Here comes Trouble with a capital T!!!!!!

Little miss is now little miss trouble! She has officially learned to crawl up the steps on her own!!! Kevin and I were having a blast watching her work her little bum up the steps with a determined face. We would try not to laugh at her when she would get frustrated and throw her head back in disgust but it was just too cute to see her little personality come out. That was this past Sunday, now she is a regular pro and always goes over to climb the steps. She gets so excited when she accomplishes her goal.



Also, another little miss trouble moment happens when we put her in the playpen. She immediately stands up and gives us beady eyes…so funny to see these little eyes peaking over the rail as if to say, “Hey I am over here! Can’t you see me???” If we don’t pay attention to her she proceeds to pick her toys up out of the playpen and throw them across the room. Again, we tried not to laugh at her because it would make her want to do this more and more but it was too cute.

Oh and then poor Vader is still getting the brunt of it all. Ellia has discovered the sliding screen door leading to our back deck. We had Vader out there this past weekend and he was so confused because he thought Ellia was going to let him in but she was just playing with the screen. You can see his frustration in one of the pictures where he is pressing his snout up against the glass.

And then there is the sticker incident!!! I got these smiley face Santa hat stickers with some junk mail and Daddy thought it would be fun to decorate our child. Oh man did our stomachs hurt from laughing at her expressions when we started sticking them on her. The best was when we put some on her ears like earrings. She looks like an old lady with big jewelry…. Ha-ha… Hope these pictures brighten up your day as much as they did ours.

11 Months!!!!!

Yesterday, Ellia turned 11 months old! Only one more month to go until she turns one!!!! Within the last couple of weeks she has managed to pull herself up in her crib and she also started crawling. She still does some scooting but the crawling is becoming her new favorite. Her hair is growing in more and more as well as some teeth! We have been busy chasing her around the house and even at church, as she no longer sits still for anything. Hopefully I will not be posting in the next couple of weeks that she is walking on her own!!! I don’t know if I am ready for that yet. Here are some shots of her in action.


Nana and Papa Angelo got her a 1st Halloween Sleeper and it makes her look like a jail bird. She even acts the part when she crawls over to her baby gate, stands up and proceeds to pull back and forth on the gate so it makes noise. I still have to figure out what she will be for Halloween. Some ideas in the running – A ballerina, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, or a cow girl.. hmmm….



This past weekend we hung out with Nana and Papa Angelo. Papa Angelo is leaving for 4 months to Indianapolis for work. He will be home every other weekend but we will miss him. I know Nana will need even more visits from Ellia now. Ellia kept Papa busy walking her around the house and she is fascinated by facial features now too so she was trying to pull Papa’s eyebrows off his face and get his teeth out of his mouth. Good thing he still has all of his own teeth in there!!!! We will keep you posted on the Halloween costume dilemma!