One Year!

Today marks the one year birthday of this blog! It's amazing how much has changed in the past year. Let's see where the next year will take us.

Here is Ellie eating a teething biscuit, yummy.
Ellie is enjoying her tummy time a lot more these days because she can roll over herself so she can reach her toys. It won't be long now before she's crawling!
Here is Ellie enjoying biting on a bottle of water after finger painting with sweet potatoes and prunes.

Ellie and I took a trip with Ngoai (Vietnamese name for a maternal Grandmother) to visit the O'Neill Family this past weekend and had a great time!

Central Park with Ngoai.Eve and Sebastian going down the slide, with Lien's sunglasses following close behind!
Ellie has discovered her tongue, here she is on the swing!
Me and Ellie at the playground.Again with that silly face!
With cousins, Sebastian and Eve.Sisters!Me and the kids in Central Park.At the O'Neill residence, Sebastian in the cardboard plane Lien and I constructed for part of his Halloween costume.Me and a sleeping Ellie in Brooklyn at a street fair.

September, already?!

I blinked, and it's half way through September! Ellie is 6.5 months old now, at her 6 month appointment she weighed 16 lbs 15 oz and was 25.25 inches tall. Our doctor said she is doing, "awesome." He also gave the ok to start on some other foods. So far we have tried, rice cereal, applesauce, pears, prunes, and bananas. I think she really enjoys the applesauce and bananas. Tomorrow we will try either sweet potatoes or peas, yummy.

Pretty soon Ellie will be cruising around, she can roll both ways now, and she is always motivated to reach toys that are far away. Watch out, Smeagol and Mimzy!

Last weekend we took a relaxing trip to PA where Ellie made a new friend, Max.

She enjoyed time on the patio.

And had fun being pulled around in a wagon with her cousin Lilia by strongman, Dominick.

This coming weekend we are taking a trip to NYC to visit the O'Neill family. Ellie is excited to visit the big apple! Imagine all the photo opportunities!