Ella had a great time at the Halloween party on Friday and so did the rest of us. We all danced (well, most of us did. The guys didn’t). There was tons of food, drink, and good fellowship. We didn’t win the costume contest, but we had a great time anyway. Here are some pictures for you to enjoy.

Ella's First Halloween Costume

Auntie Amber wanted to get Ella her first Halloween costume so we all (me, Ella, Amber, and Regina) went to Halloween Express and got her costume today after work. There's a costume party tomorrow night at one of the lawyers offices here in town that Regina works with a lot. We won the costume contest last year and I'm hoping that Ella can pull out a win this year. The 1st place prize is a portable DVD player. That would be so great to have so she could watch movies in the car. Here are a couple of pictures of our cute little "Wiggle Worm".

Ella's Hard Day at Work

Ella is the official office mascot now. She has been so good at the office. Everyone takes turns holding and loving on her. Amber is her new snuggle buddy. I think that she would sleep on Amber all day long if she could. Uncle Tom and Auntie Lo took her to the bathroom for her first "flushing" yesterday. Tom doesn't like to throw food that smells in the trash can so he flushes it down the toilet. This was Ella's first time to get to flush some food with her peeps. Everyone pitches in helps take care of her and she LOVES all the attention. She's a monkey!! Here's a few pics for your enjoyment!

My Lil' Pumpkin

Ella is so cute. I mean...she's really, really cute. Sometimes I really wonder how Jon and I could have possibly made a child this cute. Anyway..enough of my bragging. Auntie Leslie gave her this really cute outfit and she wore it for the first time today. I am so excited that it's started getting cooler so I can pull out all of her cute fall clothes. Here are a couple of pictures

On another note, I went to the doctor today about my neck. I was having a lot of pain that would turn to numbness and it seems that I have something called Torticollis. Instead of having the normal curve at my neck mine is stick straight. He gave me a shot and some meds and hopefully it will resolve itself soon. I'm going to my orthopedic doctor on the 31st. I just went to a walk-in clinic today.

Enjoy the pics

Trip to Meme and Granddaddy's

We got home today from our trip to Childersburg for Meme's birthday. We had so much fun and Ella really enjoyed getting to spend time with Mom and Dad. She's so rotten! Aunt Gip had mom a little birthday luncheon on Thursday and it was really nice. We had a good time just sitting around and talking. Here are some pictures from the trip. I'm also including some pictures of the "Baby Faux-hawk" that Jon likes to give Ella. He thinks she looks really cute when we do her hair like that. I think she's pretty cute no matter how she wears her hair.

Poor Ella

So....evidently it is simply torturous for my child to be in a picture with me. We don't have any pictures of me and Ella together since the professional ones that we had made so I decided to get Jon to take a few candids of us together. She looks terrified or simply ticked off in all of them. See for yourself.....

Doesn't she look thrilled to be in the picture with me. She always smiles when she's in pictures with her daddy.....(bitter, party of one.....)

Kids.....

Uncle Jason, COME HOME!!!!!

Dear Uncle Jason,
Please come home. Mommy and Daddy are so boring. We went to eat tonight and you didn't get to go with us. It was yucky. I'm 13 weeks old today and I haven't seen you in a week. That's like 5 years in baby time...so come home already.

Love and best wishes,
Ella

Ella's First Day at Work

Ella had her first day at work today!! Regina asked me to help out a little at the office while her assistant was out of town and Ella went along with me. She did so well. I was very proud of her. It was so nice to be back at the office. It was great to see everyone and be able to help out some. It was really nice to be able to take Ella Boo with me too. She got lots of attention so of course she enjoyed it. I didn't realize how much I missed everyone at the office and how good it felt to do some work with grownups. Not that being a mom isn't work, cause it definitely is, but it's nice to do some other things too. I missed all my peeps!!

Here are a few pictures that I've taken in the past couple of days. I was trying to take a picture of her the other day and every time the flash went off she made her eyes SUPER big. The first picture is one of about 5 that I took and in all of them she made her eyes huge The other ones are of my little angel when she fell asleep on the couch tonight. She was very tired from her first day of work.

12 Weeks Old Today

Miss Ella is 12 weeks old today. I can't believe it. It has flown by so fast. She is such a good baby. I could just squeeze her to death!! She had her checkup today and had to get her shots....3 to be exact. It was horrible. She cried like I have never heard her cry before.....and I cried with her. The doctor said that she was looking great. She's 23.5 inches long (19.5 at birth) and she now weighs 12 lbs 4 oz (7 lbs 6 oz at birth). He checked her eyes and said that she's tracking with them really well. He said that was great because you usually don't see that in babies until they are about 5 months old. Our baby is a GENIUS!!! When you walk by her she will turn her head to follow you. She's so smart!! (she must get that from her daddy).

I can't believe how much our lives have changed in 12 weeks and how normal this new life seems now. She's sleeping through the night now and she's smiling and laughing. I tell ya, her laugh is one thing that I could hear over and over again and never get tired of. It's the cutest little belly laugh. I can't imagine our life without her. My favorite thing about this whole adventure has been watching Jon with her. I swear I fall more in love with him everyday. She adores him and smiles so big when he talks to her. He is the most wonderful father and husband. He surprises me a little more everyday. I feel very blessed. Here are few pictures of Ella from

today.

Ella's bandaid's after her shots.

Here she is in her Bumbo seat. She's still a little bit of a bobble head, but she's getting better.

Emme and Ella

Leslie and Emme just left a little while ago. We miss them already. Emme was quite the little helper when it came to putting Ella's pacifer back in her mouth..although sometimes it hit the eye instead, she was trying. Me and Les had a fabulous time together, as always. We shopped and made hairbows and did all kinds of other girly things with the babies. We found some great deals at an AWESOME children's consignment store her in Huntsville. It's called Twice Upon a Time and I LOVE it.

Jason is leaving tomorrow to go to Orlando for work for 3-5 weeks. I don't know what we're going to do without him being here. Yuck! I told him that we would update the blog everyday and put new pictures up of Ella Boo. She'll be about 16 weeks old the next time we see him.

Here are some pictures of the girls together.