It's about TIME I updated this blog!

Ellis has a lot of updates for you, so let me get started.

We rounded out the end of summer vacation by playing with water in the back yard.

Ellis is ready to take off...maybe not quite yet, but her little lamb chops are getting stronger and stronger everyday.

This is how big Ellis looks lying next to her Dad's shoe:

One of her favorite new tricks:

At our first annual NICU alumni reunion picnic:

I ate a lot of sugar that day. A lot.

How Ellis spent most of the picnic:

Bath time is no excuse for NOT grabbing your feet.

Ellis' pallet has been broadened to include rice cereal! Here are some pictures of her first time eating cereal. Overall, she seemed to enjoy it with a couple of gagging exceptions:

Ellis with her buddy Keaton:

6 MONTHS!

Ellis is half way through her first year! Six months already!

We of course celebrated by taking an insane amount of pictures.

Ellis is half way to 1 year, and I am now half way to sixty! I hit the big 3 - 0 and celebrated with a bunch of my favorite foods and a few of my favorite people.

The six month old after her bath:

Ellis with her buddy Amelie in the fort Amelie made for them :)

Next week is my last full week of summer vacation. I don't know where the time went!