Ellie and Auggie

Grandpa Auggie stopped by last week while he was paragliding (and like I had to tell Elisa...that's not a figure of speech for a *less* than thrilling board meeting...) He was a good sport in reading Ellie a bedtime story, having to shorten the story for her 45 second attention span. Love you Dad!

Summer 2.0

  eating green smoothies..yum..

 playing with dogs...we love new little Jet

hanging out with Nanna Niece

 playing peek a boo

 playing with Dada

smiling for her many pictures...

  

hanging out with uncle trey 

hoarding food along her luscious thighs...

this is the face she made when we told her about the byu-utah game

seeing aunt madi

going to her first Dew games skateboard vert... you know...typical baby things...

Its kind of like the endless summer, with the same amount of half-nakedness, but less surfing...

10 months

Hard to believe its been 10 months already, although what parents says,"yep...its gone by soooo slow.." Ellie loves dancing, electronics, belt buckles, protein, frozen peas, climbing stairs, being chased, baths, and watching her bird mobile spin. She hates getting dressed, getting changed, or being denied an opportunity to "feed herself"...considers herself highly independent. What crazy joy parenthood is.

Eleanor's Birth Video

A more nostalgic (and shorter...e.g. 29 hours into 3 minutes) version of the arrival of our darling firstborn. Rated PG. (ok...maybe PG-13...I'm in the tub but you don't see anything...although believe me I was stark naked by the end of the birth and didn't give a hoot about it)








Yes it took 10 months to finish it -- but now I can look at the footage and not feel the contractions/pressure waves/ infant skull-crushing against my backbone and pelvis-labor. Now I just cry and get excited for the next one. :-)

Naps, nakedness and Nana Niece

She's a burrower...just like her daddy. 

Indian food out on our "patio"...she loved the rice. And Mom's fingers.

 Hugs to Nana after her overnight visit while picking up her new car. It took her about an hour to leave.

Naked time in the baby pool!

She loves watermelon, really, but she also loves to make faces...this is another gift from her father, although I have been told I have no poker-face myself.

And I wil call it my squishy and it will be mine...hugging our Beatles-singing-sunflower from Grand-Aunt Jamie.

Oh so big.

I'm not tired...I just have a little bit of raspberry in my eye...really...

Is that chocolate or poop? Oh boy...its poop. Our first (and pray last) naptime-poopalooza...literally. It was everywhere...including all over her binky (I'll spare you the pics but they are archived for posterity's/senior yearbook sake). I love that she is just looking at it--huh...yeah...that is a lot of poop...

All fresh and clean...napping in her diaper...a wonderful summer tradition.