Deer Classic

I don't have my pictures uploaded yet from Friday but Ella sure enjoyed her first Deer Classic. She met Lee and Tiffany Lakosky and got a t-shirt and sweatshirt signed by them. :) She also meet Pat Reeves and Nicole Jones. Nicole loved her! She asked to hold her and then asked if she could take her picture and post it on her website. I will post a link when she has Ella on there. How cool is that.

Ella really enjoyed seeing all the bright lights and people and seemed to really be staring at the bucks and antlers. We had a family picture taken with a 7 week old bear cub! Rob of course wanted to keep it! Ella was like whatever..... I promise to post pictures sometime this week.

On a side note - Ella has slept through the night for 2 nights in a row! :) That's my girl.

Cold...

I think Ella and I have colds! Bummer...we both have runny noses.... wishing I could just stay home and cuddle with her all day. This working 5 days straight is hard stuff. :) Can you tell it's my first full week back to work??

Mom is coming down to watch Ella today they should have fun. Rob took the day off to go look for antlers. Crazy if you ask me...he will be the next one sick walking around outside in this weather. But I can't ground him he is older them me!

We are going to take Ella to the MN Deer Classic tomorrow that should be fun. :) Rob is really looking forward to showing off his little girl in her camo dress. - I will snap some pictures and post them this weekend or early next week.

Repeat Luck...No!

Well no such repeat luck on sleeping through the night! Ella was extremely tired all day yesterday slept most of the morning for Dad and then slept a bunch at daycare and also slept almost all evening for me. It was just sleeping and eating for little miss Ella bug. I think she is in a growth spurt!

She slept okay last night it wasn't that she wanted to play or anything she just was hungry every few hours. Rob feed her at 1 and then I was up again at 3:30. She has an awful runny nose too. No fever but lots of snot! She might have a little bit of a cold going on.

My other big news is.....I can't find my umbrella and it's going to rain the rest of the week! UGH!!

Picture Update

Check out our little chubbers! She is such a cutie isn't she? We just had to get a 'naked' picture! Ella sitting in her Bumbo chair - Gary and Arlene gave her this! I think she is going to LOVE it!

Daddy and Ella at the MOA - Underwater world - she was by the turtle tank I think...

She didn't stay awake long though.... the fish put her right to sleep! Good thing we have that year long membership.

Ah! This shopping is too easy.... Just push me around and I will sleep..

Sleep

Ella slept all night last night!! First time. We actually were worried she was going to sleep at all! She slept in on Sunday morning then we went shopping in the afternoon and she slept the entire time we were out and about...we didn't get home and wake her up until 6:30!! We did keep her up until 10 last night though - that might have helped - Either way it was a nice surprise to wake up this morning at 4:30 feed her and then get ready for work.

Mice
Okay my other story is our mice. I had a deck box on our deck that I used to keep all my bird seed in. I say used to because it's gone now! Last week I found a mouse in my bird food and Rob went to take care of it this weekend and found a whole family of them!! I swear I could have won $10K if I would have video taped it! Picture this. Rob, Abby and Moose out on the deck - mice literally running everywhere...like 10 of them!! And all three of them trying their best to catch them!! Oh boy was it something to watch. They got them all ( I think....) Abby still wants to just hang out outside looking for mice now. Moose caught the most! EEEEEWWW is all I have to say! Me and Ella stayed in the house and watched through the door. Needless to say we threw away all that bird seed that was spilled all over and my entire deck box!

Looking forward to the weekend

My first day back to work went really good, it sure flew by fast! Before I knew it the clock said 4 and I was racing home to see Ella! She enjoyed her first day with Dad and Quincy (her daycare provider) I felt bad for Quincy. I guess right before I got there she had put Ella in an activity center and she freaked out at the toys so when I got there she was crying. I imagine it's like taking your car to the mechanic. It makes noise all the way there and then stops and with kids they are good all day long and then cry right when Mom gets there! I have no doubt she had fun there before that though! She is going to love hanging out with all the other kids for a couple of hours each day.

I did miss seeing my pretty little smile from her though. Maybe next week she will greet me with a smile when I pick her up!

We have a busy weekend this weekend. I am hopefully going to see my brother and sister in law and nephews on Sat during the day and then a neighborhood get together on Sat night. Whew and then maybe just complete Ella and Mommy time on Sunday like all day long!!

Rob will be out in the woods looking for antlers hopefully he finds some more fast his party is coming up soon! They had a bad day at work yesterday for Rob 18 people lost their jobs and 12 had to take a pay cut or be moved to a different position. We could see it coming though there just wasn't enough work. Luckily Rob was fine and will see no changes.

I better get headed to work soon - Take care and I will blog more next week.

Back to work

Well it's back to work for me today! I am excited and nervous. I know that Daddy and Ella will be just fine and that my day will go by fast since I have so much catching up to do - not only work but also just life updates with co-workers.

Ella is 2 months old today! She is doing great - she woke up with smiles and giggles for Mom today! That certainly helped me start my day the right way! She had her doctor's visit on Tuesday of this week. She grew almost 2 inches she is now 20 3/4" long and she is up to 10lbs and 12 oz!! That's my girl!! Her height is still really low % but her weight is now in the 50% category. So that's good. I like to think she is just unique!!

I promise to do better with the blog now that I am back to the real world and have access to a computer on a more regular basis. I am going to make this a routine to feed Ella and put her back down to sleep and then quickly blog before work!

Time to go! I will get more pictures on here soon. I have updated Facebook more regularly - feel free to send me a friend request to view Ella's pictures on there.