the willetts: Ella Grace: {11 months old}

Ella's 11th month was spent with a lot family and friends! The holidays just never end...WHICH WE LOVE!

playing with Christmas gifts...

and her Favorite Aunts!...

While Uncle Andres and Aunt Nicki were in town, we went to the Houston Zoo Lights.

She LOVES looking at herself in the mirror and taking selfie pictures!

Happy New Year!!!

To ring in the new year, we went to one of our favorite parks, Mary Jo Peckham!

Colin is THE BEST BIG BROTHER!

Table food has been a new fun adventure for Ella! So far she likes everything!!!!

She wants to hold the food and bite on it, she refuses small pieces!

hot dogs, blueberry muffins and bananas

Another "first" for Ella this month...Chic Fil A nuggets!!!!

meat sticks and pears...

ravioli, mac & cheese, and avocado...

chocolate chip cookies...

corn dogs...

She was screaming at me to hold it! So I let her have it for a minute, took a picture then cut it apart for her. :)

turkey and cheese "sandwich"...

All this table food is giving her a lot of energy!

She is CRAWLING around trying to catch Colin's remote control car and stopping to CLAP for him every few minutes.

We went on a Family Date Night on Jan. 2 to celebrate our anniversary. We went to Fizolli's for spaghetti and meatballs, then headed to bowl at Time Square Bowling.

Ella ate her first meatball and garlic bread! To say that she loved it is an understatement...

she didn't sleep well at night though, must have been the garlic!

She has started "fighting going to bed"... see her sitting up in the right corner of the camera?! She doesn't dot his every night, just when Colin and Ava are still up and playing. Ella is becoming aware of all of the fun she could be missing.

God has blessed me beyond measure with these two Beauties!

this is one of my FAVORITE pictures...EVER!

Mommy and Daddy went on a date night and the girls insisted on taking a picture with us before we left. ;)

She FINALLY loves the bath tub! She started taking big girl bath a couple months ago but now she is happy and playing and gets mad when we take her out!

Big Brother Colin turned 8 on Jan. 8 (post coming soon...hopefully) and we had a family lunch date at SSE!

And went to Chuck E Cheeses! It was Ella's first time!!!

Ella's first time in a shopping cart!!!!

We were at party city picking up the balloons and other decor for Colin's party.

On Sunday Jan. 12, Ella moved up to the "crawlers" room at church!!!!! We waited an extra week so her first time could be with one of our favorite families...The Hester's! Ella did SO GREAT and got a little extra TLC from Tay Tay!

It was a big Sunday for Ms. Bitty...she took her first ride on the RPC Rocking Horse!!!! Could she BE ANY CUTER?!

How to entertain an almost 1 year old while cooking dinner...

she is DONE with the bouncer and play-saucer!

There is never a DULL moment in our house...

Both of the girls caught a cold and Ella was introduced to Ellie, the humidifier.

She got her first bump/bruise/red mark on her forehead...she was crawling and slipped and hit her head on the floor...

it's above and below her right eye.

She doesn't seem to mind much!

While the girls we trying to fight the cold, the kids at Kendall's were passing a fever around so, we took a day off of school to try and get away from the germs. And, surprised Colin at school for lunch!

THIS is happening people!!!!

Ella was SO proud of herself! I couldn't get her down for a nap the whole day...

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Kendall was closed for a few days so Papa and Nonnie took over...

and apparently, taught Ella how to twerk...

Now that Ella has figured out how to pull-up, she wants to stand everywhere she can!

Ava (left) and Ella (right), both at 10 1/2 months old!

Silly girls!

Ella and her BFF, Zoe...

Ella was starting to out grow her infant carrier and, in turn, went back to hating riding in the car. So, we used some of her Christmas money and bought her a new car seat. We have one like this from when Colin turned 1, Ava is using it now (and has been since she turned 1) and we plan on keeping Ella in this one for years too.

We gave a little test run in the dining room and measured the straps too.

We went to Beaumont for a long weekend for an Annual Baseball Camp (separate post on the way). The camp is usually held the first weekend of December but the weather kept pushing it up. I drove all the kids and Oscar down to Beaumont after lunch on our ice day and Pete met us there on Saturday after finishing work in New Orleans.