RANDOMNESS!

Ella has developed a love for hats...especially this pink hat (thanks again Hayley, it's so darn cute!) She saw her daddy wearing his hat and decided she wanted to be just like him! So now she must have her hat on all the time, if it falls off she runs over to me so that I can put it back on for her! It's so funny and sweet how she wants to be like daddy!



Not only does she like wearing hats but she's been liking trying other things like this old bandana that i found in one of our boxes. She was a hard core/cleaning woman baby for a little while.





She started doing this really big "Cheese" face when I would tell her to look at the camera, it was so cute!



Silly little funny face!



There's nothing i can say to really prepare you for this picture and the next... the fact of the matter is Ella found her nose and she thought it was pretty cool!



It was so hard to keep from laughing... I didn't want her to think its funny to stick your fingers up your nose but it was just so dang hilarious!



These pictures are from when the Sewells came down again for 4th of July. We went out to dinner and of course our two little monkeys were putting on a show!





Having a blast smearing noodles and sauce all over the place!



Doing her "cheese" face again!



After dinner we went bowling and kept the two wanderers in the stroller. They had a pretty good time hanging out together.



This picture is another random, fun meal time experience with Ella. Not exactly sure how it happened since Chad was the one there "watching" her eat but it is pretty funny to say the least!



She seems a little confused as to how milk is dripping from out of nowhere... she's always so inventive with food!

Summer Days!

Ella bella is quite the little character. Pretty much everyone that meets her tells us that she has so much personality! She is very social and will go up to anyone and try to make friends.
Church has been quite the experience because she's still too young to go to nursery and trying to keep her on my lap and out of getting into everyone else's purse is a feat i have yet to conquer! Three more months and nursery here we come...Mommy and Daddy are excited to actually hear a lesson again, haha ;0)!



Cheesin' it for the camera.



Watching her FAVORITE show Sesame street...she loves Elmo the most!





Ok so we are at the stage where little tantrums throughout the day are a regular occurrence...I think I had taken my cell phone away from her so that I could call someone and Ella just wasn't having that due to the fact that she believes whole-heartedly that all cell phones are her personal toy that adults are just stealing from her! As you can see she was pretty upset (i couldn't help chuckling a little because it was just such a sad pathetic face)...



Still upset she pauses to look at the camera for a picture...



And then after a happy distraction of playing patty-cake, everything is a-ok!



Mom saves the day yet again!



And we're still buddies no matter what!



These were taken on one of our daily walks around the apartment complex... I love it because you can see her little "sponge-bob squarepants"gapped two front teeth! ( I stole your saying Kelsey- I thought it was a good one and very fitting!) Plus she's got her lovely sweaty bangs because anytime your outside here you can't help but sweat!





The other day we had a huge thunderstorm with crazy hard/heavy rain which didn't last too long which was good, but I'm still trying to get used to the pretty much daily "flash-flood" style rainstorm that we have here in Houston. We took Ella outside as the rain started to die down and let her run around in the puddles, which she LOVED!



Chad was helping her make big splashes in the puddle!



She had a blast!



She would just run up and down this big ol' puddle...





Chad had to get in on the action too!



We have some good times in the rain and puddles but some of the storms have been a bit scary! Just as a rainstorm had started, Chad went out to go get himself a rain poncho at Walmart before he went out to work and when he went to leave Walmart the rain had flooded so much that water was up to the almost the side windows on cars that had gotten stuck in it...so inevitably Chad had to wait for the water to drain away and was stuck there for two hours because it was just way too crazy to try to drive in! Oh yea not too mention where we live is in a flood plain...so like every week at church they scare the beegeebees out of me telling us to be prepared for what "could" happen! Hopefully we don't have to worry about any hurricane type stuff this summer though- Keep your fingers crossed!

The ZOO!

A couple of weeks ago we went to the Houston Zoo for the day...it was a lot of fun but it was so HOT and HUMID!



Random monkey that Ella enjoyed...actually she loved EVERYTHING we saw...each time we left one cage to go on to the next she would start to cry because she didn't want to leave and we would have to explain to her that we were going to see something else...she didn't really get it until we got to the next animal and she would be happy all over again. Such a silly girl!



There was this little water park for kids there which Ella ended up loving but at first she was a little apprehensive and I had to pull her into the water.



After she started to get wet she really enjoyed it, probably cause it was nice to get cooled off from that sun and humidity.



When we went to leave she was not a happy camper but...



we got her excited all over again when she got to go to the petting zoo...



At first she liked going up to each goat and petting it...







but after a little while i think she got a little freaked out by the goats and when we were trying to get her to pet one, she started to act as if it wasn't even there and would run off to do something else like try to pick up goat poo.



Next we took her to the kiddie park that was there and she had a blast.



The slide was great but a little tight for Daddy!



Ella singing while we played the little piano.



She just got a kick out of this little piano and was entertained for quite a long time.



By the end of our trip we were feeling much like this giraffe...EXHAUSTED! ( This poor giraffe seemed so depressed there...he kept laying his head on this stump as if he had no hope...ok maybe i'm a little dramatic but seriously why would he be doing that except for the reason of being totally depressed with his confined Zoo life? :)

Super-Baby!

It's bird....it's a plane...no it's SUPER BABY!

Our Little fishy!

Ella loves to go swimming here at the pool at our apartment complex in Houston.



As you can see there is one side of the pool that is sort of a beach style architecture which Ella loves because she gets to be independent and walk around in the water.





Ella and her buddy!



Pulling hair is fun to do, fun to do, fun to do...



So happy to be out of the house!



Little Miss Mischief!



This is a random picture but it was too darn cute not to post! For once she was sitting still and just snuggling...only because she was tired, oh well we'll take it where we can get it!



Ella wanted to bring her bunny to bed with her and so I let her and as you can tell she likes to be right there cuddled up with it!