It's Sunday morning and today will be the day that all of our summer staff arrive and we kick of another great season. We have already had two intense weeks of training and Ella has been making new friends and being her usual social self. She has been waking up at 7am and I think that may change soon since she woke up at 5:20am this morning looking for Dada. They played and then she went right back to sleep...I think she needed the rest..meeting new people can be exhausting.

Stephen watched Ella yesterday for most of the morning while I came in to work. She did fine at first and then realised I wasn't around and as he says, 'she becomes completely inconsolable.' She still takes the best naps when she is with him;her afternoon nap yesterday was almost 2 hours long.

Ella is eating oatmeal cereal and green beans and sweet peas and yesterday she got her first taste of peaches.I know- veggies first, but I think she will still eat her veggies if she gets a taste of fruit, after all breast milk is sweet and that is the first thing that babies get.

She is now able to crawl backwards and a little bit forwards and is able to walk her hands around to the direction she wants to move. She gets on all fours, stretches out one leg and gets herself into a sitting position-looks really happy when she finds herself sitting. She spent a good bit of time standing in her crib this morning; just holding onto the side and grinning.

Cousin Corbin graduated kindergarten this Friday and Ella was of-course, the noisiest member of the audience. I remember when Corbin was as little as Ella and now he is such a wonderful,big boy and so handsome too. I couldn't help but think that with the way that time flies, I will soon be watching Ella graduate as well. Right now I am enjoying this time which, I am told, is the best thing to do.