both kids wearing Babyators from Alabama Vision Center (amazing glasses and guaranteed for life)
I am so thankful for our quick, last minute, and dare I say, relaxing time at Seacrest Beach.

Jackson is still his funny, sweet, and spirited 2 1/2  year old self.  He loves Ellie, and she loves him, and I pray their relationship always stays this way.  Lately, we've heard these phrases from Jackson:

"NO"
"STOP"
"I a big boy, mama!"
singing the blessing (melt my heart)
singing songs to Ellie if she's crying
singing worship songs in the car
loves to read
loves to play with fire trucks, trains, police cars, anything boy related
gives me directions of where to go in the car ("tuun, wight dere"...turn right there)
copies everything Andy does (also melts my heart)




 Loves the car wash

Same facial expressions





30, Flirty, and Thriving

"Thirty, Flirty, and Thriving"

My favorite line from this delightful romantic comedy 13 Going on 30. And the phrase that kept going through my head on September 27th, as I celebrated with friends and family turning the big 3-0.  (see trailer to the movie at the bottom of this post)

I started off the morning with brunch at OverEasy with 2 of my best friends from elementary school.  Then we had a quick run to get our nails done, and back home for nap times for the kiddos (Andy graciously watched the kids that morning for me).



My parents threw me a fun, fabulous, 30th party that night.  Beautiful weather, fun with friends, perfect night.