The Garber Fam: 7 & 8 Month Catch Up

Forgive us friends, for we have been busy. It's been more than two months since we've blogged...

Time seems to FLY by, as we've had plans almost every weekend in every direction. Since Easter, we've celebrated my cousin Nancy's wedding and Ella's baptism, had our Garber/Mulvaney family visit, spent our first night away from Ella in SF for Chris's company's IPO party, Cinco-de-Mayo-ed with college friends and Google friends, walked the Brain Tumor Walk in SF, enjoyed a day at Lagunitas brewery with good friends, celebrated my first Mother's Day, had Chris spend another great week at Stanford's Emerging CFO program, went to a couple's baby shower, spent a weekend in Santa Cruz for Stevie's bachelorette party, helped my mom as she recovered from shoulder surgery, celebrated Tyler's high school graduation and Joey Van Loon's college graduation, finished the school year, took a series of baby sign language classes, and had playdates with family and friends. PHEW. I'm more tired now that I just listed it all out.

All of these things have been really fun, and Ella seems to be an object of attention everywhere we take her. It never ceases to amaze us how easy going and happy she is most all of the time. She makes us smile so much every day. Chris and I find ourselves looking at each other saying, "she's the best" on a regular basis.

This now almost 9-month-old has a lot of new tricks up her sleeve. She loves clapping, eating all of the vegetables and fruit we've put in front of her, splashing in the bath, banging cups and toys, waving, "petting" Jackson, playing Peek-A-Boo, saying "mama" and babbling... she is a social, vocal baby who loves to play. From the looks of it, crawling is right around the corner. Stay tuned :)

We'll post some of the highlight photos of the last few months, but if you'd like to see more of her baptism photos, email me, and I'm happy to share them. It was such a special day with so many of our loved ones. Ella is truly a blessed little girl, and we feel blessed to have her in our lives, as well as our friends and family who mean so much to us.

Happy to be 7 months old!

What she is really doing when taking 7 month pictures :)

Parents and Godparents

Parents and Grandparents

We were so lucky to have all of Ella's Great-Grandparents, including her Great-Great Uncle & Aunt, join us!

Papa & Nana love swings as much as Ella :)

Ella could wave at herself all day... haha.
The best is when she waves at herself in the mirror on the seat when getting into her carseat every time :)