Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Iowa in the Fall!
Ellis and I flew to Iowa for a week and a day to visit family and friends. Ellis got to be with her Great Aunts Krissi ("Kissy") and Debi (whose name she loved saying, even when Debi wasn't around :), her Grandma, Grandpa, Great Granny, Great Grandfather and buddy, Max.
I loved seeing the multi-colored trees changing while we were there, and Ellis loved crunching in the leaves that had already dropped:
Here is Ellis with her Grandpa. She was a little bitter that I asked her to stop stomping in the leaves long enough to pose for a photo with Grandpa :)
This was the wagon I played with as a child. Crazy!
Here's our four generations of mother-daughter. Granny is doing REALLY well after some rough stuff and a hospital stay---which was so wonderful to see. Granny back to being Granny :)
Mom put Ellis on the slides (at ELLIS park) for the first time without someone sliding with her. She thought it was SO FUN. Her hair got really static-y which was pretty funny :)
If I recall, this shot is of her first slide down:
Pretty, pretty, pretty...
I'm holding Ellis' right hand, Mom's holding her left and we're swinging her. That's what's happening in this shot:
Teeny girl. Big tree.
Playing with all the toys at Dave and Karen's when we went down to visit Jessica and Max. We had so much fun seeing them all. Ellis loved the hats :)
Ellis had a very busy week and naps happened wherever I could get her to nap. Here she is in a chair at Granny and Frank's with her new "baby".
Uh! She's so sweet.
It was a great week, but we missed Gabe. The morning after we got home, I heard Ellis over the monitor first thing upon waking up, saying, "Daddy. Daddy," in her sweetest voice. Not like she was calling to him, just like she was thinking about him fondly after finally getting to see him briefly the night before when we arrived home.
I loved seeing the multi-colored trees changing while we were there, and Ellis loved crunching in the leaves that had already dropped:
Here is Ellis with her Grandpa. She was a little bitter that I asked her to stop stomping in the leaves long enough to pose for a photo with Grandpa :)
This was the wagon I played with as a child. Crazy!
Here's our four generations of mother-daughter. Granny is doing REALLY well after some rough stuff and a hospital stay---which was so wonderful to see. Granny back to being Granny :)
Mom put Ellis on the slides (at ELLIS park) for the first time without someone sliding with her. She thought it was SO FUN. Her hair got really static-y which was pretty funny :)
If I recall, this shot is of her first slide down:
Pretty, pretty, pretty...
I'm holding Ellis' right hand, Mom's holding her left and we're swinging her. That's what's happening in this shot:
Teeny girl. Big tree.
Playing with all the toys at Dave and Karen's when we went down to visit Jessica and Max. We had so much fun seeing them all. Ellis loved the hats :)
Ellis had a very busy week and naps happened wherever I could get her to nap. Here she is in a chair at Granny and Frank's with her new "baby".
Uh! She's so sweet.
It was a great week, but we missed Gabe. The morning after we got home, I heard Ellis over the monitor first thing upon waking up, saying, "Daddy. Daddy," in her sweetest voice. Not like she was calling to him, just like she was thinking about him fondly after finally getting to see him briefly the night before when we arrived home.
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