Sparklers, Fireworks and More

We have been very busy since we last posted a blog and Ella experienced many first over the Holiday weekend. Billy's cousin Jonathon was getting married at a Marina at the Jersey Shore, so of course we went! Ella got to ride on a plane for the first time. She handled the trip fine, ours however sucked. Our first flight went from Columbus to Cincinnati...it was fine. Our second flight however was horrible. Lisa didn't have an assigned seat as she had Ella and only certain seats have extra oxygen mask. Our plane was replaced by a much smaller plane so 25 people got bumped...and of course Lisa was one of them. We took an offer for 800 Delta Dollars to fly into Baltimore and then they would pay for ground transportation to Philly (which is where our baggage was going!) Our flight was fine...Ella again did great, but things went down hill from there. Our cab driver was a large man and he kept falling asleep at the wheel. Lisa had to bump him awake. Then we get to Philly (safely thank goodness!) and Lisa's bag is MIA. We come to find that they flew it to Baltimore and it was there the whole time so they said they would have it to use by 5 am the next day. We then had to drive to New Jersey and it took forever. We also had to stop on the way to buy all of our health and beauty aides that were gone in the missing bag. We finally made it to our hotel 8 hrs after our expected arrival. The rest of the trip was great. Ella had her first trip to the beach, New York City, her first plane, cab, train and boat rides. She loved the city and got excited by all of the lights. She was so well behaved and we know that we are truely blessed to have such a wonderfuly little girl. She grows bigger and bigger every day and we love to see all of her new accomplishments. She has her two bottom teeth and several more on the way. She has eaten all of the stage one veggies. She loves carrots the most and dislikes carrots. She also started fruits and has eaten bananas. Not sure she LOVED them, but she did eat them all up. She rolls without any trouble from her back to her tummy (but still cant roll from tummy to back.) She reaches for her toys and tries to scoot to get them. She pushes herself around on her back and does a "back crawl." Ella loves the water and would get very upset when it was time to leave the ocean and/or the pool. She laughs often and is very happy, but when she is mad she is mad. Ella sleeps through the night and enjoys her routine. We have her on a good schedule and she knows and gets very upset. We can hardly believe she is five months old. She is getting so big and while we miss her being tiny we love how interactive she has become!