Monday, September 21, 2009

Animal Noises...



Up until this moment, Elina would only make noises for a dog, cow, and lamb (I think that's all). Anyway, then in an instant she began making noises for any animal I asked her about! Crazy! I asked Jason to grab the camera in an attempt to get her to do it again, and sure enough!...she did! She does such fun, cute, random, histerical things all the time, and while I do catch many moments...rarely can get her to something exactly the same as before! Whoo Hoo! I love this video! A parent can't help but be so proud of their child when they learn or do something brand new!
Even now, I am reminded once again that we are so extremely blessed to have Elina Faith in our lives. It's so funny that on a weekly basis we have people tell us that they just want to keep Ellie here when we move, or that she is going to be passed back and forth between two different families (custody battle), or that we are going to have to fly her down to Vernon on the weekends, and on and on. We laugh about it (and honestly sometimes it's a little freaky! Ha), but it's a constant reminder that we are so blessed...that we get to keep her...that she is ours...Thank you for this Huge blessing Lord!..Help me, though, to remember also that she was/is yours before she was ever ours!

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Baby Cox Sonogram...

We had our first sonogram a few weeks ago! It was so sweet to get to see and hear his or her little heart beat for the first time. I thought I would try to get Elina to show you all her little sibling, but she knew the paper was backwards from her and kept turning it around! Elina had just turned 15 mo. and our itty bitty baby was about 9 weeks gestation.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Elina's First Lake Trip...

At the end of August our Canada Team got together for out first retreat. It was a lot of fun and productive as well! We were blessed to get to stay at a lake house and went out on the boat a couple of times. Elina didn't really think too much of being on the lake. She was mostly quiet and clingy...just taking it all in...that or just holding on for dear life...poor thing! While it was Elina's first lake trip, it was also Jason's first time to water ski...

Or attempt to water ski! :) He did so good, just couldn't quite make it. We all had more fun with the tube though. Josh of course had to throw Jason out of the tube, but he was gracious enough not to flip me when I took a turn.

After our retreat we all went to Adeline's second birthday party. They had a jump house, and I was pleasantly surprised that Elina was more than willing to play on it. Up until this party, anytime we were around one she didn't want anything to do with it. If you notice on top of the TV behind me in the video, you can see a precious painting of Adeline. This was a gift from one of their friends...I told the lady I wanted to put my order in for Ellie! :)

Friday, September 18, 2009

One of Nana and PaPaw's visits...

Daddy was watering the lawn (back before we gave up on wasting the money for a green lawn!) and Elina decided to just run out in the water all on her own. She's never done that before. We always have to 'show' her or encourage her that she is allowed to go get wet! So cute!

After playing in the water and getting a bath,Nane got some snuggle time with Ellie...
I think this is such a funny picture...

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Dance

As you may or may not know by now, we don't have cable but we do have the entire collection of The Cosby Show! Elina has gotten quite used to Daddy watching his show everyday for lunch, so we got a good laugh out of watching her on this particular day. She just kept dancing so we kept letting the theme song play over and over and over again. This seriously went on and on, I was so sad that my cutest video of her 'dancing' is too long to post on blogger...oh well...enjoy...





Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Monday, September 14, 2009

Can You Say Jesus?

We're back and I have several fun videos to post and some sweet pictures as well. I'm pretty sure this was recorded when Elina was still 13 mo. (maybe she just turned 14 mo)...
We kept asking her to say her words and then tried to see if she would say Jesus, after several times I finally thought to get my camera out (imagine that). So by this time, she was pretty much done, but if you listen closely she actually says Jesus...