Easter Sunday

Ella and her first Easter Basket

Ella's Easter Dress

Aspen and Ella. Aspen picked out both their dresses.

CHEESE!

Trying to get a cute picture of Aspen she kept turning her head away from me when I held up the camera. I finally had to resort to bribery of the sugary kind.

Dying Eggs

On Saturday Aspen had a new first...we colored easter eggs. She thought it was lots of fun to see the white eggs come out different colors. Amazingly enough we made it through the even with out any major spills or messes!

Quinceañeras (15th Birthday)

A friend from church asked Dane to be a member of her Court for her Quinceaneras. He agreed, not knowing what in the world she was talking about. After finding out it included dancing he was a little reluctant, but he was a good friend and went to the practices and did his best and wore a tux! I think he may have even enjoyed himself just a little bit. Here are some Pictures from the party.

Dane and the Birthday Girl Sabrina Colls


Dane and his partner Sophie Piaz entering the dance floor.

The Beginning of the Dance


The Birthday girl Sabrina Colls and her escort

Dane and partner Sophie Piaz

The party favors. Aspen loved the glass slippers and collected two full pairs to bring home with her.

Rolling Over

As I have mentioned before, Ella has been rolling over from her back to her tummy. Well, this last week she has also been working on going from her tummy to her back and can do it most times. She has also become a "bi-roller" meaning she can roll to either side and a few times she has traveled across the room with successive rolls. What I trying to say I guess, it that my dear little baby has become mobile! Time to be obsessive about vacuuming and picking up Aspen's little toys and all the fun baby safety stuff on top of keeping the 2 1/2 yr old Aspen off of her! What a job, but she is SO CUTE and she rolls around. PS I had to buy her some new PJ's this week to because for some reason I couldn't find any of the larger (3-6, 6-9) PJ's I used for Aspen and Ella as out grown all her 0-3 months big time and even the one 3-6 month one I have is quite tight length wise. The ones I bought her were 9 mo! I had to get them because the 6 month would have fit her perfect right now with out even being washed! I am so not used to having a long baby! Well, I'll be putting up easter pictures soon. Hope you all have a peaceful and blessed holiday weekend!

Ella's First "Food"

In it goes....

Out it comes...

I'm not so sure about this stuff.

Okay I could get used to this.

yeah we're all done!

We introduced Cereal to Ella today and wondered what her reaction would be. Aspen took to food like a fish to water, she was eating a bowl full of cereal a week after we introduced it to her. Well, Ella was a little different. First she really struggled with the whole tongue thing, when she went to swallow she pushed her tongue to the front of her mouth and that pushed out most of her food. From the first bit to the last bit she was pretty unsure about the whole thing. And that night and the following night after eating cereal in the evening she was up almost ALL NIGHT being a little cranky and a little gassy, but mostly awake. Brent has been telling me to start her on food for awhile now because it helped Aspen sleep better, well yeah right! Not only was she awake but she nursed like I'd deprived her of food all day! So we have switched to a lunch time meal and last night went much better. What an adventure having children is!

Four Months already!

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4 Months

Ella had her 4 month check up today, can you believe it has been that long already! She is 12 lbs 10 oz and 25 inches long, putting her in the 25-30% in weight-7lb gain- and the 75% in HEIGHT-6 3/4 in growth- (who would have guess that Brent and I could have a tall kid?) Because of the difference in height and weight we are going to be starting Ella on cereal and baby food this month-by recommendation of her pediatrician. Pictures of that event will follow shortly I'm sure! We love our two little girls and it is very exciting to see them learn to play and interact with each other! We are looking forward to a time when we can travel out to Utah and see most of you, we miss you!

Aspen likes to help me pick out Ella's clothing now. She picked out this cute pink onesie and jeans for Ella and then turned around and picked out this similar pick t-shrit and jeans for herself, they were so cute all matchy I guess it's time for me to start making them matching outfits!
Pucker up!

So sweet!