Blessing day

Yesterday Ellie was blessed. She was such a good girl throughout the day despite the fact that it was so crazy. We had 41 people in our 2 bedroom apartment!!! Last Friday my sister took these awesome pictures of Ellie in her blessing dress. It is the same dress that I was blessed in.

Ellie's smiles

She doesn't love the headbands so she doesn't smile quite as big when their in.

Slobber smiles!!!

Second smile on camera.

This is her first smile caught on camera.

How to know when to cut

I have always been lazy when it comes to cutting my fingernails, but something happened a couple of days ago that made me realize I need to be more diligent about it. Ellie had just spit up all over my shirt. Normally, I just live with the spit up on my shirt, but this one was bad enough to not ignore. So I go to change my shirt, and I scratch myself on my elbow. I think I said 'ow' but didn't really think anything of it. A minute or two later, I noticed that I had something we dripping down my arm. I investigate and sure enough, I am bleeding because of this scratch.

That night I told John about how sharp my fingernails are and how I couldn't believe that I had drawn blood while changing my shirt. The ironic thing is that when I was changing into my pajamas later on, it happened again! Twice on the same arm! I took this as a sign that I needed to cut my fingernails.

The Offending Hand