Monday, June 23, 2008

Ella feeding herself and smacking

It's been a while since we added a video! Here is a brief clip of Ella getting some help feeding herself (she hasn't been all that interested in doing that until lately) and then showing off her smacking noise. Enjoy!

With mom and dad

Here are two more of Ella with her parents!

A birthday celebration!






Ella enjoyed eating the cake, but was happiest to smear it all over her face and tray. When we gave her a bath that night I found it all over her little body! This is a progression of how it went... you can see in one of the pictures that she's telling us she wants "more" cake!

Ella likes to text her friends.


She is very technosavvy.

Ella is one year old!






With her birthday on Friday the 13th, Ella celebrated her first year - and a whole year without any illness! And then she promptly caught her first cold. She has tons of new tricks and sounds - like smacking her lips - and is quite convincing with "mama" and "dada" these days. She seems to love bears (hugs her teddy bear all the time and kisses them in books) and dogs and being mobile! She is aching to walk so that she can get into all sorts of trouble. She will definitely keep us on our toes. Here are some recent pictures: