Keeping Ellie busy!

Ellie loves to be busy, no matter how tired Brad and I are, she wants to be doing something! We take her to the pool, for walks around Piney Orchard, and out to run errands. Recently, we took a hike in the Piney Orchard Nature Preserve (of course she fell asleep for most of it), to the Baltimore Zoo, to a Babies in Bloom Class at the library, to the New Jersey Shore, and of course to visit family. One bad part about keeping her busy is that she's started to dislike being strapped in the carseat, this means some stress and screaming in the car, hopefully this is just a short phase.
At the Piney Orchard Nature Preserve, these geese were following us.
Nature Preserve again, notice the fawn in the background.
Nature Preserve, lotus flowers... speaking of lotus flowers...
...my lovely sister Lien Hoa (which means lotus flower) and her kids at our pool.

Ellie and I at the Jersey Shore.
The Bower family at the beach, Ellie's first beach experience.
The whole group, minus me (I'm taking the picture) at the beach.
Bower family at the Baltimore Zoo.
Zebras, they were so pretty! The chimps were the most entertaining, and the dik-dik's were the cutest!
Ellie and I posing.
Daddy pushing a sleeping Ellie.

Rice cereal!

At the 4 month visit to the doctor's yesterday Ellie weighed 14 lbs 12 oz. and was 23.5 inches tall. We took our second trip to the pool in the afternoon, Ellie spent some time in the baby pool and the big pool (it was warmer). This is my new favorite picture of her, she looks so big!

 

Today Ellie had rice cereal for the first time! She seemed to really enjoy it. See for yourself!

4 and 4

Ellie is now 4 months, and we just celebrated the 4th of July! Ellie has rolled over from tummy to back a couple of times, and she loves to be in a standing position. She also went to the pool for the first time she was a bit sleepy so our visit was short, but I'm sure there will be more pool fun.

Our 4 month doctor's visit (oh no, shots!) is on Monday and we're guessing she's close to 15 lbs. Next week we will also start rice cereal, hopefully she'll love it!

For Independence Day we went to a bbq at the Burger's. Ellie saw her first fireworks with her friend Ethan, who is 2.5 months older than her.

We can't wait to see what new adventures will come in the next few months! Watching fireworks from the window.