First Tractor Ride

Weekend of (mostly) fun

We had a pretty great weekend! Friday we took advantage of the gorgeous weather and took the boat out. We put in at Olcott and drove down to Wilson. We hung out in Wilson harbor for a bit and let Ella play. We also saw a beautiful, huge swan at the boat launch in the harbor. On the way back to Olcott we had a pretty rough ride, but Ella did not mind at all-- she fell asleep in my arms and slept the whole way. After we pulled the boat out we stopped to visit at Grandpa Jeff and Grandma Kim's house and ended up staying for dinner. Ella had lots of fun playing with the toys there and getting to look at all the fun stuff in her Aunt Mallory's room.









On Saturday (Ella's 10 month birthday) we ran a few errands in the morning, played outside in the afternoon, and then had the Rosenberg's over for dinner and playtime for the babies. Our neighbors across the street were nice enough to bring Ella over a little tikes baby jungle gym/slide that their grandchildren had outgrown. She loves it! Unfortunately that crazy rainstorm blew in and we only got to spend a few minutes playing outside. We had a great time though!









Saturday night, however, was a totally different story. Ella went to sleep like normal but woke up a couple hours later screaming and continued with that for most of the night. I think was a combination of teething and a little cold. I think I ended up with about 3.5 hours of sleep that night. Sufficed to say, we laid pretty low Sunday morning.


Sunday afternoon we ran a few errands and then had a nice dinner at DeFlippo's with Grandma Lisa, Uncle Mitch and Bill. A great end to a great weekend!

**10 month photoshoot pics to come tomorrow...probably :-)

So big!

Ella has been growing and developing by leaps and bounds lately. Sunday (4/19) was the turning point for her crawling. She went from scooting here and there to full on crawling across the room. She thinks she is so clever too-- she'll crawl over to something she knows she's not supposed to touch and then turn around and give you a huge grin. Her personal favorites are the laptop cord and the cell phone chargers.
She is also in the process of getting two more teeth on the bottom. They seem to be coming in a little more quickly than the first four, which took FOREVER to come in. In fact, her two top front teeth are still not all the way down.
Tuesday (4/21), Josh and I celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary. The 3 of us went to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and had a great time. It's so crazy to think that it's been that long already.
Ellabean will be 10 months old on Saturday. I still find it hard to believe that my baby will be a year old in only 2 months! Stay tuned for the 10 month photoshoot...

Fun in the sun

We took advantage of the beautiful weather and spent some time outside while we waited for Daddy to get done working.

Ella in her new chair, hanging out with Remi

Showing off all those new teeth!

Row, row, row your boat

We decided to take the boat out for a little ride since the weather was so gorgeous. We put in at the West Canal Marina and drove out to the river. Ella loved watching the water go by but she did NOT love wearing her life jacket. She was very happy when we docked in Tonawanda for lunch so that she could take it off. We can't wait to spend lots of time on the boat this summer!

Ella and Daddy

Beans & Mommy

NOT loving the life jacket

Happy to be free of the life jacket for the moment

Loving the swing!

Ella has had tons of fun swinging in her new swing (as this crazy NY weather has permitted, of course). She is getting to be such a big girl!

Happy 1st Easter Ella Bean!

We had a very nice first Easter with Ella yesterday. She woke up at about 6:30 and we took her out to open her Easter basket, which Otis and Remington were VERY interested in. She got some freeze dried bananas & strawberries, some veggie crackers, a pink rubber ducky, a fun puppy toy and her outside swing.











After some breakfast and a nap, we headed off to church at 10:30. Ella had a great time as usual, clapping to the music and flirting with all the people sitting around us. She also thought it'd be nice to pull the hair of the girl in front of her and throw her new rubber duck at another girl. She's quite the busy girl these days! We then headed to Grandma Lisa's at noon and Ella was beyond tired so we layed her down and she slept for almost 2 1/2 hours. I actually was able to eat a meal with two hands and no yelling baby! Once she got up she had some lunch and then opened her Easter basket. She got a swimsuit, some adorable Puma sneakers, some summer jammies, a few board books, some bubbles, and a birthday girl shirt and bib. Grandma Lisa's beagles were pretty jealous that the basket was not for them.






Once she was done, we packed our stuff up and headed over to Mimi's house and Miss Ella got yet another Easter basket! She got lots of tasty snacks, a snack pod and an adorable bunny. She had a great time playing with Mimi and Popi and even got to visit with Aunt Sherry and Ray when they stopped by. My camera was dead by this time, so I did not get any pictures at Mimi's house unfortunately. By the time we got home Ella was exhausted and she had some of Mimi's rice pudding for dinner and then was off to the tub and bed!

Swing Swing

Today was a fabulous day for our little family because it was gorgeous out AND we had nowhere that we HAD to be and nothing that we HAD to do. We had a great day! First we had some breakfast together and Ella got to try her first little bit of breakfast sausage-- she loved it. We then headed out to the mass chaos that was WalMart to get a few things we needed and stopped at a few other places too. We made a quick pit stop at Grandma Lisa's to drop off the roasting pan for tomorrow's Easter ham and then headed home and Daddy put Ella's new swing up. She absolutely loved it! We stayed around the house the rest of the day and got lots of little jobs done and I even made a polish breakfast cake to bring to Grandma Lisa's for Easter tomorrow. It was my first time making it, so let's hope it is good-- it sure smelled good baking! Tomorrow it is off to church, to brunch at Grandma Lisa's and then to Mimi's house.

Here are some pictures from our outside time today:

Daddy hanging the swing

Ella and I waiting in excitement to try it out!

Big smiles!

Daddy and his little girl