Ellie, March to June 2011

Ellie has changed the most over the past few months, of course! She's a happy little girl, and we all love having her around. She's had a few eating strikes, but other than that she is doing really well. The doctor wants her to eat more, of course, but she's been really healthy - no illnesses or concerns!

In March, her grandparents came for Ian's baptism and her blessing. She was blessed in the same dress I was. She is much bigger than I was, and the bonnet didn't fit so I got some ribbon to put in her "hair" (it all fell out!). The dress is yellowing some, and the ribbon I found that matches is called "antique white." Didn't know I was an antique just yet, but I guess I am!


She has mastered the art of sucking her thumb! By the end of March she was pretty good at keeping it in her mouth when she wanted it.

Is she a girl, or what? Her brothers love to choose her clothes, and they usually choose all one color. This day it happened to be pink!

I took her 6 month pictures, because I didn't want to take her in a public place just yet (she was in hiding until May). This is one I like, I haven't yet chosen one to hang on the wall.

By April she could hold her head up! She only likes her tummy for about a minute, and then she gets mad. But she does like to look at Winnie the Pooh.

In May we took her to church for the first time. I did take a picture, just didn't put it on here. We started taking her out to places like the library and such, too, and thankfully she's still stayed healthy! She also had her first time in the swing in May, she liked it! Ellie went out of town for the first time, over Memorial Day weekend. She went to visit her grandparents and meet some aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Ellie isn't yet teething, but she almost always has some or all of her hand in her mouth! She likes to suck her right hand, but she sucks her left thumb.

Her hair is starting to really grow in after it fell out! She has a ways to go, but it's improvement!

Ellie has discovered her toes! She sucks on them, too. And anything that gets near her mouth, fabric in particular. When I put her arm in a long sleeved shirt, and her hand isn't completely out of the end of the sleeve yet, it's automatic - the hand feels something on it, and in the mouth it goes, every time.

Ellie is a fun little girl. She's a happy baby, and really quite easy. She loves her brothers, and she loves her daddy - she gets the biggest grin when she sees him! I was feeding her solid foods, but then when she didn't want to drink bottles, I stopped, so she'd hopefully be more hungry for formula. I've been starting to let her try what we're eating, mashed up, and she's not gagging! It's wonderful! She doesn't eat hardly any solid food, still, but at least it doesn't gag her, so there is hope. Ellie weighed 12 lb 7 oz at the beginning of June, at 8 months.