Monkey See Monkey Do

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11 months

Sweet Ella turned 11 months on January 9th and since I missed her 10 month post I think it's time for an update.
- Ella has been doing great with her physical therapy. She crawls all over the house and has gotten really fast! She pulls up on everything and is starting to creep around the furniture. She is obsessed with the stairs and can make it all the way to the top before you even know she's missing (time for baby gates).  We are so proud of how far she's come!
- very curious! I can't believe how different she is from Griff. We never even baby proofed with him because he honestly never got into anything he wasn't supposed to! Ella has already created several large messes including getting into a sack of ashes and cramming them in her mouth! Ha
- Ella has quite the personality. She's very social and loves to be seen and heard. She is silly and likes to play. She is also a huge cuddle bug when tired or sick. Love this!
- She got some cute toys for Christmas but so far her favorite thing to play with is Griffin's train table!
- has her top and bottom two teeth
- Griff gets the biggest smiles and belly laughs from her. If she even suspects he's going to play with her she gets super excited and squeals.
- has become a little picky when eating but I think it's mostly texture and teething. Her all time favorites are avocado, yogurt, and buttered toast.
Ella is such a joy and I have no idea how we ever lived without her. She keeps us laughing constantly and we are so blessed to be her parents!
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Christmas with Mimi and Pops

Catching up on all these Christmas posts is quite overwhelming!  Ha

My parents came to our house for Christmas this year.  They came for a week, and it was SO wonderful to have them here.  Griffin and Ella LOVE their Mimi and Pops, and I just love watching my kids get spoiled by their grandparents.  We did lots of fun things while they were here including shopping, baking, making gingerbread houses, eating, laughing, cooking, going to church, and playing.  It was a truly wonderful Christmas!

Griffin loved Mimi's red hat!

 Here he is playing train conductor...ha!

 Ella loves her Pops and suckered him into pushing her around the house in her car (constantly)...beep beep

 Leaving cookies for Santa

 Little Christmas elf

 Santa left the stockings filled with goodies and a kitchen for Ella and Griffin

 Baby girl was up bright and early to see what Santa brought

 Such a sweet happy baby

 Checking out the stockings

 Griffin was SO excited to see his kitchen when he came down stairs!  He was very into Christmas this year, and his excitement rubbed off on us all.

 Are these for me?

 Let the fun begin!

 They actually play so well together in their new kitchen.  No fighting YET!

 Mimi and Pops

 I happened to pick up this $8 drum at Homegoods as an afterthought, and it was one of Griff's favorite gifts...go figure!

Oh and this big box of course!

 My parents gave Griffin his big boy bedding, it's precious!  Post on that coming soon...

He also LOVED his little mixer just like mommies!