Playing Catch Up!!

Sorry it has been so long since our last post. Ella is changing so fast and so much that it's hard to keep up! The last time I put pictures up, they were from Christmas and she had just learned to sit up on her own. Well sitting up is old news. She started "army" crawling and did so for almost a month. As of just last week she has started crawling on her hands and knees. She has also cut her first two teeth. One day we noticed them through her gums, then two days later they had cut through the skin. Boy are they sharp!!! Let's see what else is she doing...Oh yea, she claps her hands together when she gets excited or sees something she likes. She also makes this grunting sound. It reminds me a monster or baby demon but cute!! She squills when she sees Sam and makes the Dada sound. Sometimes it almost sounds like daddy, but I 'm sure we're just hearing what we want to. Then the coolest thing of all happened on Monday. For those that don't know we have been doing sign language with Ella. Probably not as consistent as we should be but apparently enough. So I was making her a bottle the other day and she started making the sign to me over and over again. At first I thought it was just a fluke, but every time she saw the bottle she would do it over and over! What a genius!! Wow, that was a lot of stuff.

As for me and Sam, we both just celebrated our 31st birthdays, and we are doing great. Sam's, girls basketball team is playing in the state final for the first time this weekend and the boys need to win two more games and they will be there for the first time as well. Wish them luck. Sam is getting ready to compete in his first Bar B Que cook off. He got a new smoker for his birthday, so I'm sure we'll be eating a lot of brisket and ribs in the weeks to come.

I recently joined two groups. The first is MOPS, which stands for Mothers of Preschoolers. We meet once a month and do fun things like make crafts and listen to speakers. It is great to finally meet some other moms in town and be able to have some adult conversation once in a while. (Thanks, Hilary for recommending it!) The other group is Kinder Moms and it's more for the kids. They schedule play dates during the month with different activities each time. So while the kids are playing the moms are talking and having a good time as well. Hopefully Sam and I can make some new friends. Well the boss lady is screaming at me so I need to go.