Christmas Pictures

About a month ago, Patti took Christmas pictures of us. These are some of my favorites. Thank you Patti!!!
I love this one because of Ellie's expression. It was actually pretty hard to get her to stay still for the picture. I guess that is what happens with a 10 month old.
Ellie loves this picture! I can't blame her--I do too! I think she looks more like John in the black and white pictures. Probably because you can't see the red in her hair.
This one of her favorite books. She loves looking at the babies' smiling faces.
She now has two good teeth on the top. So I am really glad we have a good picture of Ellie's gummy smile.

I just love her.

Ellie thanks her cousin Jane for the use of her awesome skirt!

Wintertime bliss!

Goings On

I went into Ellie's room after she woke up from a nap the other day and found her like this. This is sure her favorite expression. She really likes to crinkle her nose.
Ellie has also discovered the sippy cup. She LOVES water. It is hard to figure out what end to suck on though. John took a trip to Minneapolis right before Thanksgiving to present the research he has been doing at a fluid dynamics conference. He was gone for four days. My mom came down and stayed with Ellie and me, which was so nice. I am so proud of John for working so hard!