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A nice cold, juicy honeycrisp apple is just what a girl needs to help ease the pain of teething!

.....that is, until Mommy takes it away so she can have a bite!

Ella sold Girl Scout cookies to a family friend who is a firefighter. It was a slow evening at the fire station, so he showed both girls in, on and around the fire trucks. This must have jogged memories of Ella's preschool field trip to the fire station-- I found this drawing in the craft closet. Its Ella's fire escape plan for our house! I'm so impressed and amazed by her details: 2 routes (window or down the stairs), fire with smoke, smoke detector (she is really working on spelling- bape corrected to beap!) and what appears to be daddy watching TV.

Just because we are dairy free doesn't mean we don't get to enjoy the finer things in life...life caramel corn =)

Family skating night = our new favorite way to spend Tuesdays

Sweet smiley girl

1st cold. Yuck! We invested in a new booger-sucking device, the NoseFrida. The red end goes in your mouth, blue vial looking end goes in baby's nose...suck suck suck and voila! Baby can breathe again. No worries, there is a filter that prevents the boogers from traveling up the little straw to get into mommy and daddy's mouth ;-)

Joining the ranks of her sisters in trouble-making! She can now open most cupboards and drawers, pull herself up into a sitting position and empty whatever cupboard or drawer she is currently in front of.

Ella won a very special prize for selling random do-dads out of a catalog last fall. She got her 1st limo ride to have a pizza lunch.

And now she can pull herself up to standing!! This is going far far too quickly if you ask me. Earlier today I went to get her up from her nap to find her standing in her crib as proud as she can be. Slow down baby girl... Saturday she will be 9 months old!

Well there you have it! I managed to post somewhat consistently for an entire month. Now I only have 11 more to go....