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Heads Up

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The other day Jayden was in the bath and Ella was in there talking with him. She was secretly in her head trying to figure out how she could get herself in the bath tub with him. How do I know this as I’m sitting in the other room? She does it every single time I’m in the bath. She tries to launch her foot over the side of the tub.

I told Gino continuously stay in there with her! He thought I was crazy. There’s no way she’s going to get in there with him.

LUCKILY ~ Supermom was in the bathroom with her phone to snap pics when Ella flips over into the tub. She was so proud of herself.

She thinks she’s scarier than the monsters!

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Ella is not scared of all the Halloween stuff. Instead of crying she growls at it. She really thinks she’s scary too!

She saw a fish yesterday while Gino was fishing on the Wii and said, “Fish!” She’s growing up. She’s imitating everything we do, and even likes to wash her own hair. She’s such a little dare devil and so opposite of Jayden. It’s so crazy how they all have their own little personalities.

I feel so fortunate that I’ve been able to stay home with Ella. I hope that I don’t have to go back to working in an office ever again, but I know someday I will. Even though I get frustrated sometimes and just want to get away, I wouldn’t trade this life for anything.

Princess

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I woke up this morning and I swear she got bigger. Her face is getting more matured and the look in her eyes shows that she understands just that much more.

She’s 13 1/2 months and she doesn’t seem like it. She already knows what she wants and knows how to get it. She loves to pick on her brother and her face lights up at the sight of him. She’s got a head full of curls and already has her first 2 molars.

The phone rings and she grabs anything she can to put up to her ear to say, “Hello?” She still loves to dance and I still can’t wait to get her into classes.

She loves to stand on things and try to balance herself…. it scares me half to death, but she loves it ~ however, when she falls she doesn’t seem too happy. Sometimes she’ll get herself in a situation just so she can whine…. I think she likes the sound AND IT’S A SOUND I DO NOT LIKE!

She’s my princess, and she knows it…. she even can say princess.

Doctor Visit Breakdowns

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Let’s start off with her 1 year checkup. She’s highly advanced, growing perfectly and a devil child. Yes, my doctor called her a devil child. It’s okay though, he saved her life so he can call her whatever he’d like. She’s 21.5 lbs and 30 In. long.

Things she’s doing…. eating EVERYTHING. She actually is quite obsessed with food, which is a little bit of a worry for me, but she loves veggies which makes me happy! She’s learned how to throw fits, which is no fun. We’re going to try the ignoring technique and see if it works. She still loves to dance, so as soon as I can get her into dancing she’ll be in it. I think I already said before that she’s off the bottle ~ she’s been off of it for about a month (maybe a little more) now. She loves video games and loves to turn the video games off when people (daddy and brother) are playing them. She loves buttons to press, especially if they turn off things so that she can look at everyone with a satisfied smile.

Things Ella says: See, Jay, Benjamin (this is new), bye, mine, mama, dad, please, working on thank you, all done…. I think there’s more but I can’t think of any more.

I haven’t updated with a video or pictures lately and I’m a total loser for that. Sorry.

Cardiologist appointment was today and I must say her doctor is such a sweet man! The girl who was getting her stats was looking at her and said, has she been in this hospital before? Did she go into SVT? I told her, yeah, when she was 7 weeks old. She said that she was in the room when they shocked her heart. She said she’d never seen anything like it before. They weren’t very hopeful that day, because nothing would get her heart rate down. So scary.

Anyways, so the doctor came in and said that if the EKG comes back good then he wants me to cut her medicine in half for 1 week and then the following week completely stop. Then he’d want a holter monitor on her for 24 hours to see what her heart is up to. I got nervous. The thought of Ella not having her protective shielding medicine had my anxiety up a little. EKG showed there’s still WPW, so we just continue on with what we’re doing and we’ll be back to see him in 6 months.

Happy Monday

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Happy Monday. I have a lot of blogging to catch up on. You’d be surprised that I actually have a list of things I need to post about. I’m so overwhelmed right now. I have a huge list of things to do for work, and that has to get done TODAY! So, why in the heck am I on here babbling? Well, I had to get a few things off of my chest.

Jayden is starting 1st grade in a week. In a flipping week my baby will be in 1st grade!!!!!!! I’m happy for him that he’ll be back in the routine things of life and he won’t be bored with me. Sadly, his girlfriend is not in his class this year. His response to this was, “Ah, bummer!” Poor guy.

Ella has a molar that broke through. It’s all the way in the back on her upper right. I think that explains the couple nights of tossing, turning and SCREAMING! She’s growing up so fast, and she just gets cuter and cuter every single day! The way she runs is just adorable, and I especially think it’s cute when I come home from being somewhere and she runs to me, grabs on to my legs and hugs. She is such a sweet soul.

Ella has a cardiologist appointment tomorrow. She got a blessing last night from the missionaries, and I just pray that her WPW has corrected itself miraculously. I don’t want this sweet baby girl to have to have a surgery done. We’ve been lucky enough to stay out of the hospitals for 10 months! That’s an answered prayer if you ask me. She’s been nothing but healthy, happy and I hope for a continued future in this manner.

Things with Mitch are going the same. I don’t know if he got that job yet or not, I’m crossing my fingers and praying. It’s hard having another person living in my home. I try to keep my head up, but it’s difficult. The thing that bothers me is he’s here to better his life and yet his long term plan is to move back to Sacramento, because he’s going to be 21. Makes me not want to help him. He’s got a kid now, and he should be thinking about family stuff and not partying. It’s time to grow up. You don’t get to party and have fun when you have kids to raise, because if that’s the choice you make, then your kids will grow up knowing only that and how sad they’ll turn out to be.

I’m on day 9 of no coffee. I never thought I’d be able to do this.

Mean Baby!

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Baby girls are SO HARD! It might have something to do with her being a Leo, but wow ~ she thinks she runs this house. Maybe I should rephrase and say SHE RUNS THIS HOUSE! If her brother has something that she wants she will fight for it. She pulls hair, hits and has even attempted to bite. I promise, she really is sweet on top of all of this, but they sure learn young don’t they?

A little of this and that

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My computer is on the outs. It all started with that minor little printing problem, which turned into a total between 2 days of 6 hours on the phone with Dell and a laptop with nothing on it. Luckily, I went and bought an external hard drive and put everything that’s needed on it. I went and picked up my Grandma’s laptop and now I’m back to work.

I anticipate another few hours with Dell today, and if they don’t fix it I’m demanding a new computer. That’s what warranty is all about, right?

Changing subject here:

Last night I was going to go to the first book club meeting at our church and was sadly EXTREMELY excited about it. However, we’re at the store and Ella throws up all over herself. I feel her head and I swore she was burning up. So, we’re off to buying pedialyte and pediapops and stuff to make her feel better ~ preparing for the flu. So, I call Miss Amy Hill and let her know that I will not be showing up and we’re off to home to deal with a sick baby. So, we get home and guess what ~ no fever and she’s not sick. Lovely.

New subject again…………:

My birthday is on Thursday!!!! And I’m getting a new camera!! I’m going to pick it out today and I’m just not sure yet what I want to do. I could either go with a Nikon or a Canon Rebel. Right down the street from my house is a camera shop and I’m going to go and have him explain them to me today. Pretty soon you’ll see beautiful pictures of my babies (not that you haven’t already LOL)

In 1 month she’ll be 1

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It’s been decided. We are having Ella’s 1st Birthday party in Sacramento. The hotel that we always stay at when we come to visit has a big pool and convention rooms that they are going to let us use. So, the party will be inside for all the cake, presents & fun stuff and then when it’s all over we will be having a pool party!!

We’ll be having a couple of small parties in Oregon. One with the Hurd family at a pizza parlor, and then I was thinking of having a small little party for my friends at Lithia Park. Something small, but fun for Ella.

But I CAN’T WAIT TO GO TO SACRAMENTO!!!! I miss everyone so much and I can’t wait for everyone who hasn’t met Ella yet to finally meet her. I’m going to start making her invitations this week and get them mailed out.