Ellee's listening skills

Ok, yes I realize I have been MIA again! Sorry about that! ;)

However,I thought this was worth making the effort to blog about!

Saturday evening Ellee was having some trouble listening. We were sitting at the dinner table and she was putting her fork in her cup of milk. After repeatedly asking her to stop we asked her, "Ellee where are your listening skills?" To which she replied without missing a beat, "They're at Grandmom's house."

Shayne and I could not stop laughing! Where does she come up with these things?? She is ALWAYS making us laugh!

So today, when I dropped her off at my Mom's, Ellee's "listening skills" were waiting at the door for her! So stinking funny! I love my mom!!! :)

puddle stompin'

Yesterday, when I checked the mail there was a special treat addressed to Miss Ellee!  Auntie Emily & Uncle Jason had sent her a package!  Ellee got so excited!  Inside she found a new rain coat and a Nike fleece jacket! SO CUTE!  She was especially excited about the rain coat!  She LOVES playing in the rain!  So of course we had to put the rain coat on and take it for a test drive! : )

Headed out!

 Stomp, Stomp!

 Having so much fun! : )

 LOVE my Ellee!

Here is some video!  It is hard to hear her, but she is singing, "I can playing my puddle, I can playing my puddle"!

giggling "boinks"

2 1/2 year old Runway Diva

It's Ellee's half birthday today!!!  She is 2 and a half!!!  Crazy how our little baby girl is growing up so fast!  She has learned and developed so much in the last 6 months!!!  She amazes us more and more every day and we couldn't imagine our lives with out her!

She loves to pull out my shoes and model them around the house!

Snapped these photos of her this morning! :)

dinner time snooze.

No nap yesterday = Ellee trying oh so hard not to fall asleep at the dinner table!

This went on for probably a good half hour!!  Too funny!

ellee's "tandy" house

I was in Costco with my Mom last week and they had their Ginger Bread Houses out!  I had to snag one.  This is the first year that Ellee is old enough to do stuff like this!  So much fun!
Last Thursday after we saw Santa, I brought the Ginger Bread House out for her to decorate.  She got so excited when she saw all the candy!  She spent a good hour and a half decorating.  And of course half of it ended up getting eaten before it even made it onto the house! Best ten bucks I've spent in a while! :)  Here are some snapshots of the decorating process!

 decorating "tandy" houses take so much concentration!

 so proud of her finished house!

Maternity Photos

Okay, Okay!  It has been a while!!  We have been Busy with a CAPITAL B!!  Between all the birthdays in June and well the arrival of our little man Tucker it has been hard to sit down and blog!  So, I'm going to try and play catchup!  I guess I will start with Tucker's maternity photos.  Here are some of my favs!

 one of my all time favorite photos of the 2 of us!

 sweet ellee kisses.

 love this face!

It was so hard to pick just a few to be my favorites!  Pat Thomas at Gig Harbor Photography did an amazing job!  If you want to see a few more photos go HERE!

37 & 38 weeks!

I guess her hands were cold...

I went into check on Ellee before I went to bed last night and found her like this...

Her new this is saying: "Sup Dude".  It is the cutest thing ever!  Shayne said she put the mittens on before getting in her crib and kept saying "Sup Dude".  She is such a character and makes us laugh everyday!!! : )

Mowing with Daddy.

Last week we had one of those rare sunny days and Shayne decided to take advantage and mow the lawn. Ellee wanted nothing to do with staying inside with Mom!  It was close to bedtime and she was already in her PJ's.  So I bundled her up with hat, coat and lets not forget her rubber boots! (she LOVES her rubber boots!)

She watched from the sidelines for a while, but then ran out to join him!

"wait for me Daddy!"

"Fives!"

Helping Daddy push the mower!

I'm thinking it's never to early to teach them how to do chores! Hehe! : )

saving gas $

Part of my job is shuttling 2 of our residents to work Tuesday through Friday. It works out great because after I drop them off I drop Ellee off at my Mom's. I had been driving my own car because we didn't have an extra car seat and I didn't want to transfer the one from my car to the house van everyday. This doubled my gas usage each week and with gas prices being so high it was getting a little spendy!

We didn't have the extra money to go and buy another of the same car seat, so I decided to do some research on "cheaper" car seats. I didn't want trade cheap for safety! I ended up finding a car seat on Amazon with great safety reviews and it was only $39! Probably what I spend in a week driving my own vehicle to take the residents to work. I procrastinated in buying it and then ended up finding it at Target for $35 on sale!! I snagged it! I was excited to find it a few dollars cheaper and I didn't have to wait for it to be shipped! :)

Let me tell you, I have already saved money from that purchase! :)

And Ellee LOVES riding on the "Ban"! A couple times this week as we were getting ready to leave she got upset as we were walking out the door because she saw me walk to my car so I could get my purse...She kept fussing and pointing to the house van saying "Ban, Ban!!"

I'm not sure if it's her new car seat or the van she likes so much. :) It was pretty funny though! Oh and her cup HAS to be in the cup holder... not sure why because half the time when I put her cup in the holder in my car her cup ends up on the floor! She's to funny! :)

YAY for saving money!! :)

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frappy hour "Foffees"

Yesterday we made the walk down to Starbucks from my Mom's house for a frappy hour "Foffees" (half price frappaccino!).
I love how Ellee says coffee! It's one of my favorite words that she says! :)
Little did she know her cup did NOT contain caffeine! She shared a Strawberries and Cream Frapp with her Grandmom! She still has a bit to learn about sharing, she drank most of it and kept saying "mine!" :)

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May Day.

What a gorgeous day!!!  I really hope that the saying "April showers brings May flowers" is true!  We have had a rough start to spring!  But today really made up for it!  It was at least 60 degrees with out a cloud in the sky!

Ellee, Sarah and I went to one of the local parks.  I had taken them on Friday and ever since then Ellee kept bugging me, "bye, bye"?  "Slides"?  This girl LOVES to slide!!  And run!  Here are the photos from the park.
Sorry the quality is so bad... I took them with my phone and the zoom feature isn't the best! : (  I never have my camera when I need it!

Getting ready.

Here we go!

Weeee! 

Running... 

 Running, running!!

 Piggy back rides from Auntie Sarah.

I got some pretty good photos on Friday when we went, you can see them HERE! : )

When we got home we decided it was the perfect day to break out the sidewalk chalk! Ellee wasn't to interested in marking up the driveway herself.  She had fun watching Mom and Dad color though.  She kept saying, "Help". : )

 learning how to hopscotch! : )

"Help!"