Quick Ellie picture- Happy Baby!

Have to hurry. We're seeing Uncle Bryce and Aunt Meg, so I have to hurry.

Bye!

Becca

Another Ellie update!

This is another update on Ellie, and yes, it includes pictures!

Ellie is a good baby. She has slept through the night, and wakes up about 6 or 7 to eat, and goes to bed about 11 or 12. So 6 to 8 hours of sleep isn't bad. I end up going in and getting Ellie many mornings when Mom isn't fully awake and I'm getting ready for school.

Ellie is getting so big. She is over 10 lbs., maybe over 11. I don't know. She isn't as small as she was.

Ellie is also getting strong. She sleeps on her tummy, so her neck and upper body strength is amazing. She is starting to try to army crawl, but can't find a support for her feet to push off of, so she can only army crawl when one of us gives her our hand to use. She loves to move and is fun to play with. She is also able to hold herself up when I grab her hands and pull her onto her feet. She loves to stand, and I help her walk by holding her up. She has been having fun moving her legs and walking. Evidently it's a reflex to move your legs like that when walking. She's sure enjoying that reflex then. She likes walking on carpet more since she can get a sure footing. But she enjoys walking anywhere. She is so cute.

Finally, we (Laura and I) had a photo shoot of Ellie, and it was using one of the stools so she could sit up and we took the pictures in front of a plain brown wall so it looked like on of the backgrounds of a photo shoot. The lighting wasn't great, but it was fun. She was very cooperative. See for yourself:

More, random pictures of Ellie:

Is my tongue ready to come out? Yep!

Ellie and her tongue!!!

Happy girl!!!

Ellie ended up being a ducky/chicky. It was too cold to be a fairy.

Ellie the fairy

Isn't Ellie just adorable? I think she is. And she loves that little tongue which is so cute. We love Ellie so much!!!

Love,

Becca

Ellie

Well, it's been over a month now, and Ellie's 7 weeks old. What a cutie!!! She's such a good baby, only waking up once a night.

She's changed a little since these pictures were taken, but it is basically what she looks like today. Isn't she cute? Her shirt in the above picture says 'Thank heaven for little girls.' So true. We love Ellie!

Becca

Eleanor Melanie Cate

Mom with Ellie

Dad and Ellie- that shirt was her first blanket- Dad's "I Love You Dad" shirt

Rachel and Ellie

Laura and Ellie

Grandma and Ellie and Miri

I just had to post a few pictures, but she was born at 12:58 in the morning on September 9, 2011. She weighed 7 lbs, 9 oz. She was 20" long. And she's adorable.

Becca

Ellie

Well, this'll be mostly be pictures of the little girl herself- by request of Aunt Katie (she asked Mom to post pictures of Ellie...) so here they are!





Pretty baby...








farther off shots...

















Daddy holding his Ellie...







Grandpa Cate...







Grandma Cate (a hard one, since in almost all of the pictures, she was talking to Laura when I got the picture, but it was my bad photography's fault...)







Mommy and Ellie... so cute together...








Me and Ellie...









Laura and Ellie...









Brian, sick but trying not to get Ellie sick- we had to get one
picture of him with Ellie...





Miriam's other picture, which is the same 'pose' as Brian's, shows
a really goofy smile...






That's my hand, I had just readjusted her head when Laura shot the picture







Rachel and Ellie... you can tell how much Rachel loves Ellie...

















And surprisingly enough, these last 5 pictures were taken at 7 this morning, and it's now 4:50, and she's just being changed out of them!!! What a concept!





Well, these are the recent pictures of baby Ellie.

Yep, she was blessed on 9/11 so Grandpa Cate could participate since they were leaving right after sacrament meeting to go to the airport. So she was blessed, Mom took the sacrament, and then they left. But we were lucky that they got to come at all!

Becca

Still no Ellie

Yep, it's true, Ellie is still inside Mommy's tummy, and seems to have no intentions of getting out. On the plus side, Ellie won't ever complain about a birthday on Fast Sunday!!! :)

Grandpa Bristow, you are crazy!!!

As I got on the computer, I saw an email from Grandpa Bristow, and the email was about the earthquakes we got here. (We got a 5.9 earthquake at about 2 that lasted for almost 30 seconds, and then another at like 8 that evening. There were 3 aftershocks for all of them combined.)

So he said...

Of course the real mystery of all this is the relationship between Josh & Amanda moving to Virginia and the strange events that have followed them here: record snow, earthquakes and now Hurricane Irene making a beeline for the DC area. Is it a mere coincidence inquiring readers want to know? :-)

Silly Grandpa!!!

-Becca