Playtime!!

Ella Grace has been going to the play area that is in the Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood.  She loves it, and so do Wes and I, because she can crawl everywhere without finding something that she would probably be better without.  The floors are really soft and cushy, so she really can't hurt herself and there is a little area for the babies that she plays with.  Sometimes though she follows the bigger kids around and tries to go up the slide, so we help her with that.  Some of the kids that are there play with her or she tries to play with them and she has a blast.  She still is too small for us to just let her go though because she tries to climb on things that she isn't quite big enough for and sometimes there are kids that are too big and old playing in there and they almost run over her giving me a heartattack.

Little Miss Ella Grace also loves loves loves to go to the park that is at the school that is next to where we live.  When it's not to awful hot outside, we walk over and she mainly likes to swing.  She doesn't really care for the big slides yet and she can't walk right now, so she crawls around in the grass, picking up whatever looks interesting and tasty.  We went the other day when it was probably way too humid out, but she was a trooper and played in the shade for a while.  She slept so hard and took the longest nap on record that day.

 It's so funny when she gets in these swings and we start pushing her.  She just starts cracking up like it's the most fun thing to do EVER!  I love how simple she is.

 I wonder how that tastes.  She is so crazy!  She doesn't really play with anything, she just tries to eat it.

She ate like a champ that night to.  She is becoming so independent.  She loves to feed herself.  Now if she could only use a spoon the right way I will be set.

Pool Day!!

As promised, I am attempting to catch up on some of the happenings this summer.  First thing on the camera I found was Ella Grace's first trip to the swimming pool.  This was the week of Memorial Day, so it was not to hot out and the water was super cold.  The cold water definitely did not stop Miss Ella Grace.  She loved it!  I don't believe she cares for her hat too much as evidenced by her grabbing at it and yanking it off.  She prefers to chew on it, but then again she prefers to chew on everything.  She loves being in her float and everyonce in a while she will kick her little legs.  Ella Grace also likes to splash the water and watch it go all over the place.  She really liked it when we would get her out of her float and us just hold her while we bounced around in the water with her.  I believe we may have us a little water dog!

 Daddy and Ella Grace loving the water!!

 Ella Grace haning out with Mommy outside of the cold water.

 Ella Grace and Daddy love swimming!!

Ella Grace enjoying drinks poolside thanks to our cute cabana boy.

We love summer!!

So if you can't tell, I am still way behind with this blog.  This has been a super busy time!  Ella Grace has been a very busy little girl.  She has been swimming tons and swinging at the park.  She has also tried to take a few steps (five to be exact), but she has not done that again.  She has spent a few days at her Pawpaw Brett's house in Owensboro and she has also spent about a week at her Mimi's house in Glasgow.  During this time Wes and I have taken her Uncle Zachary to a Reds baseball game and we went to Las Vegas to get married.  If you didn't know, now you do and like I mentioned before I have tons to catch everyone up on.

First things first!  I wanted to post some of the pictures Ella Grace and I had done for a Mommy and Me shoot that my friend, and very talented photographer took of us when Ella Grace was about 6 months.  I completely forgot to share the pictures that we chose to put on a CD.  Her name is Whitney Ulm and she her business is called Eminence Photography out of Columbus,IN, so if you love these, and I know you will, then you should definitely look her up.  She does an amazing job, but then again Ella Grace was one of her subjects.  Everytime this little girl sees someone taking her picture she just lights up and poses for the camera.  I think she may be a natural.

We also got a great photo album with more pictures that Whitney designed and it is so stinking cute!!  I mean we just love it.  It is going to be a great album for Ella Grace to have when she gets older.  If you haven't seen it yet, yell at me next time so I can show off Ella's pretty pictures.