January

With February right around the corner, along with Elsie's First Birthday!!... here is January in review!

Big girl Elsie in her big girl chair!!

And being her funny little self... always having to have something in her mouth!

 That hair... it is in need of a trim however, but I am having a hard time cutting it. I am afraid she will look too old!

 Oh my gosh this picture kills me... too funny!

 Dave put her in one of his shirts and she thought it was so funny!!

 One of her first times watching a show... it lasted 10 mins. She wouldn't take her afternoon nap so I made her a bed and turned on Yo Gabba Gabba... which is a scary show if you ask me

Curling her hair before church 

 We put Elsie in her big girl car seat! She is in heaven and loves it!!

 This girl and her spaghetti... need I say more?

 We took Elsie to the Discovery Museum at the Gateway. She loved it, but we definitely are waiting to go back until she can walk and doesn't stick everything in her mouth! 

 This was one of the first dresses I bought when I found out we were having a girl! I love this dress... don't worry that the next day Dave dried it and it shrunk... so sad!

 Playing dress up! She is starting to put headbands and clips on her head, so I decided to help her out!

 My future little piano player!

 This is what my days are like... she loves to crawl under this thing and play. Never-mind my filthy floors, but she is so funny and always busy doing the most random things!

11 Months

Babies Elsie;

My my how you are growing up fast!! So fast I can barely keep up with you!! You are full of life, energy, and spunk!! Every day you develop new tricks and hit new milestones. You are a little talker!! You can say  "oh oh", "ho ho ho" (we say "what does Santa say" and you say "ho ho ho") , "dada", "mama", "nana", and "moo".  You are very into the "ohhh" right now, with your cute puckered lips! You are always jabbering away and it is so cute!! You have started to stand up on everything and you can now take steps with your little grocery cart. You have gotten so fast and crawling and let me tell you little girl, you are IN TO EVERYTHING!!! You are so curious and aware of your surrounding, you are always on the move from one thing to the next checking everything out. You love drawers and everything you shouldn't. You have no fear! We forgot to shut the gate to the stairs one day and you crawled right over to the very edge, turned around so your back was to the stairs and you started to just play... living on the edge! You are just a sweetheart and you are definitely aware of others around you and their feelings. If you think we are hurt you get so worried and concerned. You LOVE other little kids!! We go up to Savannah and Avery's once a week and it is by far your favorite thing!! Sometimes I feel bad that you are an only child right now, because you love having other kids around!! During church you love going around and playing with all the other kids. You are so social and love to be around other people. If we are somewhere and there are other people around, you will not go to bed, you know you are missing out on a party. You do so well in crowds and love to just be hanging out with everyone! And you will let anyone hold you which of course is so nice!! You are still really easy going and content, but you are starting to get more head strong and you are starting to get frustrated if you cant have something you want. You love to dance around to music, you move your arms around like little wings. You also love to clap all the time! When you get upset (especially when we change you) you will instantly calm down if we sing to you! You love to look at yourself in the mirror and look at pictures! I think it is one of your favorite things to do... you get so excited to see yourself! You will also "kiss the baby" if you see your reflection! You are excellent at drinking out of a sippy and love juice and water. We had to take you up to Primary childrens to get a VURL done. You had a really bad bladder infection and they wanted to check you out. You did so good, even during the VURL test!! You were so brave and did awesome!! You are such a good girl!! We could never tell you how much you mean to us baby girl!! We are so lucky and blessed to be your parents!! We hope you always stay as sweet as you are now and continue to be curious!! You are perfect in every way!! 

xoxo Mommy and Daddy

Christmas

Holidays are so much more fun now that we have Elsie around! 

Here is an overload of pictures of our Christmas!!

Elsie trying on her snowsuit for the first time to make sure it fit!!

Hse loves wearing this thing because she thinks she is so funny in it

The first day it snowed we called up cousin Brooklyn to play! They were both mesmerized and didn't quite know what to do!

 Elsie and Dave built a snowman

 We got to go to Hadley's Madeline birthday party!

 Okay I know this picture is awfully frightening, but can I tell you it is my child to a T!! This is seriously what she looks like when she is crawling! She is a woman on a mission... a mission to destruct! I love this baby, she is the sweetest, happiest little girl but let me tell you, she is BUSY!!! She crawls around frantically from one thing to the next checking everything out and getting into everything! She has no fear!

 We went to see the lights twice this year. Once with Morgs, Todd, Hadley and Preston and then again with my family

 On Christmas Eve we went to lunch with Dave's family, and then had everyone over to our house to make cookies and watch movies. It was so much fun and the girls loved it!!

 That night we went with my family to dinner. We have been going out to diner as long as I can remember and I love it! This year we went to Rodizio's and it was so good!

When we got home, books and Christmas jammies were waiting for Elsie in her bed

She loved this!! It was so cute to see her get so excited!!

Christmas Morning!!

After we had our own Christmas, we went to my family's in the morning

Elsie got this little fire truck sit and scoot from my mom that she LOVES!! She also got the fischer price house front and it is by far the greatest toy ever!! She will play with it forever!

  On our way over to Dave's parents for the afternoon we stopped by my Grandpa's for a little bit to see all of my cousins. MY Grandpa has the cutest dog named Bubbles and Elsie is obsessed!!! She is always grabbing her and chasing her down!

  We spent Christmas afternoon and night with Dave's family

 Here are the cute little girls with even more presents. They both got cute little kitchens which they love and some clothes!!

 I was helping Elsie push the stroller around and funny Brooklyn hopped in for a ride. They both were giggling so hard!

 Then they switched! They are too funny together!