Ella is 3!

Three years ago today, I was sitting in a hospital room. The day before, I had given birth to Ella after being in labor overnight. She was beautiful. And I so glad I wasn't pregnant anymore! But our lives changed a lot that day. Here's a picture of her, less than a day old. Wasn't she tiny?


Here she is on her first birthday. She wasn't too sure about the cake.


Her second birthday, reading her new book with Daddy. By the way, the bottle was Amelia's.


And here she is yesterday, blowing our her candles. Where has the time gone?


She's grown up so much in the past 3 years. She can hold conversations now and sometimes tells jokes (knock knock ones - they don't make sense but she tries). She's empathetic and so smart. She's stubborn too. She asks us a lot if we're happy. We can answer her honestly that we are. Here's another picture. Even in footie pajamas, she looks like a little girl now, not at all like an infant and less like a toddler.


Time keeps moving forward. By this time next year, we'll have three little girls. Mia will be 2.5 and Nora will already be 7 months old. Crazy, isn't it? They grow so fast, but we're so proud of the little people they're becoming. Hard to believe it's already been three years and hard to believe we've only had her for three years. Happy birthday Ella!