3 month update and Tahoe Trip

Hello again everyone!!  Gosh I have been really dropping the ball with updating our blog lately and there is so much to catch up on!!  Where to start??  The biggest news is that Ellie has not only been sleeping in her own room in her crib this week but she has been sleeping through the night!!!!  These parents could not be more proud (and happy to get more sleep) of their big girl!  I selfishly put it off for too long because I liked having her close by in our room but as it turns out, she obviously sleeps better in her crib because the first night she slept 9 hours, followed by 10.5, then last night 11.5 hours!!!  Unfortunately that did not mean Russell and I slept through the night last night because Koby got sick and was throwing up every few hours. Poor boy.  (update: He is much better today and back to his crazy self.)  Anyways, Ellie is doing so great!!  She is sleeping less during the day because she gets so much sleep at night but that is great for us because we have more fun time together.  We've been doing trials in the Bumbo seat which she seems to like and she still LOVES her play mat!  The only thing we can't seem to progress on is her tummy time because she still seems to hate it!  We try to make her do it for at least a few minutes here or there but she fusses and ends up working herself up so much and starts crying.  So we try to get her to work on her neck strength by sitting up on our laps or in the bumbo seat and we've also put her facing outwards in the Baby Bjorn a few times which is really fun and she seems to love it.  

Ellie lifting up on her tummy

Ellie's 3 month picture

Helping the Giants through the post season 

Rooting on daddy's softball team

Mommy and Ellie at Smashburger

Had to throw this one in of Baloo because he's so cute!

Daddy and Ellie passed out in the rocker

Reading time with new books from Terry and Moorea

Ellie LOVES Baby Beluga

More tummy time

I love the Packers!

Bumbo seat adventures 

Go Giants!

Ellie and Mommy

Going for our morning walk

The first weekend of October we took Ellie and the boys to Lake Tahoe for an extended weekend for our friends Melissa and Nick's wedding where I was a bridesmaid.  It was a beautiful weekend and we got to stay with Russell's parents at their house in South Shore with was conveniently located just 5 minutes from where all the wedding festivities were.  The weather was gorgeous (and a nice break from the heat in Folsom) and Ellie did SO great!!  She was such a trooper all weekend with the rehearsal, rehearsal dinner and the wedding itself and she was such a good girl that everyone gave us compliments on how well she did.  While we were there we went on a walk along the Taylor Creek to see the Koakane Salmon spawning so here are some pictures...

Ellie and Auntie Melissa

Melissa at the nail salon the day before the wedding

Me and my brother Sean who was the photographer for the wedding

Me and Russell at the reception

Me, Russell and Sean at the reception

Ellie in her pretty pink dress for the wedding

Me and the beautiful bride

Smiles and tummy time adventures

Hello hello hello!!  I know, I know...I've been slacking and haven't done a post in FOREVER! Well, I have some free time right now while little Ellie is napping so I decided to post a quick update.  Where to start??  Well, Ellie is smiling and cooing more and more these days and her smile is infectious!!  If I'm having a bad day or am upset about something it is all forgotten in a minute when I look down at those big, beautiful eyes and see her smiling at me!  And boy does she have good timing too! How can I be upset with this adorable little one staring back at me?  She especially LOVES when I start talking in my fake british accent (don't even ask how that started) and cannot stop smiling.  We have an ongoing joke that her first word will be "mummy" with a british accent and all because I talk like that so much around her.  That would be hilarious!  She loves to play on her play mat and kick her feet like crazy and can actually open and close her hands much better to grab her toys and play with them.  And of course everything has to go in her mouth and she has a little bit of a drooling problem.  LoL.  

Ellie and Mommy

Ellie's first time in the pool

Ellie eating her hand

Family picture with of course, Ellie eating her hand :)

Another pool day

Go Bears!!

Pushing up on her hands!!

Go Packers!

Tummy Time!