Baby James comes to visit...

Saturday afternoon Baby James Stoner and Mommy (Stephanie) came to visit! I just know Baby James and Ella are going to be huge fans of each other! I could kick myself for not getting pictures of James and Ella...what was I thinking!!!!! But I have to say James is so darn adorable, I hope he doesn't mind being called adorable, and we will get some great pictures in three weeks when we see them again! I love love love my friend Stephanie and her beautiful little boy!

BIG news...

Two important pieces of information for this post...

NUMERO UNO is that Ella has taken her first steps! YEAH ELLA!!! She actually did this last week and being the terrible mom I am had not posted anything yet. It was one/two very unsteady steps from Scott's chair in the living room to mine. And then she went to her bum! It was quite exciting, and actually the real reason I did not post anything yet was being a first time mom did not know if those kind of steps counted as "first steps" but apparently they do, says Shannon! Addie has also taken her first steps! YEAH ADDIE!!! Addie is a bit more steady on her feet than Ella, and she should be with her size 51/2 feet at 11 months of age!! Hee Hee! Addie somehow got my feet and Ella got Shannon's. This all means that these girls are going to be wearing me out very soon!!! I am looking forward to it though!

NUMERO DOS is that it is actually tolerable outside! LOVE IT! See Melissa Fuller...time to move to Texas! I could of actually sat outside today, in the middle of the day, and not died! AND as I type this I am sitting on our back porch enjoying the fact that it is 7:30pm and I am not burning up! Thank you cool front! I hope there is lots more where this came from. It will be nice to be able to get outside more with the girls during the day in the days to come!

We can't believe Ella and Addie are getting so big! Their cousin Nate is already 1 year old...where has the time gone! Cheers to our little ladies and little man!

Movin' & Shakin'

Ella is all over the place these days! If she is not crawling as fast as she can to somewhere she is not supposed to be she is guiding around on the furniture, dancing to the ABC's, walking with her little push toy (thank you Sowell family), leading Addie around the room to the next activity, or if I am in another room behind a closed door she will scream until I come out or lay on the floor and try and look under the door to see me. She needs some serious time away from mommy! I think Scott and Ella are going to have their first Daddy/Daughter Day this Saturday! Yeah, mommy is going to get out for longer than just between Ella's nap times!!!! Watch out Austin, here I come!!!

It is so wonderful to watch Ella & Addie play together! They both get so excited in the mornings when they see each other for the first time and then they play all day together! They have even started giving each other kisses! How sweet is that!

Our last trip to South Texas...

Our last visit to South Texas was filled with lots of family and love! We stayed at LaLee's house that weekend. Friday night after Ella went to bed I ran over to see Erin and Clay (who were married the next day). Saturday morning Scott, Ella, and I traveled down to Edinburg to visit with Pops and Uncle David. Pops was doing great and working hard in physical therapy. We got to sit around and catch up as Ella was passed around. Saturday afternoon Poppie came to see Ella at LaLee's house. Poppie got to feed Ella a little bit before she had to go to bed. Ella had not traveled that much in one day before and she was tuckered out! Sunday was Scott's 38th birthday...so we celebrated with cinnamon rolls in the morning! Then we headed over to Nana & Papa's for a visit and Ella got to spend some time jumping on Papa's bed (which he loves) and jumping on Poppie's lap (which she loves). After running by the church BBQ for a quick hello, we headed back to Austin. On the way back we met Nonnie on the road (she was heading back from Dallas) so that she could see Ella. We had a packed weekend...we loved seeing everyone and can't wait to see them again soon!

Teeth...

Seriously, why do we need teeth? Ella can pretty much gum about anything and get it down. BUT no....we have to now go through the teething process. So Ella WAS sleeping better until the last two weeks. AND...lucky for us her front two bottom teeth decided to come in at different times. It is now getting better, thank goodness! So when you guys see her next she will have some little choppers! Our little girl is growing up...too fast!

Oh, and by the way...I cut her mullet. She now looks like she has a cute little bob, but Scott and I kind of miss our white trash baby!