Family Fun

This weekend was a lot of fun! On Friday I drove a bus full of Middle Schoolers to an Indians game... that part wasn't so much fun... but Sean, Jess and Ella followed the bus and came to the game too! It was the first time I have been to a baseball game and even though the game itself is SUPER BORING! IT was fun playing on a blanket with Ella and enjoying nasty ball park food and playing cards with my husband and best friend! Saturday was crafting day! Jess and I picked up all the items needed to do these really neat DIY watermark Tee Shirts http://www.u-createcrafts.com/2011/08/creative-guest-watermark-tee-by-sweet.html They took a little longer than I had expected but turned out great we made her 6 different onesies... this one says Team Wigglekins on the front and on the back it says BEANS and has a #7. Sean and I call her Beans and she was born on the seventh... here is a picture... taken with my webcam.... its not very good quality


On Sunday we went to church as normal but then went to my Mom and Stepdads house for a going away party for my step brother. He is a Marine and was home for the past week. It was fun to play board games and eat delicious grill food with the fam. Ella got to meet some of her family members that she hadn't seen before. She is all over the place now. She is army crawling really well and she has started to crawl on all fours now too. This week she also started trying to pull up and can get up on her knees from her belly. She can also go from being on her belly and sit herself back up. I can't believe how many things she is doing and its all happening so quickly! In a month or so she's gonna be standing and then its walking and then my free time is officially dead :)

Food Fun!

I have always loved to cook and to bake. When Sean and I first got married, like most new wives, I went nuts... cooking new stuff all the time and trying new recipes. However, recently I have fallen into a rut with it all. That is until Ella was ready for solid food. My in-laws had a magic bullet blender and I had heard it was super easy to make your own baby food, so i went to the store, bought tons of produce and proceeded to cook and puree. I couldn't believe how much fun I was having. My birthday was a a few weeks later and I asked for my own Magic Bullet and received one from Sean's Gram. It is probably my favorite appliance :) .

I have been making food like crazy for Ella. peas, green beans, lima beans and brown rice, chicken and pasta, sweet potatoes, mango, pineapple, squash and the list goes on and on. I love knowing exactly what is going into her food and Ella loves it. I actually bought some jars of food from the store when I took Ella to CIY in July and she refused to eat them ( and that never happens). All of this got me thinking about what other things i buy from the store that I could probably make on my own. One easy recipe i found was for crackers. Not something I would have thought about making at home, but it makes perfect sense. You pay what... $4 for a box of good crackers at the store and its about $.50 worth of ingredients. SO i gave it a shot and so far these are my favorites http://busycooks.about.com/od/quickbreads/r/cheesecrack.htm . I made a big batch tonight and they are GREAT! I also whipped up some pancakes that I put applesauce and pears in and now my freezer is officially FULL! I will post pics of all this yummyness soon!

6 months and lots of new developments!

It has been almost a month since I last posted on here and life has been crazy busy. Ella said her first word last month and has since started babbling like crazy. Her first word was MOM :) and then she started saying YaYa and now she says Ba and Da ( but not DaDa ) which makes Sean very sad. He kept telling me that Mom wasn't her first word until we caught it on tape so...




There you have it... Proof :)

We had her 6 month appointment on the 8th and she is weighing in at 16.1 lbs and she is 26 1/2 inches long. The doctor was very pleased with her growth and said she was doing things a little bit ahead of schedule. She is sitting up like a pro now and she is army crawling, rolling and rocking on all fours now. Its like after she hit the 5 month mark she exploded with new things! I love that I am home to witness it all!

Another development is that I have decided to try and start selling some of the crafts I have been making. I've been teaching myself how to make clothes and hair things for Ella and people kept telling me I should try to sell it so I hope to have an Etsy website up by the end of the week! Its been fun, but kind of crazy at the same time. I will post the link when I get everything done. For now enjoy some pics of Ella...

Sitting in a Black Hawk Helicopter




So Sleepy


Modeling one of Mommy's headbands


She loves to eat!