2.23

At 8 AM, Ella enjoys tummy time a little more than when she does it at 4 PM.

We went to Costco and Ella was a little angel. She slept most of the time.  She did have a diaper blowout on the way but at least it was on the way so we could change her in the back of the car.

She did wake up every now and then.  We spent a long time in Costco. We managed because she ate right before we left then I fed her as soon as we got home.

Costco had a lot of Carter's clothes for cheap. For about the price it cost me when I had 40% off then an additional 20% off coupons. I bought 3 or 4 different sizes so it's not like she really got a ton. Dave and I spent $255 at Costco. We bought a variety of things. 

After Costco and feeding Ella, Dave and I went out to lunch alone. As we were leaving, I told Dave I just felt wrong leaving without her. We thought we'd have a better shot at leaving and her napping during lunch time. Around dinner time she is so fussy and constantly wants to eat. I didn't think it would go as well. 

The waiter asked us what we had exciting planned for the weekend. We told him this was it. Going out without our baby. He expected us to say something else.  We talked a bit and he said his younger brother was supposed to be a girl!

There was a lot of movement and after a little Dave imitated Ella but lots of those pictures were blurry. But look how cute they look!

2.20

My parents surprised us with presents. Some were from my parents, some from some friends, and some from my Aunt. They were all so nice. The clothes are all bigger sizes so she has time before she'll be wearing them.  I really like everything. I was so shocked at everything. I was about to elaborate on different pieces I love but then in my head I was listing everything.

 She looks so grown up for 2 months old!

 I have more pictures on her 2 month update post.

I gave Ella a fork present to hold here for some pictures but I couldn't any good ones since I was holding out my arm. She was distracted because there were other people in the house.

Ella looks so small here. My dad was talking to her and she was looking at him. It was so cute.

Dave was doing his leg exercises and Poly thought that meant she could get comfy on top of him. As he would move, she would reposition.

2.21

I was showing my mom how one of the hats she made Ella fit her so well.

I can't get over how cute Ella is during tummy time sometimes.

Look how high up she is.

Then she is pushing up on her right side. What a big girl.  Then she rolled over!!!

It was really 2 months and 1 day but I took some pictures in daylight.

I already posted some of these on her 2 month update.

My mom tried one one of Ella's new outfits. They are size 6 months. The shirt is huge and the pants fit. They were even sold as an outfit.  I think Ella should have an outfit calendar like I used to have.  It's just amazing how she's grown. Also I would like people to see pictures of her in clothes they bought her.  Sometimes she gets on an outfit and I have to change it 30 minutes later because of poop or pee. Even with taking 300 pictures in a day sometimes, I still miss outfits. (Sometimes she goes 1.5 days in an outfit and I only change it because she wore it so long.)

Dave ws trying to do his back exercises and he wasn't left alone!

Ella isn't the only one to use her play mat.

1.14

Ella wore one of her homemade onesies.  It's hard to tell the words are purple both in the pic and in person.

The scale fluctuated between 8 lb 12.5 oz and 8 lb 13 oz. I zeroed out the scale first with a onesie, diaper, and socks. 

Dave and I both held Ella the same way.  She enjoyed that.  I look way fatter in my picture than I think I do in real life. I guess it's a bad angle.

Her steelers onesies are actually a lot bigger than the Disney onesies of the same size.

She did much better in the bath this time. You can see she's in the tub and not crying.

Homemade Onesies (as of 1.19.14)

These are the onesies Ella has worn as of January 19. The 0-3 month ones are still slightly big but I put her in them anyway now.  The bottom right corner is outside Olive Garden. I forget what other ones she's been out in public wearing.  We haven't gone many places so I'm going to go with she has only gone for walks in some of the other ones.   The only one she wore more than once was #BabyElla, but I Just included multiple pictures of each for different angles.   Some pictures aren't good because her bedroom is now dark and I don't use a flash. Most pictures are of Ella swaddled so you can't tell what she's wearing.  These were all created by Brenna and me. I'm not being selective, it's just that we didn't have any this size at the shower. Ella has to get bigger before she can wear most of them.

What do you think?

Update: I missed at least one from above. Here it is.

Pictures Showing Names

So I've been blocking out the name Ella on everything recently to not give the name away.  I thought you might want to see those pictures.

Here are a few. They were originally posted in the nursery reveal post.

Notice the onesie on the bottom right. I've had that one on this blog a few times and hid the name every single time. Only 2 onesies are name specific (so far). 

First Onesie in Action

Dec 28, 2013

There have been a lot of onesies made for our baby but I also made some for a friend.  Neil got to wear them first so here's the first onesie in action.  Neil is the son of my friend Jen.  Isn't he just so cute?

I mailed her 3 onesies. Two of which were messed up. This is the one that isn't but also the only one in size 12 month. The other ones were 18 month onesies. By messed up I mean I forgot to sew on the fabric that I ironed on so she has to find the time in her busy schedule to do that. And the other one I lined up to be straight with the sleeves but then overall the image is crooked.  In a few months he'll probably wear them and I'll make her send me a picture so I can share.  I was awful so it'd get there sooner, I made her pre-wash them. After you paint, you need to wait 3 days to pre-wash them. I figured that'd take too long. Now that I think about it, mailing was only a couple days since it wasn't a huge package so it wouldn't have been a big deal to delay going to the post office. Oh well. 

I love how he's dressed in blue. I wanted a blue onesie for the superman but cheaper onesies in colors are hard to find in larger sizes. I also was going to paint yellow on the logo but figured that would add more areas for me to mess up.  You can see this onesie along with the others I sent her at the bottom of my other onesie post.

For Jen's baby shower, I made an afghan. Here's the afghan being used too. This was back in July but I never posted it. 

More Onesies (DIY)

I'm addicted to making them. I wrote a post before about how I made onesies.

Created Dec 11-12 (except future nerd, rebel, and superman which were created earlier but were not in photos)

The photos are taken by size but sometimes 2 sizes are in one photo. I like knowing what size is what so when I have to pull out a new size in the future. I tend to group them together after washing them too.

Created Dec 15-17

some close-ups of some from above

how I created it

I have washed half of these so far and have a few more updates.

Some of the sharpie onesies bled all over the onesie but others did not. The ones that bled a lot were iBaby and #baby. The google one only bled for the yellow. The pocket tee, elephant, jail, and abcd were also done in sharpie and I don't remember them bleeding at all.   I did create the "My mom is a nerd" and did not wash it yet and now I'm worried it will get ruined. I tried to set it with the iron so maybe that will help.

I also did a few of these with iron-on transfers. It took me forever to break down and order the transfers and then my ink was dried up. I didn't even realize we had an inkjet printer. Then it took a few more days for the ink to arrive since I ordered it online. For the most part, iron-on transfers are really easy but if you peel off the backing too early you ruin the shirt. Make sure you pay attention to which side to print on. I read a lot of people saying they would print on the wrong side and ruin the iron. I only bought iron-on transfers that work on white shirts. They also sell them for light colored fabrics or dark fabrics but it was too hard to decide and they got more expensive.  I tended to print in black but only because that is what the fonts should have been. I only washed 1 iron-on shirt so far and it did crack a little bit with the ribbing but not much. The paint tends to crack a little too.

I actually have a few onesies started but not finished. For example I have a lightening bolt painted but have not painted on the words "Muggle Born" yet. I should probably at least finish ones I started but this is really hogging up my life.

Some of these I like more than others. Some I just like the idea of them better. I tend to realize I like ones that I created versus ones that I copied something a lot more. The Run Mom Run ones use my own silhouette and I also came up with the words. I saw one that had the words "Run like a girl" over a silhouette but I didn't like that.  "Nerd in training" using the Nintendo font and their idea of an oval. I created that but did see something else use the Nintendo oval and font so it wasn't 100% me. It just wasn't for a onesie like that. "My mom is a nerd" uses the google font or one very similar and the google colors. I came up with doing that on my own. I thought it was a little nerdy. Granted I did it on a white shirt thinking I could see through the onesie but once I started the M, I could not. So I pulled up the font on my computer and went from there.  I feel like you can see through until you start pushing in one area and then it doesn't work. Brenna didn't seem to have trouble so maybe I'm just blind or did it in poor lighting.  Dave helped pick out the points for the "Level 1 Human" onesie when Brenna was working on that.  Dave came up with the wording for "My dad has root at Google" but then after I made it he said the Google line is too close to the line above it. I used what he had when I made him work on a google doc to edit some stuff. Like he changed the font of the word "root" and he wanted the word Google in black not in their google colors. I would have preferred the google colors myself.  The shirt might be less boring with some color.

Ok I finished some of the designs I had so I made some more.  The to-do list is green but it's hard to tell in this picture. Nerd in training was made above but it was still wet so I forgot and included it  in my photo.  I really should count all the onesies I have. I should count per size and brand too.  The 3-6 month yellow onesies is the exact same size as the 6-9 month black and gray onesies. Disney is weird like that. Sometimes I think the 0-3 month ones are bigger than some of the 3-6 month ones.  The Gerber onesies are a lot narrower and longer than Disney. Leveret (light pink ones and some white ones) are very wide and not nearly as long.  I wonder which ones will end up being the style we like the best.