My girl

This is Ella.  She is 2.  I've raised 2 other 2 year old prior to her, but she takes 2 to a whole new level. 

She's beautiful, happy, funny, and likes to play in the toilet.  And color on walls.

She sings Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Jesus Loves Me at the top of her lungs.  She also spits her chocolate milk out down her white shirt.  She no longer gets chocolate milk.

She laughs a lot and she loves, loves, loves her brothers.  She also bites, smacks and kicks her brothers, all out of love, I'm sure.

She loves to play dress up, loves the color pink and loves to smear pudding, jello, ice cream or yogurt in her hair, the moment mommy gets up from the table.

She is tough as nails, and can fall down, fall off of things, and get right back up.  She also screams bloody murder if you tell her no.

She wants to be a "Big" girl, but still isn't ready to give up her beloved binky.

She is fearless, and scares her mommy to death on many, many, many, many occasions.  Many.

This is Ella, she is 2, she STILL does not sleep through the night.

I love you Ella Boo, you are the light of my life, and even though make me question my parenting skills, every single day, I wouldn't trade this time in your life for anything.  Tomorrow I will be teaching you how to scrub ink pen off the dining room walls.  :)

Our newest family member.

I am a bad blogger! It has been a long time since I posted, but in my defense I had a baby 2 weeks ago and have been a little preoccupied! Nevertheless, I need to share our story and pictures of my precious little princess with all my blog buddies!

Things did not go as I planned.

I was scheduled to go into the hospital on Dec 29^th, at 4pm to have a planned C-section. I was instructed that I couldn’t eat anything that day after 8 am, so Chad and I planned on getting up at 6am and going out for breakfast to one of our favorite little pancakes places, while my mom and dad stayed home with the kids. We had our family Christmas the day before and had stayed up really late playing UNO Attack with Noah and the grandparents, so I wasn’t fully packed, but I figured I would finish that morning, since we didn’t have to be at the hospital until 2pm. I was having a very hard time sleeping; I kept getting up, going to the bathroom, tossing and turning, checking the clock to see if it was close to pancake time! At 4am I felt a familiar pain, and I hit my husband, and got our of bed, and then “whoooosh” my water broke. Ok, so things were not going the way I had hoped. You see when I had Noah I was so into birth, I labored for a long time, but I was prepared for it, then when Benjamin came around, his C-section was planned, we went in and I never labored or anything. So, when my water broke this time, I was none too pleased, not because I am a big baby or anything like that, I just like to be prepared, and I WAS NOT PREPARED TO HAVE CONTRACTIONS! So, it took about 15 minutes for them to start coming regularly, I tried to remember back 7 years ago when I took Lamaze, I remembered something about breathing, while my husband is snapping a thousand pictures! He was no help at all; every time I needed a hand to squeeze he was taking a picture, seriously!

We got the hospital and they wheeled me in and Ella Noelle Graber was born at 6:15am, she weighed 7lbs 14 oz, and was the prettiest thing ever! With very fat cheeks, I’m afraid she got those from me. I am praying that she doesn’t inherit my big boobs! I wouldn’t wish those on anyone!

We are all home now, I am still recovering, slowly, but doing ok. Ella is beautiful. I am so amazingly blessed. God is such an awesome God, I can’t believe He picked me to be the mom of such precious kids! I never knew how much fun it would be to have a little girl, I never knew I liked pink this much! I feel like I am a little kid again playing with my dolls, except this doll is by far the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!

By the way, my husband was really wonderful, he does take a lot of pictures, which at the time; I was not amusing to me, but I was very thankful for them once it was all over! He is a wonderful man, and is so in love with our little princess!

Ella Noelle Graber right after she was born.With mommy and daddy for the first time!

My little angels. Benjamin and Noah both love her so much already!
We put her in this precious dress for her pictures at the hospital. I guess by her hand gestures, she doesn't think it is as fabulous as I do!
Ella with her daddy, although you can't see him!