Creepy

Last night, we went to the Spaghetti Factory for dinner with Ryan before we dropped him off at the airport. (He's moving to New York to be closer to his wife that lives in Toronto until the visa's go through). Anyway, back to me: ;) --We were sitting in what I decided was the kid section. They seated us around all these other families with young children. I didn't mind one bit since we we too, had a child. I actually was quite happy they had some place like that. I didn't feel completely awful when Ellie started crying cause she was exhausted+bored.

Near the end of dinner, a couple showed up, and up until that point, Elisabeth had been the youngest one there. The couple that came in had a week old little boy. It was like a train wreck to me- I couldn't stop staring. He was TEENY! Drew proceeded to insist that our baby was once that small. I couldn't see it. I said to him, "No, she hasn't grown at all, she's just learned how to smile and has gotten stronger!" - we both laughed.

But the strangest thing happened. I actually LONGED to have a wee little baby like that again! I am a bit freaked out by even saying it! It's like I can't figure out where my teeny little girl went, and now I have this giant princess. AND she's just going to get bigger!

So, even though I'm a little freaked out to say it, I suppose that as long as it's in our cards, I suppose we're going to have to have another baby some time just so I can cuddle a teeny little one again :)





my baby went from this little thing to this:

So Proud!

Yesterday afternoon, I went to check on baby girl and I found this:



I squealed in delight!!1

Here's some other pictures cause I haven't posted enough of them ;)


She likes to lick spoons!
*PEW PEW PEW* eyes!



She's very rude and doesn't know how to close her mouth, but she wanted to show you one of her halloweeny outfits! She has to wear it on Saturday for the Dragon Run, cause it's her only orange clothes :D ---did you guys hear that?! She's going to wear something TWICE!!...heaven forbid...I know...I'm a little embarassed. hahahaha

<3

I'm in love!

HoT DiGGiTy!!!

(biting her nails fingers in anticipation of the results!)

After months and months of waiting, (...ok ok, maybe 2 months) but YEARS of watching Drew work toward these results,

Drew PASSED his bar exam!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOO!!!!!

Good work honey, your girls are proud of you!

And to top off already great news, his boss officially offered him a jarb today!!!!

Happy 3 Months Old-iversary, Elisabeth!

Tomorrow (Monday) Elisabeth will be 3 months old- can you believe it?! Cause I sure can't! I was going through pictures just now and I'm amazed at how much she's grown. It doesn't seem like it until I look at pictures, but wowee- she is just amazing!

She can coo and goo and sigh with the best of them

She can sleep through the night

She is very good at shoving her hands in her mouth, and has recently taken to enjoying licking her left index finger.

She can almost roll over from her tummy to her back (but HATES being on her stomach, so we coddle her a bit too much on this, I'm sure)

She can roll onto her left side from her back, but hasn't quite figured out how to roll completely over.

She can prop herself up on her arms while on her tummy and can consistently hold her neck at a 45 degree angle, and is getting to the 90 degree angle mark here and there.

She smiles for us all the time- but getting a smile on camera is difficult since she's so interested in what we're doing, she'll stop smiling to stare!

We even got her to laugh this past few days which has been exciting.

She enjoys watching her daddy play video games on his computer and strangely enough, enjoys watching football on tv.

She's holding her head up on her own almost all the time, and will even try to pull herself up into a better sitting position with her stomach muscles

She can almost sit up by herself if you position her!

She loves looking at pictures and listening to books

She's tasted (aside from golden milk!) lemon popsicles, dairy queen ice cream, licorice, tortillas and last, but not least, a pickle!


I can't believe how much she's accomplished in such a short amount of time! She is absolutely amazing and I am amzed at how utterly in love I am with her more, and more, every single day!


Showing you her devil horns!


Showing you her gecko and bottle- two favorite things!


Mommy and baby- Ellie forgot to look!


Watching Daddy play his video games!


Showing you her awesome sunglasses!


This was Drew trying to entertain her cause she wasn't feeling well today! hahaha she started crying right when I got the camera out to take a picture!


Happy girl!


Spontaneous family picture, Ellie forgot to look again- and I cut my hair :)

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Yay for bath time!!!


Cutie hat!- looking at Great-grandma Bricker

We love you Elliebellies!