15 Month Appointment

This is a little late, but Ellie had her 15 month Well Child Checkup at the doctor's office. She's still underweight (5th percentile), with a giant head (97th percentile). Yes, we do have trouble putting shirts on over her massive noggin, in case you were wondering.

She got her immunizations. It was heartbreaking this time because she knew exactly what was going on. The second the nurse came in the room and we made her lay down, she started screaming. Poor baby!

Who would be heartless enough to forever document the pain she had to endure with a picture, you might ask? Well it wasn't me. I'm not that cruel. (Although, I AM posting this on the blog, so I guess that doesn't make me any better.)

Mike thought it would be a good idea to give her a Dum-Dum afterwards, to try and stop the crying and get her mind off the trauma. Yeah, it didn't work so well. Especially when we had to take it away from her to put her jacket on. She screamed even worse than when she got the shots. But she sure looked adorable eating a sucker on her own.

I think I know the reason why the sucker didn't assuage the pain. It's because Mike picked the Mystery Flavor Dum-Dum from the bowl. Everyone knows the Mystery Flavor Dum-Dums are foul. I would've cried too, Ellie!

Techno-Baby

Ellie + iPod = cute photo opportunity

It's actually really cute. She'll just sit on my dad's lap and bounce to the music. (And yes... that's chocolate all over her face. I have no control over what she eats when I'm at work.)

And now she has turned the iPod into an iPhone. "Hi mama" she says.

You can tell we're from different generations. These are the phones I used to play with.

How times change! Ellie won't even know what this is.

Giddy up!

The other morning, Ellie woke up a little earlier than normal. I had worked the night before and was still groggy when I went to get her. I took her back to our room and had her lay down next to me in the bed. She contentedly laid there, while I rubbed her belly. Then she started babbling in Ellie-speak, which consists mainly of gibberish with a "puppy" or "cookie" thrown in every once in awhile. She looked at me and said, "Daddy? Daddy?" Then she turned around to try and find Mike, who was sound asleep on the other side of the bed. She sat up, scrambled over to him and started climbing on top of him. She planted her little diaper bum right on top of his head, with one leg on either side of him. She looked at me, cracked a huge grin and said, "Horsey! Horsey!" as she started bouncing up and down on the unsuspecting daddy's head. I'm not sure if Mike thought it was very funny, but I've never laughed so hard! She just keeps getting cuter!

Déjà vu

Didn't we just do this? For the third time in 16 months, we moved. This time it's back to South Jordan to live with my parents. They are kind enough to house us for 3 months before we make ANOTHER move to Phoenix in July. Ugh... I hate moving.

Things I'll miss about Murray:

1) My 3 minute commute to work.
2) Our 5 minute walk to the library.
3) Living within 5 minutes of just about every store or restaurant you can imagine.

Things I WON'T miss about Murray:

1) The incredibly squeaky floors in our apartment.
2) Being able to hear everything our neighbors were doing, and vice versa.
3) The creepy people in the apartment complex down the street from us.

Another nice thing about moving now is that all of our stuff is packed away in a storage unit and is ready to throw in a U-haul when the time comes.

Packing with a 15 month old toddler was fun. Well, maybe fun isn't the right word for it. Challenging. Yeah, challenginig is more like it. Bless her heart, she sure thought she was helping. She mainly just took things out of boxes.

Here are a few pictures of her other contributions:

Swimming in a box of foam peanuts.

Somebody has to eat all the extra food in our pantry. Thanks for stepping up to the plate, Ellie.

Nilla Wafers actually distracted her long enough for us to get stuff done. Thank you Nilla Wafers!

Now we just have to survive the move to Phoenix and hopefully we'll settle down in one place for a few years.

Summer?

I woke up this morning and checked the weather on KSL. Imagine my surprise when I saw this:

Does that mean summer is here?