New Hope Correctional Officer Outreach

My sister's church is doing a wonderful outreach to the correctional officers at Chino prison. With my husband working as a deputy in the jails, I thought it was a wonderful idea that their church wanted to reach out to these wonderful men and women who work so hard!

Their goal was to bake 4400 chocolate chip cookies! Yep thats right 4400!!! So I of course volunteered to make 6 dozen cookies! It was the FIRST time I had EVER made chocolate chip cookies from a recipe =).

I was having a really bad day, so i thought that maybe taking a break from my "adult responsibilites" I should make the cookies. Man, did that really turn my frown upside down! Knowing that I helped such an amazing cause really made me feel good. Thank you to New Hope Church for doing an amazing job on reaching your goal in making all those cookies! Have fun passing them out on wednesday!!!!

Jumping Machine

Aunty Dana was so kind to let little miss ella bella borrow their jump a roo. Ella has had so much fun jumping and jumping and jumping! Now Ella thinks she can jump anytime... even when she is NOT in the jump a roo =)

Thanks again Aunty Dana!

Crawling FORWARD!!!

So Ella has decided that ROLLING to her destination is kind of overrated! Today she decided to move FORWARD in a crawling postion... well... if you can call it a crawling position! HA! She continues to make us so proud of her each and every day.

NOTE: After trying to get her to come after all kinds of different baby toys a CELL phone was the only thing that made her move! ENJOY!

Mines not good enough!

Ella and Zachary demonstrating that they know how to share! Go Me and Mandy for teaching our children how to share!!!!

Dont worry ALL pacifiers involed were cleaned in hot water afterwards... just in case germs got onto one anothers pacies!!!

Pulling herself up

Ella continues to get bigger and bigger everyday! Today I put her on the floor with a car toy that will one day help aid her in walking. And as I was playing on facebook I looked down to her and saw her standing up! So I sat her down to see if she would do it again. She got to her knees the second time! Heres the video!

Ella 6 Months

I just cant believe how much time has flown by that I havent been able to blog!! Lets see what has been going on.... we have all be SICK! And right when one of us gets better the next one gets sick. It has been and never ending circle! It has been so bad that I have YET to get my 2009 HOLIDAY CARD out! I refuse to let them sit in the box so YES I will be sending the card out. So for all of you who get it just disregard the "Happy Holiday 2009" part and enjoy some wonderful photos that my sister took of the three of us!
Ella has become such a big girl with in the last couple of weeks! My sweet angel just went to her 6 Month check up last monday. Dr. Maufoud says she is doing wonderful! Here are her stats:
Weight 15 lbs 3 ounces
Height 25 1/2 inches tall
She went from being in the 50 percent tile to the 35 percent tile.

This is what she has been up too:
-Eating cereal twice a day.
-New foods have been carrots, sweet potatoes, bannas and peas. she will be starting peaches tomorrow.
-She LOVES screaming or talking really loud!
-She has mastered crawling backwards. And now does this hopping thing with her legs to get her up on all four. She gets very frustrated because she only goes backwards so she gives up and rolls everywhere she wants to go!
-She is still nursing
-She gets extremely mad when she sees food so mommy has let her try bread. And boy does she love it!
-She now has her 2 bottom teeth. (teething is such a joy... NOT)
-She sleeps from about 9pm to 7am....on a good day she will sleep till 830am.
-She trys to get 2 naps in through out the day.

Like I said she is getting to be such a big girl I just can't stand it!! I want her to stay little forever!!!

I will be updating my blog better... so as soon as I get my photos off my cameras I will post them. But for now here are some of her 6 Month photos that G and M images took!!!!! Thanks Steph!