Photography by Nathan

A picture of his puppy,

And one in black and white.

The grill through the screen,

And of course a selfie!

Ellie-isms.

Here are a few funny things about Ellie that I have been keeping track of for the past few months. She keeps us on our toes, that's for sure!

1. Ellie: "when I grow up, I want to be a chicken."

2. Conversation with boy at library:

Ellie: our house is so messy (thanks, Ellie! :) )

Boy: do you know what my grandma does? She cleans up and vacuums. You should do that. (Yeah, maybe I should get on that! ;) )

3. The kids were all in their rooms supposed to be napping. I could hear them making noise and laughing, but I didn't do anything because I was in the middle of a workout. After awhile I called in to Ellie that she better be in her bed, and she said "can I nap with Jonah in my room?" I said no, and she said "well he is in here." I went to go see, and sure enough she had somehow gotten him out of his playpen without hurting him and without me hearing. When I asked her how he got out of bed she said "the wind blew him out."

4. Ellie ate all of her popcorn and was trying to convince Nathan to give her some of his. After trying for awhile she said "If you give me some popcorn I'll marry you!" It worked.

5. Ellie: "Mom, did you know reindeers can smell lion poop?"

6. We were at the library, and the kids always run to the fish tank as soon as we get there. Ellie saw that one of the fish was dead and said, "Mom, why is that fish swimming upside down?"

And I love finding these blurry selfies on my phone.

While Daddy is Away: Day 9

I didn't get this up last night. Oops!

Ellie got ahold of my phone while I was in the shower and took a few pictures.

Love that silly girl.

And we braved the library. Whew! Let me just say, that was an adventure!

See how Ellie doesn't have shoes on? Her and Eve decided that it would be fun to take them off and I didn't notice for a little while. Go me.

Library selfie! The big black blob in from if me is Jonah in the carrier.

All of siblings except Eve went to go see my cousin get home from his mission, so we decided to make cookies.

 

I forgot that people were coming to swimming lessons at the house, so I stopped in the middle of making cookies to take care of one of the lady's babies, and when I came back to the cookies about an hour later (all of my siblings had gotten back at that point) all if the cookie dough was gone.

So much for cookies!

A Funny Picture

Gotta love Photobooth. It could keep Ellie entertained for a very long time.

Life Through Ellie's Eyes

         So Ellie likes to take pictures with my phone. Most of them are of herself, of course. And I think they are quite funny:

Just lounging on mom and dad's bed.

Getting gas.

Bed head!

Legs.

More legs, but with shoes this time.

          She also takes pictures of Nathan occasionally. 

She went in to see him in the morning, threw her stuffed dog into his play pen, and immediately came running back to grab my phone so she could take a picture.

     And, of course, she takes pictures of me. But they are not blog appropriate. You know - me nursing the baby, using the bathroom - there are no locks on the doors in this house, so there is no privacy around here. Her most recent picture was of me getting dressed. Awesome. I deleted that one, pronto.

     You never know when the camera may be around!

Love,