Ella has been busy!

Here are some new pictures and videos of Ella. She is on the move all the time now which keeps us busy and tired. Ella has been cheering on the Wolverines and has even perfected her own "hike" pose. And we had a nice visit from Uncle Howard, Aunt Ellen, Rachel, and David!

I guess this is what Ella thought of the food we offered to her...

And here she is practicing the "hike" again...

Ella's First Trip to Michigan!

We made a quick trip to Michigan so that Ella could meet more of our family. We were only home for a few days, but as you can see from the pictures Ella got to see a lot of people during a very short visit!

Our trip started out in Port Huron (Andrea's hometown)...

And then we moved to Royal Oak (Aaron's hometown) for the second half of the trip...

Recent pics

Early this morning we heard Ella laughing and when we went in to check on her this is what we saw:

Ella is really liking Des, who knows how to stay just

out of her reach...

This weekend Ella got to meet Aunt Paulette for the first time, while she was visiting a friend in Raleigh.

Sitting

Ella has started sitting on her own, but wasn't too excited about us taking pictures. We'll try for some better ones this week.

Funny Video

Apparently Ella finds her own blog very funny...

but she's still not too happy after bathtime...

Ella's 1st Playdate

Ella had fun on Friday when she got to play with Lidia. We're hoping that Lidia shows Ella how fun tummy time can be...she only lasted about 2 min before crying, but that's an improvement!

Ella's New Favorite Things

Although the bananas weren't a big hit with Ella, carrots definitely are (as well as her feet)! And thankfully she has a new toy that she is very excited about...and us too since she was getting bored with her other toys!

(Note food in eyebrow)

Bananas

You can tell from the video - she didn't like bananas!

Finally

After much effort and frustration, Ella finally rolled over from her back to her tummy...the problem is she hates being on her tummy as you can see from the 2nd picture.   She lasts about 9 seconds before she starts crying.

And over Memorial day weekend Ella met Lindsay who was in town from Chicago.