Ellie at 4 Months Old (and 5 mths old)!

So I'm a month late with this one, oops! But here it is...She loves adventure! Good thing because this boy keeps her on her toes everyday! He pushes her really high in here but she just loves it. She adores Colt and her sisters. When ever any of them come near her she can't help but smile that adorable smile!

Here's her stats:

Weight: 18 lbs. 3 oz. (98.71%)

(Colt at 4 months was 16 lbs. 7 oz.-I thought he was big!)

Height: 25.5" (82.60%)

Head: 16.54" (69.61%)

Thigh rolls: 3. And sweet as can be.

She is such a sweet baby! I can't get enough of squeezing her and kissing her. She smiles a ton, laughs some, loves rolling all over the place, loves singing, still gets the hiccups at least once a day, loves playing with her feet and sucking on them too, loves the bath, loves her brother and sister, and sleeps through the night!!!

Love bath time, and moving stroller time. Doesn't like the car much anymore. Wants to eat. If I could just remember to buy baby food!!

Smiley girl. Laughs at Colt the most and loud screams. Loves her fingers and toes. Grabs at everything and is strong and fast. Swipes at anything in reach. Rolling is her method of travel. Covers the room in seconds when she wants to. Spits up kind of a lot. Doesn't like the car seat much anymore and likes to try me with a cry every time I put her down. But then she is happy on the floor usually.

A cute little Halloween chicken!

Rachel and Livy as chickens 4 years ago!

She is a smiley happy baby. We are so happy you are here Ellie. I am so in love with you!

She really loves her toes. She loves playing with them and now sucking on them. When she is laying on the floor she sucks her big toe instead of her thumb. Funny girl!

This is Rachel as a baby and the pictures below are obviously Livy and Rae as babies, just to clarify! I still think Ellie looks the most like Rachel as a baby but now that I have these pictures to compare her too I don't think she looks as much like Rachel as I thought in my memory that she did. Some pictures more than others. Ellie really looks like both Rachel and Livy mixed together.

Ok, but definitely still more like Rachel! Crazy that they were so little once, and it was only 4 years ago!

So lucky to have sisters forever! We love watching you grow Ellie. You make us all so happy! We love you!

Smiles

Colt, Ellie, and I spent Halloween morning at the park. It was great weather and so nice to be outside.  Ellie was all smiles in her stroller for a few minutes and then she took a nice nap in there for the rest of the time.

Cutie pie!

Colt was all over the place but loved it. He fed the ducks for a bit, played on the slide and swing, chased a squirel, kept asking why he couldn't touch the ducks and squirel, accused a nice puppy he was petting of biting him, and tried tasting an acorn.

Lots of pictures of Colt here. Like any mom I just think my (dare I say) baby, is so cute so I couldn't decide on which were my favorites!

Acorn.

He was sitting on my lap while we swung and he kept yelling "higher" and cracking us both up. It sure is great spending a really nice morning together. I loved it.

Yard of the Month

Eric has wanted Yard of the Month since we moved into this house. For a while he got mildly obsessed about it and every month would wonder what he needed to change in the yard to get it. They he finally gave up. I don't think I have heard anything about it in about 7 months. Then at the beginning of October the doorbell rang and they said we got yard of the month! I was just laughing and couldn't wait to tell Eric because I knew he would love it.

I was meaning to take a picture of Eric with the kids near the sign before the end of the month but everyday I would forget. So this is the last day of October and I figured I better take one before they take the sign. So I used what I had, Colt and Ellie in a car seat!

Halloween

Halloween was great! The kids loved it and all did great. No complaining about walking or anything! (a big feat around here) We met up with some cousins and they girls had so much fun just running ahead from house to house.

Ellie was a chicken and loved lounging in the stroller. She was an adorable chicken! The girls wore that costume for their first Halloween too.

The best we could do!

They were excited to get going and the other kids already started walking so I barely got this picture. We rushed out of the house so I am going to make them put the costumes on again tomorrow and take another picture!

Colt had so much fun walking around and carrying his bucket. He was always a  house or two behind the big kids but he kept going. He didn't want to be carried or pushed in the stroller. He kept saying no. His bucket got almost full and he was totally leaning over to the side trying to carry it. I tried to empty out some into the stroller but he just cried "my candy" until I put it back in! He was so adorable and quite a trooper.

I like this pictures of them two, even though Colt didn't want the ride, we had to force him to catch up to the girls!

Ellie stayed in the stroller most of the time. She was snug in her chicken suit!

Halloween morning the girls had school. They got to parade around and trick or treat around to some other classrooms and then had a Halloween party. It was an awesome day at school. Their bags got full to the top with fun stuff from their teacher, other kids, party stuff, and of course candy!

The Ladybug class. It was their funny face picture. They had a absolutely great day! They got to skype with Grammy, Poppy, and Hannah in New York. Grandma Brenda came trick or treating with them. And we went to visit our friends the Ivey's on the way home from trick or treating and they had a ball locking everyone up with play handcuffs. Halloween was a great day, but I was exhausted!

Some Halloween Stuff

The kids had an awesome time at the ward trunk or treat. They played some games put on by the young men and young women and then loved running around the parking lot getting the idea of trick or treating all over again! Colt hung out with Eric and handed out candy for a while and then once he got going he loved trick or treating. He says "trick treat" and thank you so cute!

Rachel and Olivia were Rapunzel and Colt was Thomas the train. Ellie is going to be a chicken for Halloween but she was a ballerina this night because it was too hot for her chicken costume!

Time to carve pumpkins! Olivia was especially excited to help dad with them! They each picked out a stencil that we carved for them. Livy picked a dog. 

Rachel picked a cat. 

Colt picked a spider. 

And we did the best we could. They loved them though.  

Boo! Colt kept singing Happy Birthday once he saw us light the candles in the pumpkins.

That is a really big "cheese."

I don't know if we will be able to keep up with them this year. They are so excited to trick or treat and can run pretty fast now, and never run out of energy!