18 Month Update

It is hard to beleive that sweet Ellie Grace is already 18 months. It has flown by so fast! For those of you that may be wondering if we plan to have any more, well not any time soon! We are having so much fun right now :) Ellie weighs 24 lbs and 6 oz and 33" long, what a big lady. We have had a very good 2010 so far. Here are some words Ellie is saying these days:
Mama
Dah Dah
Bye Bye
TV
Bubbles
Wagon
Water
Orange
Baboon (ballon)
Sophie (grandma and Pops dog)
Dexter (grandma and Pops dog)
Ellie
Pop
PawPaw
Ball
Memaw
Audrey (her bff)
Nite nite
Nap nap
Book
Brother (her dog Hurley)
Bananna
Apple

I am amazed at her word recognition. We can tell her to bring us various things from her kitchen and she will go get it and the puzzles have also helped her learn all kinds of words. Such a smart girl! Her favorite place to be is outside riding in her red wagon to the park to swing and slide and blow bubbles!

Merry Christmas to All

I hope everyone has a VERY Merry Christmas and that we all take time to remember what we are really celebrating and to be thankful for our many blessings!

Sick baby girl

Our sweet little angel is sick again. This time she has a double ear infection with a fever. She woke up this morning and her eye was all red and swollen with a little bit of green stuff in it so looks like our pink eye is back. I know she is miserable. She is so pitiful but inspite of it all, she still manages to smile, cuddle, and be affectionate. She is so sweet and I am so lucky to have such a sweet little girl!! I hope you get to feeling better soon Ellie.

Shame on Me!

I am a horrible blogger and have not updated in quite sometime and for that I apologize! Alot has been happening in our lives since my last post! Ellie is 15 months and as of 11/15 she is an official walker!! She is so clumsy and it is the cutest thing to watch. I recently went back to work so this has been quite an adjustment for all of us. Ellie loves her school and I am grateful that she has adapted to it and enjoys going. The first few weeks were tough but she loves it now. Yesterday she was screaming in excitement on the way to school if that gives you any idea of how much she likes it!! I am so excited to have four days off of work to spend with Matt and Ellie. We sure do have alot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving! We have two family dinners tomorrow so it will be a fun, busy, and exciting day!

Ellie's favorite word and i guess object is "Baboon" (balloon). Anytime she sees flags or signs waving in the wind, she screams out "Baboon". She even asks for them at school and her teachers think it is absolutely hilarious!! We have had a long couple of months with how sick she has been but it can only get better!! Currently, we are still doing three breathing treatments a day, finishing our antibiotics and eye drops for pink eye and the asthma is really improving with the help of Singulair and breathing treatments!

I promised myself that I wouldn't get out with all the crazy people on Black Friday but after seeing the deals at Toys R Us, I have given in and plan on going. I know it is crazy BUT it will be worth it for the deals AND the good news is I won't be going to the mall and I can go in the morning while Matt and Ellie are still asleep. The true test will be if I can actually wake up that early!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!

Ellie's Fall

Well I never imagined that Ellie would have her first incident at such a young age but my worst nightmare came true on Thursday at around 7pm. We were outside playing with her new water table that she got for her birthday and we were having a blast. We were all soaked. Ellie loved squirting herself and pouring water all over her and she was drenched. She started crawling on the stone and had dirt all over her and was getting tired so time to wash her little legs off with the hose and in for a bath. M had her and reached for the water hose with one hand and had her in the other but she arched her back to get down and was a slippery girl and fell about three feet and hit her little head on the stone. It was the worst thing I have ever seen in my life. She screamed for about 15 minutes and nothing calmed her. We didnt even change her and put her in her carseat and rushed to Texas Children's. They got us right into an ER room and we waited and waited forever. They did four xrays (one on each shoulder, one spinal, and one neck) and it was so sad to watch them restrain her to take the xrays (it took four people). Then we had to do a CT scan. That too was heartwrenching to see your little baby in such a large machine screaming for you and theres nothing you can do. Finally at around 2 am on Friday the doctor came in and sat down and said he had the results of the ct scan and wanted to discuss them with us. I knew he was about to give us bad news from the way he talked. So he told us that she had a very small skull fracture (not words I wanted to hear) and referred to it as a ping pong fracture. Medical terminology can be confusing bc when i think of a ping pong ball relative to her head...that's pretty big but instead what he meant was a tiny dimple in the skull like the ridges on a ping pong ball. It is so small the doctor could barely see it on the ct scan to show it to us. The good news is that it will heal itself in the next couple of weeks and as for long term effects: minimal to none. That is very reassuring because that was my main concern. We are very excited because Ellie is doing all the same things she was doing before the fall: speaking the same words, doing her sign language for more, waving bye bye, healthy appetite, sweet and smiling, and same interest in her toys. So there does not appear to be any difference in her behavior and we are so thankful. They kept her overnight and moved us to an observation room and we were released Friday morning around 9:30. Thank you friends and family for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers and we are so fortunate and happy to report that our little girl is doing great. Sorry i didnt post any pictures but i have not taken any as this is not something I want to remember.

Pictures in the bluebonnets

This one is way overdue but here are the pictures I took of Ellie in the bluebonnets at the beginning of May when she was 9 months! I got a few good ones but she was not happy about the heat and being in the grass and turns out she had an ear infection so that explains her mood. Poor girl. We had fun taking her pictures. Enjoy!!

Trip to South Carolina

As noted in my previous post, we went on vacation to South Carolina over Fourth of July and it was a great time. Ellie was a great traveler and loved the beach!! We were able to do alot of fun stuff and spend time with family. Thank you Grandma and Pops for taking us on such a great trip. Here are a few pics of our trip!!