My baby's growing up...

It's so hard to believe that my little Ellie Bellie is three years old now. Here's a little glimpse of her over the years....
Showing her happy, easy-going personality at just a couple of months old.

Here she is on her first birthday--she still had four months before she would walk, but she was beginning to talk and sign, and was still as pleasant a little girl as they come!

Our sweet Ellie on her second birthday. She'd become such a social, happy little girl, often engaging any willing listener in fascinating conversations they could barely understand.


Here she is on her third birthday...the only time in her lifetime that she will share her birthday with Easter Sunday (next time is 200 years away or so). She had a grand day, although I daresay she was a little overstimulated by the time the kids had sung to her for the hundredth time, our 11 guests had gone home, she'd opened presents, eaten Easter candy and birthday cake, gone to church, gone on an Easter egg hunt...yeah we definitely wore the poor birthday girl out!

We love our Ellie Bellie!