July, August and September 2009

First pictures of Ella's future sibling due in April 2010




Ella pretending to be Dina in a few months




She loves these sunglasses




Getting pushed around in the grocery cart

Cleaning the floors

Yelling at Lucy for getting her floors dirty

Taking her cleaning business on the road

Taking down baby prison

Nice day at the beach eating the sand

What baby doesn't love to run around the house with a bucket on their head?

More cleaning

Ready for bed

Very upset the paparazzi is in her room

Sitting in the toy box

Catching up on some reading while sitting in a tray

The playground and Ella looks so happy

Who knew a laundry basket could be so much fun?

The happy family

The Carroll family visited - Nick enjoyed the car

How many people does it take to change a diaper?

Getting ready for a night out

Singing

Making sure the plants are watered

Ella's first surfing lesson

She found an old wig from Halloween and we can't get her to take it off

She took the wig off, and now she's trying to put on makeup

More pictures from July:

Ella had her friend Nathan over to play



They had a nice dinner together...


Then a few drinks...


Which of course led to the bath together.



Tough day at the beach

Getting ready to go out to the pool

Lucy showing Ella how to go through the tunnel

A few dinner shots

She looks kind of like Jack Nicholson playing the joker.

Trip to Syracuse

Reading on the plane:



Dina playing Scrabble with Ally and Nick. We're not sure what Ella is doing.




Ella playing with cousin Zoe. Ella made her wear a matching bow:





Ella running from the larger-than-life Murphy:


The summer party at Aunt Susie's:

Ella's friend Katie reading to her:

Waiting for her big chance with the band:

Katie, Wendy and Aunt Lisa:

Playing with Aunt Sandy, Stephanie and Ruby. Apparently dogs are supposed to be over 50 lbs, so anything smaller than that is referred to as a "kitty" by Ella.

Running in Aunt Sandy's yard:

Random July Pictures

Here's a few pictures of Ella in July:



Doing her pilates before bed:




Settling into her new chair with a nice cold one:




We are convinced that Ella has found her calling and will end up with a career in the moving and/or package delivery industry. She loves to lift boxes, climb on boxes, push boxes around the house, and attempt to fit in her car while carrying boxes. We know, gotta dream big ...