I cant believe its been one year. One year since Elisabeth Rose entered this world, changing the lives of those nearest to her. She came quickly on the evening of June 10, 2008 and I waited a few excruciatingly painful days to see her and meet her. But once we got home, we bonded instantly. She is my favorite person in the world, and if you have met her, "talked" with her or seen her smile, I'm sure she is one of your favorites too. Even at 5.0 lbs this little girl could light up any room- she has that energy about her and all the expressions to make you laugh! She is just so happy and relaxed! I'm so thankful for Elisabeth, Ellie, pee-poo, pumpkin poodle, Elle Belle, the list goes on and on...and I can not wait to see her grow and learn. I can only imagine what kind of fascinating and fascinated little girl she will become. She is so loved and so blessed by those around her. Yay to us, for this very first year milestone...they(children) really are pretty hard to break!

So here are the recent developments in Ellie's world...

1. We have movement people! That's right, Ellie has been known to take a few steps. But, its not often...yet. She could be in the center of the room and stand up wave her hands in the air and then sit back down again! She could totally walk if she wanted to...she just needs a little confidence.

I, for one am thrilled that Elisabeth doesn't appear to be a dare devil. I remember my parents were constantly worried that my brothers and sister were going to hurt themselves and a lot of the times they did- jumping, climbing, sliding, diving- they were wild and fearless. I was...not.

2. Elisabeth will wave hi and bye to you. I love it- I have been working on this for MONTHS. Also, if you have something she really wants, like a CELL PHONE she will turn her hand and wave it as in gimme, gimme, gimme...its funny. She must have seen somebody do that before?

3. Rob and his parents have taught her the CUTEST thing. They ask her, "How big is Ellie?" and she raises both arms way above her head as if to exclaim- IM SOOO BIG! It is adorable!!

4. Ellie hasn't started speaking yet, but yesterday my mom was giving her some sherbet- and we were all saying yummm, yummm and I swear she said YUM. I think it might be her first word other than Dada and Mama. Which is appropriate I guess, since Ellie can chow down when its time to eat!

The following pics are this morning before I came to work- I woke her up. I had to, I was too excited for her!

Doesnt she look so grown up here? It makes me cry!!

Pool Season

Here are some pics of Ellie with her cousin Lauren in her baby pool!!

Elisabeth's 1st Birthday- Invitation

I will be mailing out the actual invitation hopefully tomorrow.

Updates on Ellie

Our little Elisabeth Rose will be One Year Old on June 10th!! Can you believe its just around the corner? If you havent seen Ellie recently then you have may have missed her cruising the room, clapping and make fish/ kissing faces. Most of the time you can hear her humming little tunes to herself while you sing to her or play music, or saying da dada daaaa over and over. Yesterday she said mamma. Okay, it wasnt really mamma but it sounded similar! mma ma mma ma or something like that- it made me feel good none the less! My brothers John and Jeff are musically inclined and they play the guitar/sing for Elisabeth and she is mesmerized by it. I need to get a picture next time!

Ellie is a curious little cat and is always looking, crawling, furniture cruising etc and she never gets tired of it! She likes to go for walks in her spiffy stroller but the mosquitos love her too much and she has three bites right now! :(

The pictures below are of her furniture cruising. I was trying to capture it on camera but she thought I was playing peek-a-boo with the camera.

This is the only way i can get pics of me and her...
looking for me under the camera

There you are!

Morgan's Graduation Party

Last weekend Ellie and I got to visit with Debbie and her family at Morgan's Graduation Party. Morgan Collom (soon to be Dr. Collom) graduated from SHSU last week- yay!!

Mom, Ma, Kymmie and Ellie

Me and Nat being silly!

Easter and such

Elisabeth and I went to Austin for Easter to spend time with my Mom. We had a great weekend and got to visit with Aunt Suzy, Uncle Larry, Michael and Brett. Ellie ate lots of great food and had a ball with the dogs!

Bunny Ears!

Ellie's Mimi (Rob's Mom) got her this really cute Easter Bib. We didnt even take many pictures of her in her outfit but here are a few of us outside and such.

It ended up being a great day to be outside!

More random pictures

I have been trying to take a picture of Ellie everyday or so, because I wanted to enter a photo in a baby magazine contest thing. I'm a horrible photographer but I have an easy subject! Anyway, most of the time I'm trying to get one while she is in her crib because she wont sit still otherwise. She is crawling so much and so fast now! I was so worried about her moving around, I didn't really think about what it would be like when she could. I get sad sometimes that she is so big and independent now. I will have to post some crawling pics or some video if I can figure out how. Elisabeth can also drink successfully from a cup (a sippy cup, but still)! My baby is now a big baby!!

Ellie sporting my headband!

She can pull herself up on the furniture and the sides of her crib!

She hasnt figured out how to get down though...

Hawaii shirt from Auntie Vanessa. There are some pretty barrettes she got her too!