Pre-Toddler

Our little girl is growing up WAY too fast. It seems like every day she is reaching some new milestone or just in general acting more mature. She's funny. Oh so funny. She giggles and flirts constantly. She runs from us and laughs when we say "no ma'am!" or "bad girl!" She's both the sweetest thing I've ever known and the most mischievous. She's curious and SO ready to walk. For now she's a "pre-toddler". She crawls SUPER fast and loves to pull up to standing. And.. She can stand on her own. She loves to play and she loves to cuddle (on her terms only though). She's everything to us. She is Eleanor.















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Applesauuuuuce

Being a parent makes you do ridiculous things to make your kid laugh. Example:

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8 Months

Just realized I never did an 8 month update for Sweet Ellie!  Oops!  Better late than never - here is what's going on in Ellie Land.

Height: 27.5" (65%)
Weight: 17lbs 13oz. (46%)
Head: 16.9" (9th%)

• Ellie is crawling and climbing on EVERYTHING.  She started crawling on August 5th and hasn't stopped since!
• She is still eating baby food and nursing several times a day (or bottles of breast milk if she's at daycare), but she is eating some table food.  We had our first choking scare and I had to do the finger sweet to get some apple dislodged from her throat.  SCARY stuff.
• Two new teeth!  Ellie got both of her upper front teeth within 2 days of each other.  A teething baby is not a fun baby.
• Ellie loves textures, especially soft ones.  Her favorite thing to do right now is crawl over to the dogs' bed (which is off limits to her) and throw her face down in it.  I guess it's really soft? It's like those Febreze commercials.  Pretty funny.
• She is sitting in the tub by herself!  No more baby chair for this little girl - she is crawling and scooting all over the bath tub.  So much fun!
• She likes pretty much everything, but fresh homemade Green Beans and Mint is her favorite right now. 
• She still has a hard time using a regular sippy cup, but she is getting better.  We are hoping that she gets the hang of it soon.
• She looooves drumming on things.  Banging can be heard all around the Page household at any given time.
• She is pulling up to standing and loves to hold on with just one hand.  She is such a daredevil!
• She's gone from sleeping through the night to waking up once a night around 3 am.  Apparently this is pretty normal when babies learn to pull up?  I'm hoping it passes soon.
• She claps!  And waves and says heeeeey.  So cute.

Cinemagram

My latest obsession

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Love bug has the Stomach bug

Sweet Ellie got the nasty stomach bug that is going around.  :(  Yesterday she threw up on the way to work, but me being a first time mom, just thought it was spit up.  Get to day care and realize that she is SOAKED from chin to knees with "spit up" (later I found out was full on vomit).  Changed her at day care and barely got out of the parking lot before they called and said to come pick her up.  Luckily Casey was able to work from home and take care of our girl, but it was a ROUGH day.  Not only was Ellie vomiting all day long and unable to even keep water down, but on the way home from work I got in a car accident and I didn't get home until almost 7.  SO glad that day is over. 

Today I am at home with our little sick baby and she is feeling much better.  A little diarrhea (TMI?) but happy and getting in to everything as usual.  Here she is playing with her shoes!

Pickup truck Part Deux

In addition to the Toyota Tundra we just purchased, we "purchased" another truck yesterday. Say hello to my dad's new '72 Ford Courier! I looooove old vehicles and can't wait to help Daddy restore this old girl. The previous owner called her "Corrina" and let's just say that Corrina is going to need some extra love to get back in tip top shape. The cool thing is that she only has 45k original miles! Esther the Escape has over 50 and she's a 2009!!


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Little giggles

The highlight of my week was last night. As I was feeding Eleanor she bit me. I said "Ouch! No biting!". She looked up at me and smiled. This is how the rest of the conversation went:
Me: "No Ellie, bad girl!"
Ellie: *smiles*
Me: "Ellie, no biting. That's bad!"
Ellie: "HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA" laughing hysterically.
Me: (trying to hold back a laugh) "No laughing... Bad!"
Ellie: "HEHEHEHEHEHEHE"

Then I couldn't help it any longer. We both got the giggles (me laughing at her laughing at me) and we both couldn't stop.

I just can't get enough of those little giggles!

Happy Friday everyone!


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Something women like about a pickup man

Casey has a truck again! Yayyyy!


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Labor Day Weekend

Another fun weekend for Ellie (and us) visiting the grandparents in Longview! We...

Went to Pizza King...






Played under PawPaw's table...




Tried to wake Daddy up from a serious nap...



Then as soon as we woke him up I got really tired...


Then we went out to eat at Fish City Grill...



On Sunday we headed out to Liberty City to see Ellie's great grandparents (technically great great Aunt and Uncle) Meme and Papaw and Ellie's other Meme (my Aunt Karen) and of course Ellie's Nona. We didn't get any pictures while we were there. :( We did get an "after" photo though.



Annnnnd Happy Labor Day to us, we ordered Ellie's big girl carseat!! After months of research, we went with the Britax Marathong G3. I'm so excited!


All in all a very productive weekend. Happy Labor Day y'all!

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