Our sitter sent us these pictures this week and I had to share! The first set is of Ella painting her first picture, a father's day present for daddy! Our sitter was also kind enough to make a cement garden stone with Ella's name and footprints for father's day! The second set of pictures show just how messy Ella gets eating. Im glad our sitter always her to explore with food because I have to admit that I dont let it get that messy at our house!

Happy Father's Day

Tom, Ella, and I made the trip to Oldham County Kentucky to visit Grandma Joanne and her new home today. Ella had lots of fun checking out the big backyard and playing with grandma in her beautiful new home.
We had a great first fathers day weekend. Ella and I are both so blessed to have Tom in our lives. He has done such an amazing job at helping me out with Ella and showing her each day just how much he loves her!
Happy Father's Day Tom!

Road Trip!

Ella and I took a road trip to Columbus today. We started off by meeting up with my former co worker and friend Kristen and baby Caitlin at Cosi for the baby museum. Ella played with the balls, blocks, ride on toys, and loved the water table. Next we were off to Easton mall to see Columbus zoo animals and have lunch with a few more of my former coworkers/friends. Last stop of the day was uncle Jordans (actually one of mommys best friends) house, where they were finally able to meet for the first time. Ella absolutely adored Jordan's dog Cross and spent most of her time playing with him. We got back to Cincinnati just when the storms were hitting and both mommy and baby are completely exhausted from a whirlwind afternoon. (however as im typing I still here Ella awake 1.5 hours past her bedtime, could be an interesting night!)

Party Time or should I say Potty Time!

So the picture is a bit blurry and Tom does not think its appropriate to share, but I couldnt resist. Our sitter is already getting Ella acclimated to the potty, which I think is wonderful. I also have to report that she has pooped on the potty twice! She is growing up so fast. Ella has begun to cruise around are furniture and is also able to walk w her push toy! I know that she will walking on her own in no time! She is also a little chatterbox these days. She has so many words and uses them with meaning! Some of her favorites are dog (which she calls every animal along with oof oof for woof woof), ball, Ella, duck, and book. There a ton im forgetting. My little baby is turning into a little toddler which brings a tear to my eye!

Zoo!

Tom was off work today and since the weather was so beautiful with low humidity, we decided to take our first family trip to the zoo! Ella was actually able to see and point at the animals and really enjoyed herself without a single moment of complaining.

I wanted to add a few other pictures from over the weekend. As you can see below we will not be able to leave Ella on the floor in our room while we get ready in the am. I get ready and leave and then Ella is home with Tom in the am while he gets ready for work. She has been rolling all over our room getting into things while were in the shower! This past week we have found her playing in the curtains (as seen below), I also have a jewelry chest on the floor that has small drawers and on two different occassions she has pulled out the bottom two drawers! We didnt even know she was able to do this and luckily the drawers are small and the bottom two do no contain items small enough to choke on! What a stinker!