New Toy

Ellie is loving her new jumpy toy!

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Rawr!!!

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Day 2

Muuuuuuuch better day today. Got to daycare early and Ellie was having a good time again. Though it's not my favorite course of action, daycare isn't really that bad at all.


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Day Care

Well my Mom is no longer able to watch Ellie during the day so Casey and I had to make the extremely difficult decision to put Eleanor into daycare for the remaining 11 days of school. I woke up this morning at my normal time of 4:30 and immediately started crying. I woke Ellie up, fed her, and then put her back to sleep while I got ready and packed her things. I wasn't even this distraught when I left her for the first time, but something about handing over your baby to a stranger to care for her for 8+ hours is very unnerving. Don't get me wrong, the people at her school are lovely, but it was just very difficult for me to do. Casey and I dropped her off and I headed off to work bawling my eyes out for most of the day. Luckily there was a lovely fire scare at our school today which served as a distraction. Geez. And I thought Mondays were bad, enter the Tuesday from hell. Anyway, I made it through the day and Eleanor had a great time at school. I picked her up and she was giggling and smiling the rest of the afternoon. Here is a picture of her playing at daycare. Summer break cannot come fast enough.



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HOUSE!

We bought a house!!  No details yet, but we close on June 5th and we are SO excited!!

4 months!

Eleanor turned 4 months last Friday and we've been so busy that I'm just now getting time to post about it.  I cannot believe she's already 4 months old.  In this short amount of time we have learned so much about Ellie. 

We know that:

• She hates being held like a baby unless she's nursing
• She loves being "flown" around by her Daddy like Superwoman
• She's becoming a lot more aware of her surroundings and of things going on around her
• She absolutely hates being in her car seat
• No matter how hard we try, she HAS to be swaddled when she sleeps (don't know how we're going to break her of that habit
• She LOVES her "Dolly" that her Nona got her
• She loves when we make silly sounds or sing silly songs to her

We are also becoming aware of the fact that she is very strong... and strong willed.  When she wants something she fights for it.  Wants to be held a different way?  Strains until we move her.  Wants to watch the TV?  Wrenches her neck until she can see it.  Wants to stand up instead of be held?  Cries and makes her body go stiff until we let her.  We are in for an interesting 18+ years, but we wouldn't have it any other way.  We love that little girl more than we could ever possibly put into words.  Here are a few pictures of the always beautiful Eleanor.

Our happy girl at 4 months!

 Love those big baby blues!

 Our two "firsts".  Our first "son" and our first daughter.

 And then there's this...

We all know that Eleanor is an extremely adorable, photogenic baby, but there are always bad pictures.  This is by far the funniest. 

 Ellie's Auntie Bakes (Sara Baker) says it reminds her of this:

Baby's First Easter

Ellie's First Easter weekend was spent with her mama, daddy, Pop, Grandma, Nona, and PawPaw!  We had a great time at the church carnival on Saturday:

Then a wonderful Easter Sunday was spent at Trinity Lutheran Church followed by Easter dinner at Grammie and Pop's.  Ellie had a beautiful dress on.  A very beautiful dress.  Then of course she had a blowout RIGHT before picture taking time and we had to change her.  That was the first fail of the day.  I was literally in tears over this.  As a mom it is MY job to make sure all the firsts are documented and now we have ZERO pictures of her in her first Easter dress.  :(   BUT - Casey's mom, AKA Grammie, came to the rescue with an adorable outfit for Ellie.  We put her in it and got Chad from next door to take pictures with Casey's dad's fancy camera.  Luckily I also asked Casey's dad to take pictures of the three of us because low and behold - fail #2 - the pictures Chad was taking weren't really taken.  I guess he didn't hold the button down far enough.  :(

Even though there isn't a ton of pictures from the day, we still had a wonderful time at church (what an AMAZING service Trinity had) and a nice Easter dinner with the family.