crawling or frustrated?

tummy time turned into let's push ourselves over the boppy.
surprisingly elle has some strong leg muscles, must be the runner in her! she's not much for spending time on her tummy and she proved her point when she was determined to get off the pillow we had her propped-up on.

won't be long and she really will be crawling, watch out tackle!

elle's 100 days old!

with elle being born on inauguration day, jan. 20th it makes it easy to know she's exactly 100 days old today. you made it triple digits babe...way to go!

vogel birthday celebration

with 6 brothers and sisters...including the in-laws birthdays are a frequent thing in the vogel family. so instead of trying to cram everyone's special day in through the year we decided to break it up to 3x a year: summer, winter & spring birthdays.

saturday was a spring birthday celebration, SO.....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO
MOM, ME, WENDI, & ERIN

our family get togethers are never dull with 7 grandchildren the house is always hopping.
thankfully aunt wendi thought to bring some outdoor fun...BUBBLES!
who doesn't enjoy bubbles? ryan is still learning how to BLOW the bubbles OUT of his mouth, rather than INTO his mouth...nothing like eating soap!
we also hit up the near-by park for some swing time and climbing. we made it back home just before it down poured.

we also celebrated mark's GRADUATION from grad school. the joys of being a teacher and constantly going to school, it never ends! anywho...CONGRATS MARK
(mark's favorite thing is chapstick, so it was only fitting to get him the super smelly pack)
enjoy the chapstick markie!

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we also visiting with great grandma white and elle met her other cousins, well actually 2nd cousins: luke, adam & john along with great aunt kim and great uncle paul. we had a great time visiting with everyone. what a weekend!

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park time

well i started back to school this week. so this past weekend we spent some quality family time. elle went to the park for the first time. of course she fell asleep on the way to the park, but she decided to wake up for a picture on the swings.

she's adjusted well to the schedule of dropping of at martha's. and thankfully she's taking her bottle well and napping like a champ. WAY TO GO GIRL!

only 51/2 more weeks of school, but who's counting?

brother tackle's easter!

we didn't forget about our first little one...TACKLE!
he too got a visit from the Easter Bunny... a ball and treats.

So easy to please a dog.
We love you Tackle!

happy easter from tennessee

we had a great time visiting aunt anna and uncle bryan in tennessee over easter. we made the 9 hours drive through the night. we left at 10:30 wed. night and arrived at anna's house at 8am the next morning. it was a little rocky around 4am but we made it.

elle took her first hike, visited the eater bunny, and the zoo and spent some quality time with her aunt and uncle.

cheri & morgan's visit

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we enjoyed a visit from our good friend from grosse pointe- cheri and her little girl morgan. we spent thursday night watching the girls interact and catching up. it's always good to visit with old friends. thanks for stopping through cheri and good luck with your newest little girl on the way in july. we can't wait to meet her and make a trip to the east side for a girls weekend.

lovin' from the twins

Just some lovin' from the twins...
Garrett and Ethan are so cute with Elle. At first they would poke her eyes or "pat" her tummy- and by pat, I mean slap...all in good fun though. They now give her hugs and come help me burp her when she needs it. They are so proud of themselves when they pat her GENTLY now! Ohhh...the fun they'll have this spring when she's hanging out there all day. Thanks Martha for being such a great friend to take on another little one. You're the BEST!

wordless wednesday

i'm getting sooo BIG!