A Day at the Park

Our little monkey!

Her shirt says "Elephant Ellie" :)

WHEEEEE!

Big brother giving a little push.

Hello!

We had a great day at the park enjoying our final days of warmth for the year. Elly LOVED the swing. We took turns giving her little pushes in it and she would just grin and laugh. She enjoyed it so much.

We are in constant amazement of all the new "tricks" Elly seems to be learning. Her latest is done when she is sitting in her bouncy seat. She has found that if she shakes one of her legs up and down, it makes the bouncy seat rock up and down. So we are constantly in giggles over watching her shake her leg to make the bouncy seat rock like crazy.

We are getting more and more settled to our new life in Illinois. Aidan is doing great in school and he has now made a new "best friend" named Hunter. It's funny because Hunter is actually who stood in front of him in line for their first day of school and I had a feeling it may work out because they both had the same Star Wars backpack. Now I hear lots of stories about playing Star Wars at recess with Hunter. He has lots of other friends too, and of course, I still hear the stories about getting chased at recess by several girls. I have a feeling I have a future ladies' man on my hands. I'm going to have a keep a close eye on him. :)

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

Look at that beautiful smile!

Sitting up, playing with her musical octopus

I love kisses!

Polka-dot Princess

At the Field Museum. We were all pretty tired.

I apologize that it's been so long since our last post. We had some computer issues, so I haven't been able to get to it.

We hit some more new milestones since last I posted. On October 6, Elly turned 5 months old and on that day she rolled over for the first time from back to tummy!! The hilarious thing is that she has been working on this for weeks and she finally did it and then the minute she got on her tummy, she screamed. Ahhh, you can't win.

We have also been working on sitting. She loves to be sitting up and she has such a strong back. She's been sitting unassisted for a few seconds at a time. It's hard to believe how quickly she is growing up. I've been here before, but I seemed to have forgotten how once the learn one thing, it seems to be a snowball effect.

We have been staying busy as a family trying to enjoy the last weeks of the nice weather. Last weekend, we headed into the city and went to the Field Museum. Aidan was a little nervous at first, but he quickly warmed up and we all enjoyed it very much. It's A LOT of walking though and we didn't even make it through the whole thing! But we learned a lot and had a great time as a family.