9 Months!

Many faces of Ella :)

Lazy bones ;-)

Valentine's Day

Brothers with their baby girls!

Playing in the backyard

Getting tossed in the air

Spectrum date

Yay, Ella pulled herself up!

Beach day with daddy

Ella's had a hard time eating this month :(

Celebrating Dr. Seuss's b-day at Mommy's school

Getting kisses from cousin Emi

Waiting to meet cousin Story :)

Playing with GG

What a fun month we have had here in the Carlson household! Ella has been such a joy and her little personality shines through more and more each day. She LOVES to stand and demands to be walked around with an adult holding her arms as much as possible. We are still working on crawling (although rumor has it she came pretty close in order to touch cousin Story), but Ella is an expert "scooter". She can easily get to one end of the room to the other by scooting on her bottom or moving backwards. She absolutely adores her "play station" where we have a large carpet rug with all of her toys. She could sit their forever playing by herself.

We had a wonderful play date with Mandy & Brady (they are only one week apart) at Irvine Spectrum and Ella loved to touch him and just stare at him as much as possible. They looked so cute sitting side by side in their highchairs. We recently had a family night and Ella went nuts over second cousin Emilia. I can honestly say that I have never heard her screech that loud with excitement. She LOVES being around other kids (especially cousins Emi & Story). She would scream every time Emi left the room. You can already tell that they are Paloma & Jenny minis (Drew and Johnny, please refrain from sarcastic comments here :-)

We also had a visit with GG (Great Grandma) and Uncle Bob. Ella couldn't get enough of GG and spent the entire afternoon in her arms singing, dancing, and reading the book GG recorded for her. I recommend everyone get one of those record-a-books and have their grandparents read the books to the babies with their recorded voices. It's one of those gifts that is absolutely priceless. Ella will forever be able to hear GG read 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.

We are very excited to announce that Ella officially has 4 teeth! She got her two lower central incisors in January and her two upper lateral incisors just came through. She may look a little vampire-esque until her upper central incisors (center teeth) come in :-) That's okay, it will build character! My little munchkin has been refusing solid food for almost two weeks now (and she would eat ANYTHING prior). I'm hoping it's because of all of her new teeth coming in (I think I can feel the front center teeth... they will probably be here any day). She used to eat 1-2 jars per feeding. The past couple weeks its been a fight to get her to eat her oatmeal in the morning and it just gets more challenging as the day goes on. She'll eat string cheese, cheerios, and sometimes bananas throughout the day as snacks, but we are going to see the doctor early next week just to make sure everything is okay.