What she's been up to. . .

Being put into the Doll Stroller

Practicing Sitting Up all by Myself

Wrestling with Lily

Being really proud of myself for getting this sitting up thing down! And turning 6 months old, weighing 18.5 lbs., coming down from 95th percentile to 80 for weight and 65 for height.

Loving warm swimming in the heated pool

Really working on my Chub Legs

Skinny Dippin'

Eating Baby Food

Learning the "drop the toy, have mom/dad/Lily pick up the toy" game

Giving really good slobber kisses

Being just dang Cute!!

Model Lily- The Cocoletta Hat collection

Once again, check out all the adorable hats for girls and boys here!

These Two

Check this out for some fun Holiday Shopping!

Model Ella (Pictures by Raquel's Photography)

So my wonderfully talented friend Kelly, just launched her new beanie/hat line for kids and had a photo shoot to get some good pictures for advertising purposes. Anyway, lucky for me, she let the girls model some hats and I got the BEST pictures from the Fantastic photographer Raquel. I have some of Lily too, I will post later.

Time goes way too fast

Seriously, when you have kids I feel like time speeds up like crazy! This is my girl only 8 months ago and now her hair is so long, she doesn't wear diapers anymore, and these cowgirl boots are way too small! I want to just freeze my kids sometimes and stop them from growing up, but I guess I will just have to keep taking tons of pictures so I never forget all their little faces and phases.

Big Girl Ella

Ella loves to sit in the booster chair and eat her cereal at the table, I think she likes feeling a part of the group and being near Lily when she eats her lunch. And we are working hard to get her sitting up all by herself for longer than 15 seconds, she likes the boppy support. It is so fun to see her growing and learning new things, like she just figured out how to roll multiple times in order to get around more, even though she still can only roll to her right side. And she absolutlely LOVES her big sister, anytime Lily is in the room her attention is riveted to her and her favorite thing (and sure to get a big laugh from her) is to jumo on the bed with Lily.

MAKE-UP

So Lily got this cute little make-up set last year for her birthday and I had put it away not wanting to deal with the inevitable mess it would create. Well, the cold weather has come again and wanting to give Lily something else to occupy her time inside I unveiled this little beauty. Before she could open it I made her swear to uphold the universal rules of make-up which are : 1. Make-up only goes on your face, NOT WALLS, OR CARPET, OR TOYS, OR BABY SISTERS
2. You can only use make-up if you first get permission from a parent
3. If you do not follow the rules make-up will be taken away until you are more mature to handle it.
Basically, I wanted to impress upon her what a big deal it was. We even got Dad to put up her little shelf under her mirror so she could have somewhere to put it. I have since thought I am crazy for giving a 2 year old play make-up, but it has kept her busy for a bit these past few days and it is so light you can hardly tell she has any on at all. Of course it has been taken away after finding it on things other than her face. But overall, way too cute to see her get all dolled up.