New Stuff

Since we arrived home last weekend from our Christmas trip, Ella Ann has been enjoying several of her new toys, clothes, shoes, etc. Our usual weekly activities/commitments haven't resumed yet so we have just been hanging out around the house and braving the Arctic temperatures we had last week! Thankfully the weather will be extremely nice this week so we are going to go to the park a few times since we didn't get to go much last week. We did manage to walk down to Centennial Park on Saturday so that Ella Ann could play and see the Christmas decorations one more time before they are put up. A makeshift ice skating rink now sits in the Park and it's always full of people skating to the blaring music. Ella Ann LOVES going to watch the skaters and shake her hips to the music! When we get home she always runs to Spencer and says, "I went ice skating!!"

I hope everyone is sitting down as they read this because Ella Ann has done something extraordinary..... she ate chicken!!! hahahahahahahaaaa! She is obsessed with watching the "Veggie Tales" DVD that her Aunt Kasey and Uncle Craig gave her for Christmas, so when she was helping me prepare chicken earlier this week and asked to watch it, Spencer told her she could watch "Veggie Tales" if she took a bite of chicken. Well lo and behold the child shoved a piece of chicken down her throat and swallowed! She has eaten it once more since then so everyone keep their fingers crossed that it continues! :)

I also attempted to potty train her on Thursday because she showed a few signs of being ready so I thought I would see what happens. Well, we went to the store and she picked out her own underwear which she had out of the package trying to put on while in her car seat on the way home! I just let her go with underwear on Thursday afternoon, all day Friday, and Saturday morning. By nap time on Saturday she was back in a diaper! She kept wanting to sit on the potty but would never make it to the potty before going all over the floor. I just don't think she is physically ready, so we'll try again later. It was a messy weekend, to say the least! But I did get some cute pictures out of it!

Sporting her Dora backpack that Carter gave her. He has the Diego one!

Snug as a bug in a rug in her towel from Nana and Papa!

Before church last Sunday in her new outfit from Grandpa and Mimi. The pockets were very entertaining!

She loves to touch the lights on the gigantic tree at Centennial Park. Ella Ann would find the one light that didn't work and would say, "It doesn't work!! Mommy, you fix it!"

Dreaming of being on the ice with those kids!

Here she is in her underwear...along with the boots and mittens! Don't ask! She wants to wear the boots her Nana and Papa gave her 24/7! She had them on with her pjs this morning before breakfast!

This is the best picture ever! We will be sure to have it on display at her wedding reception! :) She somehow managed to put my boots on by herself and stand up! She fell over backwards trying to get them off!