Watch Elli Grow!
May 1st-May 31st
Weight: 13lbs 7.5oz
Sleeping Patterns: Great naps most of the time! One in the morning, 9-11ish, and one (or two) 1-3ish & 5-6ish in the afternoon. Still not sleeping great at night. Waking up at least twice a night... Bedtime is at 8pm.
Eating Habits: She nurses 4-5 times a day and eats food with us breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
New "Foods": Yogurt and Banana!
New discoveries: She loves to "talk!" She can make all sorts of sounds now!
New accomplishments: Blinking intentionally (5.12). This is so cute and funny! It is almost like she is communicating by the different ways she blinks. Up on knees/all fours (5.15), "waving thing"/opening and closing fist , "Dada" (5.20), scooting backwards, sitting up on her own!!
Nickname: "Monkey Baby"-She loves bananas, especially to hold the whole thing and try to take "bites." (Paula Dean baby- loves butter, Scooter-scooting backwards like there is no tomorrow!)
PICTURES!
Meal Times!!
Food has become a big deal lately so of course Mommy had to take a ton of pictures!
Hanging Out and Doing New Things!
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| Helping me open my Bible |
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| Up on all fours! |
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| Holding her hands! |
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| Love those BIG eyes |
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| So sweet |
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| Going for a ride in the stroller Cary Anne gave us before she and Daniel moved!! |
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| So happy |
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| Mommy and her girl |
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| Daddy and his girl |
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| Playing outside! |
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| Swinging in the hammock |
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| love her little profile |
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| Sitting up truly on her own for the first time! She is looking up to her Daddy :) |
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| Happy Memorial Day! Elli's first time in a kiddie pool (she hated it... too cold!) |
Special Memories:
May 4th: Day at the Museum of Life and
Science in Durham with our fellow birthing class couples and all of our
babies! It was so fun to finally see each others babies and for the
babies to meet :)
Trip to Lynchburg
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| At "Aunt" Bethany's house (Bethany Tanner, not to be confused with my sister Bethany Klinect:)) |
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| Our creative photo! Credit: Bethany Joy |
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| Love these people |
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| Elli with "Aunt" Heather and "Aunt" Bethany!!! She loves them too! |
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| Speaking of LOVE :) |
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| awwww |
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| Such a great time with two of my dearest friends! |
May 12th: First Mother's Day with Elli in my arms! Surprise trip to Grammi's for Mother's Day.
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| Helping open her gift |
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| The flower pot we painted! We made one for Nana too:) |
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| Elli and Daisy |
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| Meal time |
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| Happy girl in her Papa's arms |
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| Telling us all about "it" |
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| A funny part |
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| admiring herself |
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| We had a photo shoot as soon as we got there! |
Mother's Day with Matthew & Elli
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| I woke up to this Sunday morning! The guys he carpools with to work stopped and got their wives a sweet surprise! Thank you Matthew! |
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| Mother's Day Morning at IDC |
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| My sweet gifts:) |
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| Daisies are my favorite! Ok I know this blog post is supposed to be about Elli... Back to her:) |
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Friday Family Fun Day
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| Trying out our new pack! |
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| Making Elli into a nature baby |
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| she loved it |
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| a lot |
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| she was out! ...for about 5 more seconds after we stopped walking ;) |
Visit To Charlotte
Daddy got to come this time! Yay! He got a lot of homework done for his summer class while we were there but we also had a lot of fun times with him too!
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| Play pen time! |
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| Daddy's finger is so tasty |
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| Matt and I got to go on a little walk by ourselves while Grammi and Aunt B kept Elli! |
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| Bedtime Bible story with Grammi |
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| Worn out! So much attention! so much love! She doesn't even know how blessed she is |
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| At Dunkin Donuts |
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| Chillin in the swing |
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| Giving Daddy a look haha |
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| My Kool Kat |
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| LOVES! |
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| E and Aunt B Sylin |
The 7th month was good! We finished up our time at BBLC, the preschool where I worked and Elli had lots of little friends! (And I had lots of little friends and grown up friends!) It was definitely bittersweet to leave. I'm so thankful the Lord provided that wonderful job when we first moved here! It not only helped us financially, but my boss, Mrs. Peggy, and all the staff blessed me with their friendship and community! What a gift!
Matt/Daddy finished another semester! It was hard, hard work but we made it to the end! We are so proud of him!
One really hard thing will Elli is she is still not sleeping through the night... It's been since she was 6 months that she stopped. We are trying to work on it, but still not having a ton of success. You can pray for that! (this is also true for the 8th month unfortunately:( )
It was a blessing to see the Klinect side of the family. Look for the 8th month blog to see our visits with the Bishop side!
God is faithful and continues to provide for our needs and grow us in many ways!
Elli, we pray you come to know this Wonderful Father.
