Ella's 1st Hike

Damon and I were feeling adventerous the other day and we decided to go for a nice easy hike. It turned out to be a mile further than we thought and much steeper. But, Ella did great on her hike (in the baby bjorn) and we all enjoyed lunch at the top before heading down. I think Baguette may have been the most tired out of all of us!

Ella's Stands Up

I'm in for it huh?!? Ella has begun learning how to stand up. She's not quite crawling yet, but I guess she feels like she can move onto other skills at the same time. She is so proud of herself every time she gets up!

Ella's Song

SOme of you know that while I was pregnant we went to a ton of weddings. It seems that at these weddings, or other random parties, we always heard Rihanna's song "Umbrella". You know the one..."under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh". Well, after awhile that kinda became Ella's theme song in the womb. We would all point to my belly when it said her name. So, we thought it was important to take some video of her dancing to her song!

Ella's Learning To Crawl

Ella is taking "baby steps" towards crawling. SHe wants to so bad! This video shows where she's at right now. Usually a toy in front to entice her will get her to stretch a little farther. Although sometimes it looks like her leg is going to pop off!

Ella's 1st Swing

Ella is showing her cousing Evan all around Seattle this week while his parents are on an Alaskan cruise. Ella and Evan went to the park this afternoon and Evan taught Ella how to swing.

Ella's Eating Solid Food!

It took Ella a good week to get used to eating from a spoon, and it's still pretty entertaining. She has eaten rice cereal, sweet potato, avocado, banana, and acron squash. Here is a video from the acron squash incident of 2009. She definitely has fun when she eats! ALso attached are the pictures from the sweet potato incident of 2009.

Gymboree

I've started taking Ella to Gymboree for the past month and she absolutely loves it! Not sure if it's the activities, the colors, or the other babies, but she definitely is all smiles while she's there. She loves to see the bubbles, the balls spinning in the mirror, and she loves parachute time!