Happy New Year!

Ella playing with some of her Christmas loot.

Getting ready for a New Year's Eve party.

Is Avery hugging Ella or choking her...? Not sure.

I can't believe the holidays have come and gone already, that was so fast! It's been a hectic few weeks, though, so I'm ready to get back to "normal". We're still trying to figure out the new routine with me working. I like my new job for the most part, but there are a lot of kinks to be worked out. It's still hard for me to leave Ella, every time. She cries pretty much every time, but I always wait out of sight for her to settle down and it never takes more than a minute or two. Jeff was off all last week, so he was home with her. Now Erin is back this week, so she's having to get used to her again. I know she likes Erin and she seems to do really well with her, which is such a huge relief.

Ella ended up going to see her pedi Dr. Sweet last week. Dr. Sweet said it looked like a head cold that had turned into an upper respiratory infection. She wanted us to start her on probiotics, which we did, and gave us a prescription for antibiotics to start last weekend if she wasn't better. She is still coughing, but she doesn't have a fever, she's playing and eating like normal, so I decided not to do the antibiotics. Jeff and I are still coughing too, but feel fine otherwise, so I think it's just some lingering congestion. I'll sure be glad when we're all 100% again!