Halloween 2009

Ellie was a bee for Halloween....and a great Bee she was:)

All sorts of new things....

Ellie is doing lots of new things....sitting up in her high chair, getting up on her hands and knees like she wants to crawl & babbling a lot (ma ma ma and ba ba ba). She is loving to eat our homemade veggies (except squash!) and likes to take small sips out of a cup when she's done.

She LOVEs bath time and even likes to get in the shower with Daddy. Ellie also seems to really love music...she waves her arms and legs when music starts and smiles a lot....quite often it even sounds like she is trying to sing!

One thing she's mastered is putting her pacifier in and out of her mouth on her own (except some times in the middle of the night when she prefers to wait until mommy or daddy come in to do it for her!). Here's a funny photo where she got it in...just upside down...

Stay tuned as I am sure there will be a video of her crawling soon!

6 Months Old!!

Wow - Ellie is six months old already!! Here she is (and also a picture of she and mommy) at her 6 month doctor appointment. She weighed 15 lbs 1 oz and was 27 1/2" long. ...long and slender the nurse said;)

Here is a cute picture of her helping Grandma with some laundry this week.

Big Weekend for Ellie!!

It was a big weekend for Ellie! On New Years Eve, she sat up for a few minutes by herself for the first time! She doesn't have sitting up mastered yet, but definitely is getting the hang of it! The three of us flew to St Louis on New Year's Day. It was Ellie's first plane ride and she did great. She played quietly the first half of the trip and slept the second half. We arrived at Aunt Audrey and Uncle Brian's in the afternoon and the entire Wittmann clan gathered to celebrate Christmas together. Here she is with cousins Alex and Ashley.

El got some gifts perfect for her....some fun bath toys, her own cell phone (she's always grabbing for mommy and grandmas...although I'm sure she's disappointed that hers doesn't have text messaging;) and check out this cute hat from Audrey and Brian. It was almost 50 out on Saturday so we took her for a walk at the park.

Ellie also broke her first tooth this weekend! It's on the bottom left and as usual, she's about as happy as could be.....

she has been just a bit fussy at night, but mostly she just wants to chew on things more.

It was a great weekend with family and Dan also got to see a number of his good friends from St Louis on Saturday night.

Happy New Year!!