7 months for quinn

just a few...

loves to chatter to us
just got her 2 front teeth in
can boogie aka scoot and roll across the room in no time
brother LOVES to pick her up
has some diva in her
loves that brother times a million...and all of his toys

love my girl!!

lights. camera. action.

I have to admit...I was a little...ok, A LOT excited when the owner of a super cute local kids boutique asked if griffin and quinn would like to be in a commercial for her store.  It was so fun filming and both kiddos did so great!  

Here is a pic of the cameraman filming by little beauty queen!

..and does it get any cuter than her

...or him!!!

...here is the final product!!  

g at 3

my little 3 year old go ahold my camera and started shooting away!!!  love him!!!

My favorite boy is 3!!!!! "I get bigger bigger" as he would say!! Love that he is a lion every morning, tell me he loves me times a million, still thinks daddy can do everything, takes an hour long "bathtub", will protect his sister 

like crazy, then wrestle with her the next minute! hides from Daddy EVERYDAY after work, and loves to sing his "ABCD's" Happy Birthday to my bug stomping' boy!!! We love you times a million!!!

diva!

mom and i took quinn cate to girls night out at the galleria!!!  so fun!!  ...we are teaching her young!!!

 one word...diva!!!  lol   yes, I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this girl!!!

eek... boo, thank you pinterest!!!

ok...so i may be a little addicted to pinterest..lol  i get the best and cutest ideas for the kiddos!!!  here are 2 super cute paintings we did before halloween!!  LOVE!!!  

g thought it was so fun!!!  

his teacher recently told me that, "griffin is so good at crafts"  yes...this did make me a very proud mommy!!!

 ...g helped me paint the web!!!

house divided

A much anticipated day in the Ellis house!!! ...but halfway through the Tech KState game I would have been happy turning the tv off....but hey, still turned out to be pretty fun!!!  a few beverages, school song singing...by me...ha! and most importantly I got to dress the kiddos up super cute and take pictures!!!..but Q would only let me claim one of the two for the Tech gear...and with this super cute girlie red and black, my decision was made!  ha!

school pics

seriously, how cute is this....

Griffin's first school pictures!!!  (at Kid's Day Inn) Couldn't pass these up!!!!

3rd buggy birthday party

Griffin celebrated turning 3 with 20 of his closest friends at his super cute buggy birthday party!!!  Such a fun party at The Bug Lady's Science Academy!  The kiddos LOVED it!!!

how cute are these invites!!!

g's buggy cake!

the bug lady showing off the spiders...eeek!  ;)

how big is my boy!!!

a little cuddle time for the girls!

...and a little goo making!

no party is complete without a little cockroach art!

little buds g and conrad!

how cute are his butterfly party favors!!!!

griffin had the cutest birthday party...complete with lots of buggy food!!!

ladybug bites

dirt worm cake

bug juice

butterflies and jelly

caterpillar kabobs

butterfly pasta

Thank you everyone for buzzing by Griffin's PARTAY!!!

little punkins!!!!

Our little pumpkin!!!

....and this is how it all started!!! Here is G picking out the biggest pumpkin for baby Q!!

 How cute is he!!!  We had the best time carving out his pumpkin!!!!

 uuuuh, so heaby!!!

I found online this fun Christian pumpkin lesson that I did with G while carving out his pumpkin!!!! 

1. Take a pumpkin. "You aren't a pumpkin, but all of us are something like one. God picks you from the patch, brings you in, and washes all the dirt off you may have gotten from the other pumpkins." Talk about how a pumpkin is like us: it has an outside and an inside. The outside is what people see. The inside is like our soul or our heart. A pumpkin left to itself will soon rot and die. We will die some day too." 

2. Carve out eyes and a small "o" shaped mouth.  As you make the holes and pull out the pieces of rind, ask people what they see inside (yucky stuff). "This is what we look like to others and what we are like when are hearts are not changed. The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live (Ecclesiastes 9:3). How can we get rid of this icky stuff?" 

3. "God is the only one who can change our heart. But in order for God to change our heart we must become open to him." Carve an opening in the top of the pumpkin big enough to put your hand through. You might want to quote Revelation 3:20: Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. 

4. Put in your hand and pull out the insides. "God scoops out all the yucky stuff inside of us. He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, impurity, and greed." Talk about the cross and how Jesus was willing to become messy for us, so that we might be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. (Ezekiel 36:25b-27). 

why we love him

9.1.12
griffin 2 (almost 3) years

griffin
-has quite the personality
-when you ask him a question, his typical answer is ummmmm, maybeeeee
-will put on one shoe just to stomp on a bug
-loves singing his abcd's (as he calls them) and hakunnah matata
-loves his sister soooo much...if you know what I mean.  He is on hugging her, sitting on her, playing with her or throwing things at her at all times!
-our favorite saying is "I love you times a million" or miyon as griffin says
-he is quick to tell me "I love daddy more" anytime i love you comes up!  Every so often he will tell me, "you are the best Mommy" or "no, I love you more" or " I love you times a miyon" and I can just hear his cute little voice as I am typing this!
-I could probably say with reasonable certainty that Q's favorite part of the day is after coming home from work, the second he opens the door he can hear little pitter patter of Griffin's feet running to hide...he LOVES hiding from his daddy!  and he just squeals and giggles until Q finds him!  LOVE it!  so cute!!!

-mommy, she's a princess (about Quinn, said in a fairytale type voice)

-"oooooh, so heavy" as he is picking her up and carrying her to me...yes, this boy makes me NERVOUS!!!

The other day I asked G what he wants to be when he gets big, he first replied "a schoolbus", so I asked him what else he wants to be, he told me "playday" lol... so then I asked him if he is going to go to work like daddy, he replied, "mommy, I not big, I still a kid"

6 months for quinn

at 6 months sweet quinn...

has gotten her 2 bottom front teeth
can now scoot
puts EVERYTHING in her mouth
doesn't sleep like her mommy wants her to
her favorite toys are her brothers!!!
no one can make her laugh like brother
is now about to start eating "real" baby food
is definitely a mommy's girl....and will fuss as soon as mommy walks out of the room...but loves daddy like no other!!!
as much as brother "beats up" on her...she is absolutely crazy about him!!!
her smile lights up the room!!
has the prettiest big blue eyes!...and everywhere we go everyone raves about them!

Our big (tiny) girl!!!

5 months for quinn

Oh where have the past 5 months gone!  Sweet Quinn Cate!  You are one wonderful baby girl!!!  

-her sweet smile lights up the room when she smiles at us

-cutest little laugh and no one can can make her laugh like her brother.....seems like she laughs the hardest when he is throwing things at her...don't worry nothing harmful....things like pacifiers, ribbon, -receiving blankets

-she is such a sweet baby mixed with a touch of diva!

-she is such a little chatty girl!  can't wait for our girltalk as she gets older!!!

-roly poly!  she can now roll herself across the living room...I think she just wants to get over to her big brother's toys

-gets SO EXCITED when we walk in to her room or talk to her, she gets a HUGE smile and gets her hands and feet a kickin'

my conversation with G recently:

Griffin:  here sister, taste this

Me: Griffin, did you just put a fruit snack in her mouth?

Griffin:  mom, she want to try it

...then his mommy races across the room to dig the fruit snack out of her mouth

...ahhhhhh, and I think he thought he was being extra sweet sharing his fruit snacks