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These pictures pretty much speak for themselves

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

 This picture can be your Birthday present Uncle Bobby. This picture cracks me up.
Elliot cracks us up too. We like her little personality. 18 months on Sunday! Nursery here we come!
-She is starting to talk a little more. She says "Mine" and "No" very clearly :) My favorite is, "here go", when she wants to hand us something. and as seen in the picture,"cheese" she also says "shoes" very cute but i don't know if anyone else would understand.
-She likes clothes. but not for the reason you'd think. She will grab any article of clothing near her and snuggle it under her chin for a minute.
-She loves babies and stuffed animals.
-She always opens up sandwiches including sandwich cookies ie: Oreos and eats the middles.
-When she wants to get your attention or she is closely examining something she will tilt her head to the side. It is very cute. and lately if she doesn't want something she will tuck her chin in her shoulder and turn away.
-Sometimes she is a picky eater. She definitely loves sweets and meat. If its anything else we have discovered that she will let Ezra feed her :)
-She loves her brothers. She will get into giggle fests with both of them. She still loves peek-a boo. and cracks up when Rowdy crawls towards her.
-She has a mischievous streak. You can see it in her eyes before she does something tricky. She likes to bug Ezra. She will walk up and take his toy just to see what he does or sometimes she will hug him from behind to tease him, and then she will laugh.
-She is also very tender hearted. If she hurts someone and we call her out on it, she will start crying.  And if she sees Cody or I patting one of the boys she will come over and pat them too.
-She will come in and clap for Ezra as he is learning to potty train. and she likes to sit on the toilet just for a few seconds.
-She still only has her front 8 teeth
-She is hilarious around dogs & other animals. She loves them from afar and then freiks when they get close.
We are just loving this time with her. She is at a fun age. She keeps us giggling. Love you Ellie Belly

elli-ven

It is a rare thing to catch Elliot sitting still any more.

She is self entertaining ( most of the time) & busy checking things out. She loves the... love sac, and will crawl up and down it for half hours. She likes to play peek-a-boo, but she thinks if she can't see you/ you can't see her. So she just turns her head back and forth. She loves baths. She has 2 teeth now. The top sides :) but that doesn't stop her from grubbing down on the table food. We haven't found anything she doesn't like yet, but if she isn't in the mood for softy baby food she is a great spitter = not so great if you are the feeder.

She walks along things and is starting to let us walk her with our fingers. She is a fast crawler. and fast to swipe at your face. She head butts backwards if she wants to be let go or out of her high chair. She says more with her hands and hi/bye. She says mama and dada but compared to the boys at this point she isn't much of a "talker."
She Loves Dogs/animals. Or even stuffed animals that we make talk to her. She has a cute laugh when she gets around them. If she likes something and you are holding her she still wags her leg :)
Can't believe how fast this time is passing.
Love you Elliot.

this just in

First tooth!
Its her upper right tooth next to her middle teeth. Her new nickname is Snaggle, & that is chocolate on her tounge.

Elliot 10 mo

Happy 10 months ElliotShe is getting so big. She is in the vacuum stage. She has been crawling most of the month. She just started saying "more" with her hands. She does the cutest little wave with just three of her fingers to say, "Hi".


If I can't find her I go to the toy room and she is usually standing up on something playing with toys. Cars and balls are her favorites (and the new monkey :)

Likes to explore..and taste new things

and her brothers do her hair

(here the styling tool was the shop vac)

Love you Miss Elliot

Elliot 9 mo' yo

Stats: 17lbs. 14oz (45th percentile), 2 ft 3 inches (45th percentile), head size 18.3 (90th percentile :)

Here she is on her 9 month/Ezra's 2nd b day enjoying a magic motion picture ride with her bro's at Chuck E Cheese.

She is mobile! She still won't crawl on all 4's for more than a stroke or 2 but she's all over with her army crawl. Especially if there is food involved. Ezra loves to feed her (he enjoys the perks) She is in the vaccum stage
Daddy's girl
She can say "Moma"! and she can screeeeam!

She loves to stand up. I found her crying doing the splits the other day.

Still no teeth, but the Dr. said any day now. She loves her a toothbrush Loves to eat, loves paper, loves to eat paper, is in her own room, laughs at brothers, loves water, hates car seats, semi-ticklish, still a good sleeper.

Eight month Elliot

Dear Elliot,
We are so glad you are in our family. We have no idea how you got so cute though. Everyone thinks you look like the Gerber baby. and look at those eyes. I am so glad you got Dad's lashes.
You have sprouted these past two months! It started with you letting us know you were still hungry. You go from angelic to Screaming!! in .25 seconds. My favorite was when we were in Target and you saw someone walking by eating a pretzel and you reached for it and screeeeamed!! Most of your outbursts are related to food. but you have put it to good use and are growing into a sweet petite little girl.
You make the funniest noises. It seems like each time you discover a new voice it lasts for about 2 weeks. I remember you blowing bubbles/talking, then it graduated into babbling the cute baby gooing and gaaing, then you discovered your tongue and would say La La la. Then I think the boys discovered you would smile and laugh at them and they were playing with you more, and Rocco is around, that's where I think you got the growling from. When we were in sacrament meeting I was holding you and I started to close my eyes for the prayer and I saw you out of the corner of my eye about to attack my face with your crazy growl. It was pretty funny. and now you have all the babbles and growls mixed up with these 2 second LOUd screams. Luckily you are still cute and its still funny. Needless to say we are trying to teach you sign language at least for food situations because you can get Loud!
You are sitting up so well! You Love to play with anything you can get your hands on. and if you find a good toy you will play with it or roll around with it for a good 30 minutes. You were sleeping on the floor in our closet until you scooted/rolled out into our bathroom. Now you are in a pack & play in our closet.
You've started getting a little Mommy sensitive lately. Up until the past few weeks you have been very mellow and laid back. Now, you get sad if you see me leave or if you realize you don't know who is holding you. The Young Women in the ward love to hold you (if you are in a good mood.) Rowdy is the only little little you will let hold you without crying, but you will also let Livee, cousin Kaidee, and Zoe and most everyone else bigger than them hold you.
You started clapping a few days ago it is sooo cute. and you have begun to clap when you smile. Its awesome.
We love having you around Little E. We especially like watching Rowdy and Ezra trying to make you laugh, and just love you. You are so special and we are glad you are ours.
Heart,
Mom and Dad

6 monther

What a sweet girl. She's rolling over all the time and smiling and finally starting to babble again, mixed in with her exotic bird sounding screeches. She is eating real food. 18-ish lbs. Sleeping through the night. Grabbing and loving toys. She is always laughing or waving her arms and legs excitedly at her brothers and anyone smiling at her.

cinco meses!?!

Elliot has just been sprouting! She is such a sweet girl. She has stopped cooing and started blowing bubbles in a distinctive manner. She is starting to laugh a little more. Sometimes when she gets surprised. Sometimes surprises make her cry and definitely everytime Rowdy gets near her and roars she cries. He does it on purpose because he thinks its funny. She has rolled over a few times from her front to her back. She still paints her nails

She still takes a passie and goes to sleep in armpits. She will also calm right down with a soft blanket touching her cheek :) She sleeps from 9 to 9 and wakes up once around 5 or 6 to be fed and goes right back to sleep.

She is sitting up better and is starting to get a lot better with her hands. Toys are beginning to entertain her.

She is letting other people besides her mom hold her. & She finally has gotten used to the car We feed her one bottle a day...and other stuff, but I have been to lazy to start the real food yet.

Nicknames: Mamas, Sweet Pea, Miss Elliot

Her future is bright

Love you Miss E

Bustin'..up & out

(as in bustin' out of the newborn clothes)
Elliot is 3 months old!

She is so smiley now. You just have to make eye contact and she will usually shoot you one of these wide mouth grins. Her neck is getting stronger but sometimes with her little bobble head it takes a minute to get the eye contact :) but it is worth it. She coos and goos if she knows you are listening. as in she will respond to a goo or a coo. Is this so confusing? just come over and play! Oh and she laughed for the first time today!! I stuck her in the bath with the boys and Rowdy "gooed" and laughed at her and she giggled 3 distinct and different times. It was soooo great. She is such a good baby. We love you little E

Cody painted her nails :)

2 months! & 17 months

Well Miss Elliot is 2 months old today!
She is just coming alive. She has started cooing and smiling and becoming so alert
Still sleeping good.
She is, on occasion, getting used to the car which she has not been a huge fan of so far.
also doesn't seem to be a fan of the headbands. She's fine once you get the thing one there but if she feels it start to go around her head... she no likey.
Her eyes seem like they are going to stay blue. and her hair is a light brown/sometimes a dark red.
She seems to have the thick Cody lashes but they are lighter.
She is just so cute! People always want to hold her and I love it, but I do get a little jealous because I feel like I have so little time to sit down and focus on just her. but She is sooo good. & sooo patient. & we feel so lucky to have her in our family.

Ezra also loves Elliot. He has just been wanting to hold her all the time now. Its so cute. He gets so upset if he can't. He knows just how he needs to sit or lay, and will get ready for her. Then he pats her with his little chubby hands. It melts my heart. He is such a sweet big brother. They both have birthdays on the thirteenth so Ezra is 17 months old today! One more month then he will be legal in nursery! He just popped his sharpie shark tooth through on the top left. We found it just yesterday. He is a little trooper. Ezra got a stuffed dog and a stuffed bird for Christmas and he loves to sleep with them. Its so funny. He will ask for the dog or bird as soon as we go into the dark room and then he will smile so big and squeeze/hug them when handed to him and he will lay his head down on my shoulder. Its so cute, but does make me a little nervous about the whole needing a specific stuffed animal. Tonight I couldn't find either one in the dark so I just layed him down and he didn't seem to mind either. He is just so squeezable.
mmmm I just love these bebes

Elliot's Blessing

Elliot was blessed 12/29/2010

Look at that smile!

Aunt Toni made her beautiful blessing dress

She was blessed by Cody in our home
(Where did the smile go?)

Bishop Sears, My Dad, Elliot, Cody, Clay Hurst (and Audy)

Its just hard to write about the feelings you have at something like this. What a blessing for us to have Elliot in our home.

lots of love hereIt was a nice evening.
and we had yummy homemade chicken noodle soup and dessert afterwards.

We know we have so many loved ones who weren't able to make it. We feel your love and appreciate you and really hope we didn't make anyone feel excluded.

Christmas 2010 style

I loved having little Elliot near Christmas time.
She just helped me to remember what it was all about.

She didn't even fit in our biggest Christmas stocking.

Christmas morning was fun. Rowdy was totally into it.
All he asked for was a duck.

"Dog!"

Ezra was the first kid up and we were going to have him wait for Rowdy but he saw the Dog from across the room and started his dog chant.Rowdy's big gift was a remote control car

mmmmm.
First Christmas first Candy Cane
Scooby Snacks!

Rowdy was soooooo excited all week about his Scooby Snacks.

Scooby Doo is his most recent animated obsession

It was so great that Ezra ended up getting all of the things he could say. It didn't happen on purpose really but I guess if he likes something a lot he says it. So he walked around all morning from one toy to another. "dog" "truck" "ball" "book" "duck" again and again and again. It made us all happy. I am going to keep that in mind for Elliot.Cody sent me on an awesome and tricky scavenger hunt around the house and a little of outside to find some gifts including my missing shoe.
Despicable METhanks Grandma JennyI locked Cody out of the garage for two days and painted the bear and star from the California flag Cody had been wanting (with Elliot strapped to my chest). Thanks to the help of Zoe and Paige we actually did surprise him.Rowdy was Elliot's designated opener. and helped her get the most out of her gifts.after all our festivities at home we went and had breakfast at the Carmacks, visited and broke in Craig's new juicer. mmmm. Then it was all of the sudden afternoon. We watched "Despicable Me" And Rowdy picked up some new dance moves. I thought he had to go to the bathroom but he informed me he was pinching his bum, "like Mr. Gru." Oh Yeah.

Then for dinner we went to Jason and Kellie's and had some yumalicious beef dip sandwiches.
Wrestled

and Ezra learned how to hula hoop (the safe way)

I think Elliot had a good first Christmas.
(Even though Santa forgot to bring her an apple to lick)It was a joyous day