Shades

My beloved sunglasses broke yesterday. In an effort to clean out my glove box, I found 3 more pairs of sunglasses with severely scratched lenses. On the way to the trash can one pair dropped, being immediately picked up by Ella and carried around ever since.

Why do I even buy her toys?

15 Months

I can't believe my sweet baby is 15 Months old! Where has time gone? I love watching her grow and learn, and my heart has grown every single day since she arrived. 

Here are a few of my favorite pictures if my little heart. 

Some photos from her first week. On the far right, that is her sleeping when she was 1 day old. I walked around the hospital room just looking into her beautiful face. 

Coming home from the hospital. 

Her first Easter. 

1 year photos

9 months 

First time sitting up on her own! 

This smile just melts me!

6 months

Her first flight - she rocked it! 

My two loves

These two are such a wonderful blessing to me from the Lord and I'm so grateful for them in my life.

As soon as Ella hears the garage door open at night she starts off running towards the door to welcome daddy home from work. Her face lights up, she bounces up and down, and she warms her daddy's heart. I love their bond and pray their connection stays strong and sweet.

 

Whenever Ella is coughing we obviously check on her - and this little smarty has figured out that is sure way to get our attention and she continues to cough just to get the laughs. 

The other night she coughed right in Josh's face, to which he obviously turned his face away. As you can see, this reaction tickled her fancy. 

Sledding...

...is the worst.

At least according to Ella.

This past Saturday we took her sledding for the first time. This was actually basically her first encounter with snow in any capacity.

Josh made a little sledding hill for her off of our front deck. They went on a daddy-daughter date to the store to pick out the perfect sled as well. My man is so sweet.

Here she is all dressed for the snow:

Spring Dresses

Winter has been too long and too cold - so Ella's wardrobe brought in so spring cheer this week.

My Aunt Carol gave Ella this sweet little dress - and it finally fits! Yippee! I love the sweet bunnies on it. Thanks Aunt Carol!

 Responding to the question "What does an elephant say?"

Blueberries

...the breakfast of champions! 

 

Cleanup is a challenge. 

Ponytail

Yippee! Ella's hair is finally long enough to play with! 

Today was her first ponytail:

Last week was pig tails: