More pictures of Kyla

We were out at Brian & Sarah's on Sunday for a family dinner (with my parents). So we got to see Kyla. Ella pretty much ignores her because she's so busy chasing after Logan.

Ready for church

Here's Ella all ready to go to church on Sunday morning. Oh my little girl is growing up so fast. She'll be 2 already in November.

She has decided to be a dare devil here as of late. Jumping off of chairs and steps onto me or just the floor. Jumping from chairs to ottomans and vice versa. Wow, how much things can change in just 1 year. This time last year, she had only been walking a few weeks.

Ella's language is really starting to develop. Her favorites are juice and whatever Charles & I happen to say. Hoooney (honey) is a favorite as well. We can't help but laugh when we are making "smart" comments to one another and then Ella rattles it off. We really need to be careful now that we are only saying approriate words!

And as you can see, Ella really like the camera these days. As soon as she hears the picture take, she says, "I see". I think she just likes to see herself on the little digital camera screen, because then she'll point at it and say "It's Lala" (Ella). Too funny!

New toy!

Ella really likes the new flashlight I got from a co-worker. She points it to the ceiling and is just amazed.

Watching carefully

Ella is carefully watching the siders as they work. She is very intrigued by all of their tools. However, not intrigued enough to reject a picture!

More siding progress

Bike ride

Since Brian & Sarah were a little busy in the hospital, Grandma and Grandpa brought Logan to our house. It's the first time we've used this bike cart, but it did work pretty well.

Good leg workout!

Baby Kyla

My brother, Brian, and his wife Sarah had their baby this past weekend. Three weeks early. She's pretty tiny, only 5 1/2 pounds, but doing very well for being so little.

Here's Kyla with Brian and Logan (her big brother).

And then Kyla with Grandma and Grandpa Hohensee.

Siding progress

Here's some of the siding progress. We're putting up hardiplank siding, which in essence is cement siding. It'll be painted, we just haven't decided on a color yet.

Before siding...

Here's a a picture of the front of our house before the siding started last week.

Paige and Ella

Typical Paige and Ella, hanging out at Grandma & Grandpa's!

Getting ready

A few weekends ago, Ella and I went back to Pocahontas to go garage sailing with Grandma Ellen. Here is Grandma and Ella before we left.

Ella did relatively well, playing with the merchandise and not buying too much. We did find some brand new clothes for Ella and lots of clothes for her new cousin, Kyla.

More to come with Kyla.

Relaxin'

Here's Paige and Ella relaxing at my parent's house.

All worn out

On Saturday evening, Charles took Ella & I on a

boat ride. Ella was so tired, she fell asleep before we even made it past the buoy.

Lost Island

We went to Lost Island over Labor Day weekend. Here is Ella getting ready to go swimming. Then, she's in her waverunner floatie. She really liked it. Vroom, vroom, she'd say. She even got to go for another real waverunner ride. This time, though, her Dad let her drive. He'd say, "Turn around" and she's turned the handles and then "Straighten it out" and she'd do it. So Charles was riding "no handed".

Big Girl

Ella is trying really hard to be a big girl. Here she is wearing big girl socks (ok, so they're my mom's)