11 months.

Elle is now 11 months!  This past year has gone by in a blink of an eye.  I seriously cannot believe Elle is almost 1 year old.  She is still pretty happy, but we are beginning to see a stubborn streak in her, especially when it comes to food.  She loves to empty things out...baskets, purses, back packs.  She empties them out and then re-organizes everything into different piles over and over again.  She adores dogs.  When we were at the boys' soccer game we put her down to play on the grass and the next thing I know she started crawling over to some huge dogs.  She gets so excited everytime she spots a canine.  She is starting to stand up on her own once she pulls herself up. And she just started crawling up the stairs.  She'll be crawling around the kitchen and all of a sudden she has quietly climbed up the stairs without me knowing.  She loves to hug her dollies and even gave her cousin Aiva a hug the other day!  She loves watching other babies.  She likes to point to where we are going and claps everytime other people clap or we sing Patty Cake to her.  And she is a great snuggler.

reading award.

Once a quarter Ambuehl awards some of the kids on Formal Friday.  This quarter Bentley received an award for Reading and Sight Word Recognition.  His teacher said that he is the best reader in the class.  He reads to Gaige often and I even came downstairs the other morning to see them under a blanket reading a book!  He is a smarty pants.

pillow time.

The other night Elle kept snuggling Gaige's pillow.  She would grab it, throw it on the ground and then fall on top of it.  The boys had so much fun playing with her and the pillow.  She had a pretty good time too!

 
baseball.

I have now entered the world of baseball.  Bentley and his friend Cash are on the Lugnuts with another friend from school, Jackson.  Opening day was March 2nd.  Little did I know that it would consume my life for the next couple of months.  2 games and a practice every week and the games start at 4:30 leaving me to wrangle Elle the whole 2 hours!  Bentley does seem to like it better than soccer and he is doing really well.  He likes to be the catcher and though he doesn't take instruction well (just like his mom) he can hit the ball.  He still doesn't like to run and goofs off half of the time.   Cash's mom, Becky, and I have become great friends spending many hours at games and practice together!

 

 

We also took Bentley's training wheels off of his bike yesterday, March 15th.  He hopped on and took off riding right away.  He never stops amazing me with his coordination...probably because I lack that!