Martin Luther King Day

We had a great MLK Day weekend in Dallas with some of our BYU friends. So excited to finally meet little Henry (what a cutie). Ellie enjoyed shopping at the galleria while we were there.

Our other exciting news is that we have a second car now (FREEDOM!!!) The possibilities for Ellie and I are endless and we are pretty over the moon about it.

It's hard to believe how fast Ellie is growing up. She is full of words and sounds, has four bottom teeth coming in now, and is into everything (trashcans, tissue boxes, toilet paper rolls, and under beds & couches) We can hardly get her to sit in the bath long enough to get clean because she starts climbing out. She also had her first perogy which she loved :) Ellie is also starting to wave a little bit more which I'm really excited about.

First Bubble Bath 

9 Months

Height: 27 inches (39th percentile)

Weight: 18 lbs 10 oz (58th percentile)

The newest thing about Ellie is that she has a tooth! It's razor sharp and she didn't sleep too well while it was coming in but it's exciting all the same. The doctor also said that her upper gum was swollen so we will probably be seeing some front teeth soon too! She loves to stand and hold onto furniture. She's army crawling all over the place and is obsessed with every spec of anything on the ground. She uses her pointer fingers to touch everything and can even turn off light switches with them. She always makes me share my toast with her in the morning and she loves graham crackers. She also loves to have "baba" conversations with us.

In other news, Brett has learned to be a pretty good dryer repairman and was recently moved from nursery (ages 1.5 - 3) to the sunbeams (ages 3 - 4 ) in our ward. Also, it seems I've become a bit more forgetful lately. On Sunday, I made it to church with everything imaginable in my diaper bag... except diapers; and today I made it to the pediatrician's office in my slippers because I forgot to put real shoes on. What's happening to me? haha

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mom... why are we doing this?

RAWR...