Sitting

The last two days Ella has decided that sitting up is the cool thing to do. Before it was 30 sec to a minute and she was done but she will now sit for 10, 20, and this particular day for 45 min!

Ella's Loves

1. The back right hand corner of her crib, with her head practically kinked and face up against the bumper! She ends up this way every night even when she is put to bed already asleep. Last night we moved her back to how she starts and checked 5 min later and she was back like this!

2. Any cord she can find. All cords have now been put far away and she can't reach any of them!

Mother's Day

We had a great Mother's Day. Andrew made me this yummy Edible Arrangement, he made an even bigger one for our brunch they gave the mom's at church. We love our moms and all they do for us!

Redbirds Game

Last Tuesday was Andrew's last day off for 5 weeks so we headed to the Memphis Redbirds game with some friends! The night started off a little humid but turned really nice later on. We sat on the bluff and enjoyed the game!

The bird came to see us, kinda creepy but Ella was in love the bird laid down in front of her and she loved its beak.

First Swim

Last Saturday we went swimming with some friends out at the Tunica Aquatic Center. It was so much fun! Ella loved the water and her turtle! She loved when the water would splash on her face. She got really cold toward the end and was very calm. We will definitely be swimming a lot more this summer! After we got home she took a 3 hour nap we totally wore her out!

Ella and Garrett (Thanks Heather for letting me steal this from your blog!)

Tuckered Out

She was playing one minute then asleep the next. She had almost a 3 hr nap about and hour and a half before this. She then slept 13 hrs last night.

Chicago

Andrew finished school a few weeks ago! He is now in his second year! During his week and a half off we decided to go to Chicago for a couple of days. We stopped in Springfield, IL for the first night so we could see the Lincoln sights the next morning. Then we headed on to Chicago. It is such a walker friendly city and was very clean. We probably walked 8 miles in one day we were worn out!

Here is Ella ready to go!

Illinois first state house unfortunately it is closed on Mondays.

Inside Lincoln's home

Outside Lincoln's home. The National Park Service gives tours of this house. When Lincoln's family sold the house to the state they sold it for $1 under the conditions that people would be able to tour it for free. Well the tradition still lives on and so the tours are free which is always nice!

We were able to stop and see a friend of mine from growing up, she lives outside of Chicago. I hadn't seen her in 8 years. It was fun to catch up and they were so nice and treated us to some amazing Chicago deep dish pizza! She has a little 3 year old boy and this little girl who is two months younger then Ella.

We wore her out before we even left the hotel for the day.

Navy Pier - this is where we parked and then walked the whole city from here.

People really wanted to give us there opinion on how Ella was dressed. One lady told us she was cold, the back of her head was sweaty I don't think she was cold. Another lady made a point to yell at us and tell us she was getting sunburned. Well she had a hat and sunscreen on so I think she was ok.

The weather was perfect - 75 and hardly a cloud. It was windy in a few spots but other then that it was really nice.

There were tulips all over the city this was a little garden area just off Michigan Ave.

Michigan Ave. we just window shopped the only place we could afford anything was the 7-Eleven.
Weird Kidney bean thing

Millennium Park it was so pretty and fun to walk through, although it was very windy. We enjoyed sitting down on the grass it was nice and soft and didn't have chiggers.

Windy

It was so much fun we wished we could have seen more. I know I am forgetting already some of the things we saw.

Crazy Weather!

We have now experienced the crazy weather they have here with tornado warnings and watchs and sirens going off! I don't really like it at all!

Bumbo

Just over a month or so ago we bought a bumbo. Ella has loved it! Dad thinks it is a great tool to use when he is watching her. This day he turned on Aladdin and she was all eyes! She loved it! It kept her attention for a good 45 min!