Elliot likes to read!

Here is Elliot reading Daddy a story. 

Mother's Day

As Elliot and I (Daddy) were looking at our planners a couple of months ago, we both had Sunday, May 10th circled as a day that we wanted to make extra special for Mommy.  So we hatched a big plan to make it the best day ever.  We went to church Saturday night so that we could let Mommy sleep in on Sunday morning.  Daddy got up with Elliot and Mommy slept...  And slept, and then slept some more.  I think it was around 10:30 - 11 that she finally found her way out of the bed room.  We got around and headed to Southlake Town Square and Sunshine Glaze.  Elliot and I decided that we needed to let Mommy tap into her inner artist and have some fun painting pottery.

Here is Mommy painting!

Elliot and Daddy watching...

After we were done painting, we headed to the center of the Town Square and to the fountain.  Elliot loved the fountain!  She loves her bath and loves water and she had a blast.  We even let her put her hand in one of the fountains.  She was soaked, but she loved it!

Check out my tennies

Happy Mother's Day Mommy!

Sweet Girl

Elliot putting her hand in the fountain and getting really wet

Her wet little face

After the fountain, we hit up a few stores, including Janie and Jack ($$$).  Mommy loves this store, Daddy, not so much...  We found some cute birthday outfits, so now she will be stylin' for her first birthday.  

Who is that movie star?

After we got back from shopping, we gave Mommy her present...  It was a Shark Steam Mop!  Now, if you think that Jennie was sad to get a mop on Mother's Day, then you don't know Jennie, she spent Sunday night playing with her new mop and mopping the kitchen!  It was a special day for Jennie and Elliot and I were glad that we got to share it with her!  We love you Mommy!

Now, here are some random fun pictures...

Holla!

Standing up all by herself!

Silly Face

Having fun playing!

Here are a few pictures from the last couple of months.  From Elliot's Baby Dedication in February, to a trip to Amarillo in March, and Easter in April, with some cute pictures thrown in...

Elliot practicing standing up

This Easter Egg is yummy!

Elliot in her Easter dress

Sorry this picture is out of order, but this is of her Dedication at church in February.

Back to Easter...  Check out her Easter present.  Elliot's first baseball glove!

Pretty Girl

Crazy Girl

We went to Amarillo in March just in time for Mia to be born!

More Amarillo pics, Elliot being sweet with a teddy bear.

Big Girl

Elliot is getting really big and really mobile.  Here is a video to show just how big she has gotten.  She has an extensive bag of tricks that we tried to get her to show you, but she wasn't really interested.  She can't know that she is being recorded, if she does, she just hams it up.  So enjoy the video, more pictures (and possibly another video coming tomorrow).

So Sorry...

That we haven't updated in a while.  As most of you know, my job revolves around a certain baseball team whose season just started a couple of weeks ago, so we haven't felt up to blogging.  Plus, we have been crazy busy with work and company.  But the Rangers are on the road (and just took down Roy Halladay and the Blue Jays tonight!), so I will try to catch up on blogging this week.  

Here is a quick update on how big our little girl has gotten...

She is 9 and 1/2 months!  At her 9 month check up she was 50th percentile in height and weight.  She goes to bed at 7 pm and wakes up at 7 am.  Mommy and Daddy love that last sentence...

She is crawling now.  Uncle Ryan (who posted some Elliot pics on his blog) was here this weekend and he described her technique as "ninja style" because she stays low so she can sneak up on people.  She hasn't mastered the crawling on all fours yet, but she is a fast little army crawler...

She is also pulling up and one of Mommy's diamond earrings almost made an interesting gastrointestinal journey.  She left them on the coffee table thinking they were safe, only to turn around and see Elliot pulled up on the coffee table with said earring in hand.  We also had to lower the crib so she wouldn't fall out.  (See why we can't blog!  We are too busy putting the house on lock down...)

She is compiling a bag of tricks...  Waving bye-bye, blowing kisses, and trying to copy our voice inflections.  She also makes a "cute face" and it gets laughs, so of course it continues.  I will try to capture some of these things so you can see them.

Until then, here are some pictures from today...  Can't get more up-to-date than that!

Bath Time!

Our little girl is turning blonde!

Extreme Close Up

Little Ninja

Fun Stuff

Haven't had the time or energy to do the dedication blog, so here is some fun quick hit pictures and a video...

A Day in the Park

On Sunday, the sun was out, the weather was nice, so we decided to pack up and walk to the park.  Mommy and Daddy packed a lunch and then packed up the baby and were off to the park.  Having finally figured out how to play music in our awesome jogging stroller, we hooked up the ipod turned on some tunes and started out on the 1/2 mile walk to the park.  Here are some pictures of what happened once we got there...

Elliot getting her first opportunity to sit on burning hot rubber...

She seemed fine with it...

Daddy and Elliot

Mommy and Elliot

Elliot's first trip down the slide

After a hard day of playing, it was time to head home...

Just after we started walking home, this is what we found in the stroller.

Poor little lamb, all tuckered out...

So as you can see, it was a fun family day and we were all worn out by the time it was over.  We are looking forward to summer time so we can walk to the pool and work on our tans!

Tomorrow we will post pictures from Elliot's dedication at church...