Cooler weather

We are really enjoying the beginnings of fall around Waco. Ellia has seen temperatures this past week she's never experienced before. As I was walking her the other day to meet her mom who was coming home from her bearobics class, I tried to explain to Ellia why the leaves were changing colors. Seemingly mundane things like seasons are not easy things to explain. I found myself getting more and more convoluted in my explanation to her. I'm excited for the opportunity to answer the 'why' questions toddlers inevitably have. I'm just glad I have another year or two before they start. I really need to learn to communicate more simply. I think we probably don't truly understand things until we're able to communicate them to babies. Ellia is a great student; she's a better teacher.

Louisiana pics, pt 3

Here are the third and final set of pictures from our time in Louisiana. We have tons more, but they would just get repetitive. Enjoy. More to come...

Louisiana pics, pt 2

Here are a series of pictures from our time by one of the ponds at the May home. Mommy's taking the pictures while Noni's making Ellia laugh.

Louisiana pics

Ellia got to visit Noni and Grandaddy at their new place in Baton Rouge. We got some absolutely incredible pictures from our time there. We'll be putting those pictures up over the coming weeks. So enjoy this first batch. Again, if you would like a good quality version of any of these pictures, let me know in the comments section which one (e.g. first one, fourth one, etc.)

ExerSaucer

We were finally able to assemble Uncle Ryan's gift for Ellia: the ExerSaucer. You can watch her getting smarter.

We were also able to take a lot of really good, high-quality pictures of the girl this past weekend. Unfortunately, the picture feature of Blogger is not working right now, so we'll have to put them up later. But stay tuned...you will soon see some incredible pictures on here.

Another attempt at moving pictures

A word about our videos: Ellia is a smart cookie. For whatever reason, she knows the moment a camera (anywhere in the world, mind you) is turned on. As soon as a camera is turned on, she is turned off. That's why, for instance, in the previous video, I sound like a blabbering moron. She reduces me to goos and coos because, literally a half-second before, she was gleefully screaming and laughing and cooing like a baby (not a grown human) should do. This video is not much better. Near the end, there's a taste of her normal voice. But more than anything, Mom and Dad are just trying to coax her out of her camera-shyness. So with that said, here's your video.

And here's a picture taken just before the video.