big girl

look who's sitting in her big girl high chair!
elle's loving her new seat at the table, playing with her toys while we make dinner and lovin' sweet potatoes!!

bedtime...delayed

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summer time is the best time to stay up late. doesn't matter because tomorrow is just another day to relax. elle and tackle love playing with one another, she laughs so hard at him and he just looks back at us like, what is she doing? elle is quite the roller now (yes, i know i still don't have a video. i'll get on that one.) last night she rolled all over her room even under her crib. josh likes to think that she was trying to put herself to bed. hhmmm, not quite.

mr. & mrs. smith

we had a great time visiting with some old friends from GP.
dave and alli and their kids: emily, peter, and joshy are one of our closest friends. we always have a blast when we get together, it doesn't matter how much time has past. they're the kind of friends that you don't care if the house is ready for company or even if the kids won't go to bed. so it didn't bother either one of us when elle didn't go down till 11pm and joshy finally fell asleep around 9:30 and after reassuring emily and peter that the basement wasn't scary they finally fell asleep in our bed around 10pm. WOW what a night. and in usual fashion dave and josh talked and made the meals. allie and i managed the kids and loved every minute of it. here's a little flashback to the earlier days of the whites and smiths:

emily has always been a fan of tackle, and this weekend was no different!

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dave and allie we miss you and love you soooo much, thanks for visiting

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summer fun!

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father's day celebration

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Happy Father's Day

Josh- you are an amazing father. elle is so lucky to have you in her life. enjoy the memories you've made with her over the last 5 months.

just chillin'

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we enjoyed having some of josh's family here this week. grandma, aunt anne, aunt kim, aunt sue, aunt mary, adam and john. we had a great time just relaxing together. elle took her first little dip in the pool with aunt sue. we can't wait to see her enjoy it even more through out the summer. the boys: adam and john, were great with her. they loved holding her and making her laugh...boy did she laugh!! what silly boys. thank you for loving our little girl!

p.s. thank you aunt mary for the very cool presidential gift...photo to come! since elle was born on inauguration day aunt mary found a commemorative presidential sationary set from the post office. what a great keepsake.

water babies

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the boys came over for a fun morning in the backyard. martha and i got the patio cleaned and set-up for the season...thanks martha! the boys enjoyed some time chasing tackle, brushing dirt off the patio (actually just pushing it around with their garden tools...so cute!), and of course cooling off in the sprinkler. tackle took part in cooling off too. aahhh, what a great start to the summer water season.

summer hike & tutus

last weekend elle and i spent the day with my family while daddy studied.
we had a picnic dinner and then took a hike out to sessions lake. we had a great time until elle decided it was her bedtime and we were still halfway into the hike...oops! poor time management on my part. still learning!

on saturday elle took her first trip to the vogel cottage and then headed into GR for a girly urban tutu photo shoot. aunt wendi set up all the girl cousins with a fun afternoon of tutus, dress-up clothes, and lots of laughs. elle was a trooper seeing how she totally missed both her afternoon naps and was up from 1-7pm...wow. thanks mom and dad for being there to help!
here's a preview of one of the tutus elle wore and cute cousin olivia's girly hat...more to come!!

wordless wednesday

elle's new artwork

firsts...tooth & ponytail

elle's first ponytail...pebble flinestone look-a-like
she's also teething right now, so everything is fair game to go in her mouth!
her passy doesn't seem to soothe her sore gums
as well as her little gummy blue one,
but just wait until she sees what mom just bought her...how cool is this!
it's called Raz berry Teether.

just playing...

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i'm so glad to be home finally! school's out and it's summer time. elle and i have just been chillin' while dad's at class. we're looking forward to some warmer weather so we can get the kiddie pool out. ohhhh, yeah!!

merci, auntie martha...

Thank you Martha!
Elle had a blast hanging out with her boys...E & G.
Martha you're an awesome friend for watching our sweet little girl for 6 weeks...WOW!
We can't thank you enough!