Bittersweet days

The bitter first: Gaga went home on Saturday. :-( It was so nice having her here and it's taken Ellie and I a few days to get used to her being gone -- Ellie seemed to be looking for her all day on Sunday. Luckily, Gaga and Papa will be here in a couple of weeks, so we can look forward to that!

And now the sweet: Christmas came early to Plano. It came in the form of a HUGE consignment sale with tons of baby-related stuff. Gaga and I went on Friday and we found all kinds of bargains. We ended up getting bags and bags of toys for Ellie -- all of them for just a few dollars each. I love bargain shopping! And Ellie loves her new toys -- she gets so excited looking at all of them and trying to decide what to suck on first.

Although Ellie hasn't started crawling yet, she's still working on it and she's also getting quite good at standing without support (we will obviously need to work on her treatment of animals -- poor, poor ostrich):