It is hard to believe that Ella has already had her first Thanksgiving and Christmas! Kris is on break from teaching, and it is nice to have some free time. We've spent a lot more time together as a family the past two weeks. We've made chocolate snowballs, strung popcorn and decorated the Christmas tree with it and paper ring garland. We even found Ella her very own Christmas pickle! We've had a lot of fun this holiday season, complete with two turkey dinners. For both Thanksgiving and Christmas, we cooked a whole turkey in our new hand-me-down oven. They were small turkeys, but they were delicious. The leftover turkey sandwiches were especially delicious!
Ella has four teeth and loves to eat some squash, carrots, and sweet potatoes. She likes green beans, too, but they're not her favorite! She is rolling around the apartment and sitting up by herself these days too. She'll be crawling any day now.
We got together with the old lab for Christmas Eve and had a great time. Ella had so much fun that she fell asleep at the party.
Ella got lots of new toys and a great new bathtub for Christmas. She loves everything so much that she can't decide what to play with first. (Of course, she initially settled on the wrapping paper.)
Below are a few more photos of Ella from the past month or two.
Happy New Year!
We hope to see y'all in 2014!
