Guess what!!!!

"First comes love then comes marriage then comes THE BABY in the baby carriage...."

For all of you who don't know yet the Henkel family is adding a new addition to our family! I am due on the 14th of January!
And on the 21ist of august we went and got an ultrasound and found out that we're having a baby BOY!!
Both Chad and I had the feeling that it was going to be a boy but as time came closer and closer to finding out what we were having we got so nervous to find out if our feeling was right! Chad said in jest that if God loves us he'll give us a boy! So you can imagine the excitement Chad had when we found out!
The funniest thing was that our little buddy was not shy at all in showing us his manhood, keeping his legs completely spread eagle, he made it very obvious to everyone that we are 100% having a boy!





His cute little profile!



Little foot



Another profile shot (this one is kinda blurry but the bigger oval in the middle is the side of his head which leads down to his chest)



One of the 3D shots it was so crazy to be able to see him a little more realistically even if it was only for only a few seconds!



In the video you can see his little skeletor face looking straight at the ultrasound camera and his little arm is resting up against his head. It was so cool to be able to really see what is going on down there inside of my belly! The doctor said that everything looked good with him and that he looks healthy. So we are just really thankful and excited! It is crazy how much sooner I have felt this baby move inside of me compared to Ella. I swear he is such a little wiggler and i have been feeling him kick since around 17 weeks and with Ella i didn't feel her till like 22 weeks! I loved getting the ultrasound because it just gives us something to be able to get to know this baby a little more and make things more personal now that we know that it's a boy. Now we can start thinking of boy names! If anyone has any good ideas let us know! We have a few we kinda like but we're really not sold on any one yet.

The joy of a faucet...

So it all started out as a normal dinner time and as usual Ella got incredibly messy...





she tried blackberries for the first time and loved them!



So instead of even trying to haul her messy little body to the tub I just decided to throw her in the kitchen sink to clean off.



And Ella found the greatest toy she has ever beheld...the faucet!



She thought it was the best thing ever holding her hand over the water spraying out which in turn made the water squirt everywhere! It was so cute because she was just cracking up every time she could get it to squirt!

Good stuff...

Good times playing in a laundry basket with her buddies the stuffed animals.







Last week I went to my parents house in Boise and here are a few pictures i took while we were there. (Unfortunately there were so much more fun stuff that we did but my camera battery died so I didn't get to take much!)

Ella days...

Everyday Ella and I go on a walk around our apartment complex and a couple of weeks ago I tried having a little photo shoot of El and I found that without a good camera with fast shutter speed it's hard to catch all of her funny expressions...so here are some that we're kinda worked out from our excursion!

Trying to take a good picture of Ella "On the go" is like trying to catch a fly with chopsticks...only the karate kid could do it!



Playing peek-a-boo through the bars.





She just had to take a taste!



As soon as I told her not to lick the bars it was a game to try to lick it as much as she could before I could stop her!





Why not take a bite?



Being real tough!





She would barely turn around long enough for my camera to catch her face!



Blowing raspberries!



Being silly...



Kissy face.



Trying to travel down the stairs in the most dangerous way possible...



Cheesin it!



These were taken another day while Ellie and I were playing together in her room with her car.







Ella is a fun playmate, we always end up having an exciting time!

All Pretty!

The other day Ella and I were playing with her toys and I thought it would be fun to play "dress up" So I put all her little toy rings on as bracelets and gave her a pretty necklace and she loved it! Every time one of the "bracelets" would fall off she would go "uh uh" and hold it up for me to put it back on her! Some day we'll upgrade to real bracelets and maybe some kind of frilly princess dress but for now she loved her play "bling"!



And of course she couldn't be a all dressed up without her new constant companion the pink hat!

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!