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A Leap

Nothing is official until it's on the blog and facebook, right?
Well it's time to fully make this official and announce that I have become a LuLaRoe Consultant!
This was not an easy decision to decide to sell LuLaRoe, but I sure hope it was the right one.
I love their clothes, and I knew that I wanted other woman to see how great their clothes are.
I have loved their clothed for after I had Ella.
Leggings have been my best friend when my jeans didn't fit comfortably yet.

This could be life changing for my family.
I know it will be hard work, and I am prepared to work my butt off to ensure that I succeed.

If you want to join my facebook group so you can see all of the goodies I get you are more than welcome to! My first sale will hopefully be this week!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lularoerachellloyd/

Here's to taking a leap and trying something new!

This will be my only LuLaRoe marketing plug on my blog, so please don't hate me or stop reading just because of this post :)

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February

We decided to have a little superbowl party with some of our neighbors as well as my sister and her friend, Emily. 
There was 5 kids 2 and under and 8 adults in our little house. 
You really missed out if you weren't there :)
I think most if not all of us were rooting for the falcons, but I could be wrong about that?
I'll take any excuse to make some decorations with my cricut.
I learned how to write with my cricut, and figured this was the perfect reason to try it out. How cool is that?!
In the midst of the chaos these two snuck away to Hudson's room to play. 
It was adorable. These two are best friends one moment and fighting over a toy and hitting each other the next. It's brotherly love. I tell ya.

Just like any other holiday, Valentine's day is more fun when you have children.
We went to open gym in the morning, spent a little bit of time outside, and enjoyed the love day.
I don't think we were cute enough parents to get our children anything, but I did make them some shirts. That should count for something, right?
Carly and I shared a design and made shirts for the kids. 
Fun fact: Hudson is 2 months younger than Kaiden and Ella is 2 months younger than Emma. 
That brotherly love (insert heart eye emoji)
Ella had 2 Valentine's Day outfits because she spits up so much that I knew one outfit wouldn't be enough haha. 
Really though I got this "my first Valentine's Day" onesie on clearance last year. It might possibly have been meant for a boy to wear it? Either way I had to take a picture. 
Taylor came home from work with some chocolate covered strawberries for me.
Hudson promptly demanded one and got chocolate drool all over his white shirt. 
We won't talk about how it was before we were able to get a picture of the kids together..
My parents mom got Hudson these glasses and some chocolates, and she got Ella a little stuffed bear? Dog? A stuffed something that was red and white and valentiney.
Hudson wore these all over the place for a while including outside to go play.
This picture makes me want to remind him that they exist again.

Date night this month was a combined birthday and Valentine's date.
We ate at the Roadhouse (no surprise there considering it was Taylor's choice and we still had a gift card), and we went and saw Fantastic Beasts in the cheap theater.
Taylor turned the big 26 on the 19th. I say the big 26 because it means he got kicked off his parents' health insurance hahaha. He got a basketball he's been wanting for a long time, and a sub for his truck.

Other random less significant but I still want to have documented moments from the month: 

I taught myself how to make matching bows and bow ties thanks to a little help from pinterest, and I've spent quite a bit of time making them lately. 

Ella had her 4 month check up at the beginning of the month, and I couldn't resist this comparison picture of the two of them at the same appointment.

Dinners with the Bushes that lead to toddlers with nerf guns are kind of my favorite.
It's both hilarious and terrifying all at the same time.

Getting released from the primary presidency means these two get to have some more best friend time. It won't be long until Ella is sitting up playing with Emma.



We're getting to the point where Hudson is starting to say some cute and funny things even though he really doesn't talk much still. Eventually this will probably become its own blog post, but we have a ways to go before he talks enough for that. So here we go with "Hudson says huh?"

At church one Sunday Hudson handed a teddy graham to a little boy sitting in the pew in front of us. After handing him the teddy graham Hudson said to the little boy, "What do you say? Thank you."

We told Hudson to go brush his teeth and on the way to the bathroom he was saying
"sun beam" and jumping when he said beam. It took me a second to realize what he was doing, but he was singing Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam to himself. It was absolutely adorable. I hadn't ever sang that song with him, so that shows he is learning a lot at nursery.

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12 Months of Ella// Month 5

Weight: 15 pounds

Height: Around 26 inches

Diapers: Size 2

Clothes: she still has some 0-3 month clothes, but she is also starting to fit into 3-6 and 6 months clothing.

Sleeping: Her sleep is fairly unpredictable. She still usually takes 3 naps a day- shorter morning nap, long afternoon nap, and shorter evening nap. Some nights she is up twice while other nights she only gets up once. Some nights it takes me 1-2 hours to get her back to sleep and other nights she goes right back down. She goes to bed between 7 and 8 and that is pretty predictable. She typically has an hour or just over an hour of awake time before she is ready for another nap. After her last nap of the day is probably her longest awake period. She is up for the day around 8. It just depends when the last time she ate was. She is still swaddled for sleep, but that needs to change asap because she has rolled over while swaddled.

Eating: If Ella is not swaddled and going to sleep, then she is a pretty crappy eater. She gets so distracted that she'll only eat 2 ounces at a time even though she is hungry, so she usually only gets fed if she is going to sleep. It still works out to be around 4 ounces every 3 hours. I'm excited to start solids this coming month!

Milestones: Ella is doing things her own way and rolled from back to belly on January 22nd. Most babies roll from belly to back first, but she has spent a long time trying to get her over her arms. She spends a whole lot of time rolling to her belly these days. She just rolled from her belly to her back the first time this morning. She found her feet just in the last week. She had her first Valentine's Day.

Likes: playing with toys/ being swaddled for sleeping/ grabbing onto everything and anything (toys, hair, shirts, etc./ rolling over

Dislikes: not being able to roll off of her belly/ getting splashed in the face in the tub/

Personality: She has really become so intrigued and interested in everything. If you have her on your lap, then she will lunge at anything you're holding to try to get her mouth on it. She is super smiley, but she doesn't laugh a ton.

I am continually amazed at how different Ella is from Hudson as a baby. By her age Hudson was sitting up on his own for short periods of time, and she does not sit up on her own at all. Hudson was super ticklish and laughed so easily, but it can take some serious work to get a laugh out of Ella. I can't wait to see their differences shine through even more in their personalities.

Of course she struggles more the time I go to record her than she normally does, and who knows what Hudson is saying no to haha. 


Hudson's 5 month update can be found here.

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