On Christmas morning Ella entered the living room and screamed "Big Red Dog" as she ran to cuddle with her new friend. Her excitement was contagious. 
Ella loved her tea set from Mimi and Pubah! 
Opening presents took all day as Ella took time to play with each new toy. 
Nana and Papa gave Ella these wonderful blocks and helped her build towers. 
Thank you Auntie Deb and Cecil, Ella loves her Ugly doll.
sibling rivalry 
that's more like it! 
Ella was a big help in preparing Christmas brunch
It was fun watching Ella play with her second cousins Rachel and Cierran
Ella's favorite part of making Christmas cookies! In fact when she got a utensil set from Santa for her little kitchen the first thing she did was lick the wire wisk. Also note she's wearing a reindeer shirt, next to her Clifford pants this is her favorite piece of clothing. She has us sing Rudolph and Frosty the Snowman nonstop on any car ride. Thank God Greg downloaded the songs to our i-pod for a more pleasant driving experience!
Our little fish in a big pool, she had a blast. 
Ella was very excited and vocal while viewing the fish "oh my" has become one of her favorite phrases. 
We had a great day at the Boston Aquarium 
Making Christmas presents
Ella has been having lots of fun this month playing chase- especially chasing pigeons in Boston, it was very entertaining.
Holding up the letter N Ella tells us "Nana"
The weather has been so lovely (mid 60's) that we went to the lake in our town to throw rocks. Ella decided to go for a dip also. 
Ella, Nana and Clifford enjoyed the water dancing at Jordon's furniture store
Where's Ella? This is a questions we're often asking these days as she has become quite a good little hider, thank goodness she's also a giggler! 
Ever since Ella learned a song about toast popping in her Kindermusik class she loves toast and ask for it at every meal.
We play a little game where we ask Ella to show us a facial expression. Here she is showing us her Surprised look.
Ella showing us her Stressed look.
Ella's sad look. I once asked her to show me an angry face and she thought for a bit and then tried to squish her face together with her hands. 
ready to give kisses 
Thankfully this is the face we see most often. Our happy girl
this was a naked day where Ella refused to put on clothes until it was time to play outside and then as soon as we came in she declared "naked" again and insisted we help her take her clothes off. 
We went into Boston to see all the Christmas decorations, Ella was most thrilled with Macy's window displays. 
Ella signing "squirrel" which she was more fascinated with than the Ice skating rink in the Boston Commons 
Kisses from Summit, or "BoBo" as Ella always calls him
Our Thanksgiving Feast
Our friend Christina brought us on our first geocash. www.geocashing.com a hike with GPS to find a hidden treasure (box)
Ella in her UW outfit ready to throw rocks in the ocean. 
"big car" Ella plays at Stage Fort Park
Ella went a little crazy with coloring
Summit isn't thrilled with his new look
Our ferocious little Lion- Thank you Aunt Faye for making such a cute costume 
Ella had fun at our neighbor Katie's party 
Our little lion got into the candy and became a wild child
Papa stopped by to say Hello 
finally exhausted
Playing dress up
the restaurant from Seinfeld 
Greg and I got away to NYC without Ella for 5 days (thank you nana and papa for baby sitting!)
"neigh, neigh" is what Ella said as she climbed on Summit 
Ella loves coloring and can name red, blue, green, yellow, and occasionally she gets purple and white correct and we can't forget "nemo" - for what she calls orange.
