Ella's 1st Birthday Party

Ella's 1st birthday party was a blast! Thanks to all the friends that came and to our family that flew in to help Ella celebrate. We had a full house and Mark, Ella and I feel so loved to have such great friends and family.

We sang happy birthday to Ella with everyone and gave her a cupcake to eat. It was funny... and then beacause we didn't have enough amusement... we gave her another one, this time CHOCOLATE! Messy, messy!

After everyone left the party we realized that we never even cut the cake! So we sang happy birthday AGAIN with the family.

Ella was acting very timid with the cake, so we let her play around a bit....

Maybe that was a mistake! :)

Into the bath for Ella!!!!

Happy 1st Birthday Ella!

Today was Ella's 1st Birthday. It's so amazing to me that it has already been a year! I know I keep saying it, but time really does fly!

Ella has been changing daily in the last month. She says quite a few words: "dada" "mama" "hi" "light" and "doggie". She points at almost everything and says "that", asking us to tell her what everything is.

No walking yet, but we are getting close. She knows she's not quite ready and gets upset when we try to let go of her fingers and make her stand on her own. She does get around pretty quickly on all fours- crawling all over the place. She can go up and down stairs pretty well and even has a baby walker that she walks around with. We know the walking will be coming any day... and I really don't think I'm ready! Ha!

Our biggest news is that she finally has TEETH! The 1st one started poking up around Jan 15th and then by the time Mom & Dad got back from their trip to Cabo- she had TWO teeth! Look closely in the pic below to check out the chompers!



The big birthday bash is on Saturday with some family and friends and then Ella had her 1 year doctors appt next week. I will be posting a full report.

Happy 22nd Birthday Uncle Tom!

Ella wanted to wish her Uncle Tom a Happy Birthday!

Happy New Year!!!!

Goodbye 2008... Hello 2009!!

We have so many things to look foward to this year. The first of many exciting things will be Ella's 1st birthday at the end of this month (Jan 29th)! We can't wait to help Ella celebrate this big milestone. Maybe she will even get some teeth in time for her 1st birthday!