Thursday, September 4, 2008
Our little beach princess
Here are some pictures we took of ella on our trip to Panama City a few weeks ago. She was not a big fan of the way the sand felt since she doesn't like things to feel dirty or gritty. Once we found a mat for her to sit on she was up for a few pictures.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Bad Blogger
Obviously I have not been very good at updating the blog lately! We got a new camera a couple of months ago and I am still trying to figure it out...we now have over 1,200 pictures on the camera, so I am WAY behind on posting things! Let's see....John started work and is already in full force! He loves the people there, and is going to be working very closely with one of the partners as sort of a mentoring type position. But he's already working a LOT (even on Labor Day!).
Ella has been learning and doing all sorts of fun things.
- She is running now
- She is trying to repeat almost everything we are saying. John keeps giving me the evil eye reminding me to watch my mouth! I don't really say bad words a lot or anything, but I did say, "That Sucks!" the other day and she started saying..."Yuck, Yuck"
- She knows her color yellow very well. This morning I turned on the TV to check on Gustav and the New Orleans mayor was wearing a yellow shirt and Ella immediately said, "Yellow!"
- She has moved up to the Toddler I class, which was very traumatic for me just thinking she is now a toddler. I guess I could have figured that one out once she started walking. They only take 1 nap a day in that class! The director said Ella has adjusted very quickly, and will sit on her mat during reading and learning time, will do the exercises with the class (and she comes home and practices them!), and pulls out her chair and sits down for lunch all by herself!
- Not too long ago I asked John to make Ella some M-I-L-K (spelling it out so she wouldn't start whining for it). She immediately knew what I said and started doing the sign for milk and saying, "Milk, Milk!"
- Ella enjoys trying to read books to us. She'll point at pictures and recognize animals and say, Dog...Ruf, Ruf, Cat...Meow, etc. The other night she pulled down The Giving Tree and pointed on the front cover and said, "Apple!". We had no idea she knew what an apple was!
It's just hard to believe Ella will be 17 months old on the 13th of September. It seems like she should still be a little tiny baby! She is such a joy to us, and is just growing up Way too fast!!
Ella has been learning and doing all sorts of fun things.
- She is running now
- She is trying to repeat almost everything we are saying. John keeps giving me the evil eye reminding me to watch my mouth! I don't really say bad words a lot or anything, but I did say, "That Sucks!" the other day and she started saying..."Yuck, Yuck"
- She knows her color yellow very well. This morning I turned on the TV to check on Gustav and the New Orleans mayor was wearing a yellow shirt and Ella immediately said, "Yellow!"
- She has moved up to the Toddler I class, which was very traumatic for me just thinking she is now a toddler. I guess I could have figured that one out once she started walking. They only take 1 nap a day in that class! The director said Ella has adjusted very quickly, and will sit on her mat during reading and learning time, will do the exercises with the class (and she comes home and practices them!), and pulls out her chair and sits down for lunch all by herself!
- Not too long ago I asked John to make Ella some M-I-L-K (spelling it out so she wouldn't start whining for it). She immediately knew what I said and started doing the sign for milk and saying, "Milk, Milk!"
- Ella enjoys trying to read books to us. She'll point at pictures and recognize animals and say, Dog...Ruf, Ruf, Cat...Meow, etc. The other night she pulled down The Giving Tree and pointed on the front cover and said, "Apple!". We had no idea she knew what an apple was!
It's just hard to believe Ella will be 17 months old on the 13th of September. It seems like she should still be a little tiny baby! She is such a joy to us, and is just growing up Way too fast!!
Chris & Janet's Wedding
yes, that is cake up Janet's nose
John's grandparents
John's mother and granddad
Mollie and Anthony
Ha ha! Janet, I don't know where the glitter in the air vents came from. What a brilliant idea!
Wedding Rehearsal & Ice Cream Social
Monday, August 18, 2008
Cute little hair bob
Ella woke up with a fever of 102.7 yesterday morning, and it was John's first day of work! So, I stayed at home taking care of her, eating up my non-existent vacation time. I figured it was a good time to do a little updating...
This past weekend Ella got her first hair cut! We went to a place in Hoover called Angel Hair, and they had a little tug boat for her to sit in while the lady cut her hair. She had the best time driving the tug boat and playing with the toys, she didn't even realize her hair was getting chopped off! It was a little traumatic for me, especially because the lady forgot to save any of her hair, and I was too busy snapping photos to notice. I plan on clipping one of Ella's little curls off in the back soon to save instead.
This past weekend Ella got her first hair cut! We went to a place in Hoover called Angel Hair, and they had a little tug boat for her to sit in while the lady cut her hair. She had the best time driving the tug boat and playing with the toys, she didn't even realize her hair was getting chopped off! It was a little traumatic for me, especially because the lady forgot to save any of her hair, and I was too busy snapping photos to notice. I plan on clipping one of Ella's little curls off in the back soon to save instead.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Ella's First Addition to the Blog
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Ella decided it had been too long since we had updated our blog, so she started our next entry above. Things have been ever so busy at the Bowles house. John is finally done with the bar (hopefully for good, but he won't find out the results until the end of September!). The bar was in Montgomery and was 15 hours worth of tests over 3 days. So I was a single mom for several days, which was not very easy. Of course Brinkley had to come down with some sort of doggy tummy bug while he was gone. She had to stay at the vet for 2 nights and had an IV and everything. But luckily she's doing much better now.
John's sister Janet got married in Fayetteville, Georgia on August 2. The wedding was absolutely beautiful and it was great to see all of John's family all together. After the wedding we went to the Georgia aquarium, then to my boss' lake house on Lake Eufaula for 3 nights, then off to Panama City with my whole family for 4 nights.
Here are some pictures from the past few weeks (pictures from the wedding are coming soon):
The Georgia Aquarium
Our view from the hotel in downtown Atlanta 
Hayden and Ella
The many face of Ella on our vacation
PC Beach 2008!
Who needs the beach when you can play Rock Band
Time to go home.....
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