Ella Grace: {5 months old}

Babies at this age are SO MUCH FUN! I love watching Ella's little personality start to come out. She loves to be entertained...whether its by her toys or her siblings, she always needs stimulus....or she will "yell" at you!

 

She now gets frustrated with her toys in her play gym because she grabs them and tries bring them to her mouth but they won't come off the chain. lol. 

 

 

 

The only way she will nap in her crib...I know, I know...there shouldn't be anything in the bed with her. This nap lasted only like 10 minutes and never happened again.

She does, however, always have her blanket and binkie.

 

 

Ella LOVES to laugh and smile! And because I always have a camera close by, I am able to capture a lot of her happiness!

 

 

Ella has mastered grabbing toys and putting them in her mouth...

 

 

She is ALMOST rolling over!

 

 

Mommy (team Binkie) and the Thumb are still having a battle...the thumb wins most of the time.

 

 

She still enjoys the pool!

We went to the splash pad, for the first time as a family of 5, and she loved that too! I guess Ella will be a water baby just like the other two.

 

And the most exciting part of her 5th month was that she tried rice cereal and LOVED it!

I will be blogging a separate post for this soon!

 

 

 

 

 

5 month photo shoot

July 26, 2013

 

 

Ella Grace @ 5 months old:

drinking 4-5 oz every 3 hours

oatmeal for breakfast and rice cereal for dinner!

weighs ??? I think she is up to 12 pounds. We will weigh her on her 6 month birthday and get an accurate weight.

diapers: Pampers Swaddlers size 1

clothes: She still wears 3 month clothes! My tiny angel baby! I've tried some small 6 month jammies and they are still too big! Socks STILL don't stay on her feet because her ankles are still skinny and she always rubs her feet together and plays.

 

I CAN NOT believe she will be 6 months old in 2 days....

 

 

 

Summer Camp 2013: {connolly dance arts}

 

This summer Ava was a student at the Connolly Dance Arts Studio in Katy. She has never danced before so we wanted to try out this 6 week class before we signed her up for a whole year.

 

She LOVES dancing (at home) and was more than excited to get dressed for her first class.

She is the most beautiful ballerina I've ever seen!

 

 

It was an early morning...

 

Ava was such a big girl! She walked upto her teacher and the other girls all by herself. She was a little nervous but didn't turn back or try and stay with Mommy. She is getting so big!

 

We can't see into the studio through a window but we can see and hear everything on a large TV. I took tons of pictures and videos of Ava's first dance lesson EVER! She's the one on the X, in the middle of the row.

 

She did such an amazing job! A lot of the class is coping the teacher and dancing along to "music and movement" songs. Ava was one of the only girls in the class that followed directions and danced along correctly the whole class. I cried several times....

 

I told Ava that I was so proud of her and she looked like a beautiful princess and that she made me cry. She asked me if I was sad and I had to some how explain to her that it was a happy cry.

Then, she would ask me if I cried after every class. :)

 

Ava and Ms. Laura.

 

Big Brother Colin came to a few classes too!

Again...9:30 is an early morning for us Willetts...

 

Ella is such little sweetie "helping" big Sissy!

 

Ava was the line leader one morning and was SO HAPPY!

 

 

During the last class, we were invited into the studio. I was worried Ava wouldn't "perform" with us watching her...Boy, was I wrong. She danced her little heart out!!! Once again, she was one of the only girls that stayed on point and followed directions the whole class.

 

 

We took advantage of the pretty scenery near the studio.

 

I just noticed that Ella was wearing the same dress for Ava's first and last lessons. HA.

 

Thanks Nonnie for taking this precious picture of me and my beauties!

 

Our fall schedule is crazy with football, bible study, swim lessons and just getting back into the swing of things so Ava won't go back to dance class until January. I can't wait to see where her love of dance takes her!