Ellie - 11 months

Ellie is 11 months!

Unofficial Stats:

Weight: 18ish pounds

Height: 27.5ish inches

Other highlights from the past month:

• Sleeping -  Ellie is still a great sleeper.  She's been going to bed earlier and is quite content to go to bed around 7:30.  You know she's ready to bed when she starts rubbing her eyes.
• Eating - Ellie is eating mostly table food.  She still has some baby food.  We taught her how to suck the baby food out of the squeeze containers and she thinks that is pretty cool.
• Favorite activities - Walks outside.  Playing with her farm animals.  Eating ice cream cones (I had not intended on giving her ice cream yet, but I was having a cone a few weeks ago and she snatched it out of my hand and LOVED it). 
• Notable accomplishments - Giving big open mouth kisses on command.  Saying Duck and making duck noises.  Stands unassisted for 20+ seconds. Two top teeth arrived.

Katie & Kyle's Wedding

Katie and Kyle's wedding was this weekend.  It was a beautiful ceremony and lovely weekend.  Congratulations Katie & Kyle!!

 

 

Brady is 4 1/2

I told Brady that he was going to be 4 1/2 this weekend.  His response was that we needed to have a party.  We tried to explain that you normally only have a birthday party once a year, but he was pretty adamant that we celebrate 4 1/2.  At Christmas time I had bought some stocking stuffers that I hid so well I didn't find them until well after Christmas.  They were perfect for the party!!

Ellie - 10 Months

Ellie is 10 months!

Unofficial Stats:

Weight: 18 pounds

Height: 27 inches

Other highlights from the past month:

• Sleeping -  Ellie is still a good sleeper.  Typically she sleeps from around 8pm - 7am. 
• Favorite activities - Getting into the pantry.  Finding and eating little pieces of things on the ground. 
• Dislikes - Brushing/wiping her two teeth.
• Notable accomplishments - Clapping. 
• Eating - Ellie is eating more table food.  She is still having baby food at most meals.  She exclusively drank breast milk for 9.5 months, but started having some formula during the day a few weeks ago as I stopped pumping at work.
• Other notable activities - First Sporting KC game.

Easter 2013

Easter is not complete without the annual Easter egg dyeing.  We settled on four eggs, one for each family member. Cory and I both like eating hard boiled eggs, but they lose their eating appeal when they are dyed.

Brady has a late afternoon soccer game on Saturday so we got a late start heading to Wichita.  It was a short trip, but was good to see everyone as always.  Grandpa Larry sang in early service.  Afterwards we had a big lunch and the kids had a Easter egg hunt. 

Brady's 1st Soccer Game

Brady is playing organized soccer for the first time this spring.  The league is setup so the first 30 minutes are practice and the last 30 minutes is a 3 vs. 3 game.  Brady loves soccer and loves playing with his friends from school.  There is no score keeping, but the Thunder (team name) definitely won their first game by a landslide.  Brady made several goals and was very excited!

Cerner Easter Event

Cerner put on another great kids holiday event.  Brady ran into his good buddy from school which made the morning even more fun.  Brady did great in the Easter egg hunt.  They had it divided into three different age group.  Ellie's age group was 0 - 2 so I thought she would do OK picking up a few eggs since it was all little kids, but she freaked out with all the people and kids around her.  You will just have to imagine a cute picture of her picking up eggs because if I had taken a picture it would have had tears.  Maybe next year.