Looks Like....

More and more comments lately about how Ella is looking more like her Mama! :) A few people we bumped into this weekend each said a few things...."wow - Ella is really beginning to look like Ashley!" I still can't tell one way or the other...she's just a good combination of the two of us! The other thing we heard multiple times...."look how much hair she's gotten!" There are a few families that we see every Sunday at church. As Josh held Ella in his lap on Sunday morning, one of the ladies came up to us and said, "I think her hair grew over an inch since last week!" It really didn't...but it is getting long! I tried putting a headband on her to match her outfit before church....she kept pulling it off...I tried about 5 times, each time it got yanked off! That went hand and hand with her hat this morning...it was 21 degrees at 7:30 this morning as we were leaving...so I wanted to put a hat on her...well I got quite the grouchy face from her as I pulled the hat on...she tried to pull it off - but was unsuccessful!

This morning on our way to the sitters I pulled over to check on Ella. As you know - car seats are rear-facing...so in each of our cars we have mirror's set up so we can see her....well Ella fell asleep on the drive (usually happens!) but her head went forward in her car seat and the combination of her hat on her head and the blanket on her lap...I couldn't see her face and it was bothering me. So I pulled off into a restaurant parking lot and as I get ready to stop the car she pulls her head back to lean against the car seat....that made me happy...I didn't even have to get out in the cold!

We have quite a routine every morning....the very last thing to happen is I bring everything out to the car and start it up (to warm it up) and run inside to put my work clothes on (those go on last as too many accidents have happened when I try to put my work clothes on early in the morning!) So while I run downstairs I always put Ella on the living room floor on her back on her little activity mat - which has toys, etc on it. This morning I run downstairs, get my work clothes on, run back upstairs and Ella is in the middle of the hallway on the hardwood floor on her back looking up at me...I just looked and her and laughed...so apparently she is quite the little mover...how she got where she did - I have no idea....she was quick! I don't know if she rolled or just scooted her way over...but from now on she will go in her carseat - then I will run downstairs and get dressed and out the door we will go!

Ella was in such a great mood tonight...I picked her up at 5. I walked in to the sitters and she was sitting on the floor playing with toys...the second she saw me she dropped her toys and stuck her arms out for me to pick her up (with a big smile on her face!) She was talkative tonight as well...I heard lots of "mama's!" She got a bath...bath time means she gets to play with a pink rubber duckie...she loves that thing! Then she gets to get all warm and toasty in her PJ's....and then we had picture time...