"Wee."

Snow White, the Evil Queen, & the Woodsman

We just went to our ward's trunk-or-treat.  Elea was still too young to really get what was going on- but at least she looked cute!  I was happy that Jeff was willing to dress-up with us.

I Love Cord-Uh-Roy

Kit: 'I love Cord-uh-Roy" by Sara Ellis & Connie Prince. Font: Angelina

!!! NEW Monday!!!! I Love Cord-Uh-Roy kit by Sara Ellis & Connie Prince @ Gotta Pixel.

What've I been up to lately?

Sherri Piegdon- "Urban Edge" kit, Shabby Princess- "promise" staple, & Loved by the King Font

Sherrie Piegdon- "This Girl" kit, joeshand2 font

Amie Collofello- "I Love Cupcakes", Font: Loved by the King

What was Elea up to the month of August?

1st Birthday Party Pics

Jordyn & Sam on the slide.

Katie Kate.

Annie.

Elea couldn't quite figure out why everyone was singing at her.

Grandpa O got her this cute little hat with her name monogrammed on the back.

Me & her. Obviously. (Notice the empty capri sun in her hand!)

After she got all messy in her cake I rinsed her off in the splashpad and ended up using her swim top as a washcloth so she was half nakey the rest of the party. The wind died down a little later and she actually wanted to walk around on her own.

Crawling!

Yesterday I pulled out my camera so that I could take a picture of Elea's latest signature move. If you've ever done yoga, it's very similar to the "downward dog" position. However, Elea has learned in her few short months that if a camera is out you should stare at it and get to it as fast as possible. Well, it just so happens that getting to the camera as fast as possible required crawling on hands and knees- not staying in one place doing her yoga pose. So I spent the next 20 minutes racing around the room trying to get her to crawl one way while I took pictures from the other way. It sort of worked.


Later, I was able to distract her long enough to get the yoga pose saved for posterity as well. If I had known that she would start legitimately crawling when I pulled out the camera, I would have done that a week ago when my mom was here!

Alligator Crawl

When I started taking pictures of her she caught sight of the string hanging from my camera. That's what she was focused on until I blocked her with my foot.




Elea can get wherever she wants to go these days. She hasn't progressed passed rocking on her hands and knees but it definitely hasn't stopped her from moving around!

. . . and yes, even Divas have bad hair days.

Guess we're back to the sleeping bag jammies . . .

Picture explanation: We had a crib bumper on her crib but she moves around A TON in her crib. Actually, she moves around A TON all the time. After a few times of finding her with her face smashed into the crib bumper we decided to take it out. I'd rather her tweak her arm or leg then suffocate. (One's permanent, the other isn't). So, that's why we took the crib bumper off. But after the first few nights/naps she figured it out and now I have blankets shoved along the edge of the crib so she can't push her binkie out onto the floor as easily.

6 months.

Milestones:
On Sunday I was asking my MIL if she thought that Elea made sounds like a normal baby. Because up to that point, she very rarely made any noise at all, except for when she cried and the sound "geee".
Jeff thinks she heard me "talking trash," because starting Monday morning she has become way more vocal. When she gets frustrated she gets almost loud. It's pretty funny. Her noises have grown in variety too. She doesn't "babble" much except for when she has her binky in.

I feel like she's almost been trained in a "Pavlov's dogs" sort of way. Whenever we click our tongues on the roof of our mouths, she smiles. For about 2 seconds. And then goes straight faced again.

All of a sudden she likes to sleep on her back. It's weird. It's going to look awesome if she rubs a bald spot on the back of her head.

She spends a lot of time on her tummy on the floor. We spread some toys all around a big blanket and she scoots around to play with them. By scooting I mean that she draws her knees up under her and then tries to move forward on her face. Usually it just results in moving away from what she is trying to get to instead of making progress towards it. But now she's figured out that she can just reach out and grab the blanket in front of her and pull her arm back and it brings the toy to her.

She can roll from her tummy onto her back but hasn't really figured out how to get back to her tummy again (on purpose at least).

She's starting to understand peek-a-boo and actually smiles instead of just looking at me like I'm a complete idiot.

Elea's 1st Christmas

Elea 4 months old

Angie chastised me for mentioning taking Elea's picture the other day but not posting any of them. . . . So here are a few.

About 2 seconds after I took this picture she flopped herself over onto her back. That's only happened 3 times that I know about and the only time I have actually seen her do it.

She's already learning how to pose.

The past 2 weeks in pictures

My mom and I stopped at my Aunt Maxine's before we left the Uintah Basin on Sunday the 26th. Elea didn't find us nearly as funny as we found ourselves.

How we spent our Halloween: Elea loves to sit straight up so we got her this bumbo chair. She loves it. Especially now that she has figured out how to twist herself sideways so that she can gnaw on the sides of it.

I guess I lied when I said she wasn't cross eyed anymore.

With Grandpa Sullivan.

Check out Jeff's new pearly whites!