February was an amazing month for us!  The #1 reason....

ELLIE!

Ellie was born February 10, 2015. She weighed 7 lbs 5 oz and was 21 inches long.

We got to see her in the hospital and spend a little time with her.

Sadly she spent 2 days in the NICU for antibiotics because they were worried she might have had an infection but she did great!

She joined our family and came home on February 13.  Mia was excited to meet her little sister.

She likes to be the big helper...sometimes.  Mia has had some adjustment issues but is doing better than I expected her to so that's a good thing.

When Ellie came home her bilirubin was super high so she ended up on photo therapy lights at home.  Luckily she didn't seem to mind them too much.

Mia was "keeping Ellie company" while she was hanging out in her bed on her lights.

Ellie's first bath.

Her huge blanket that grandma made her.

The weather has been nice enough we've even been able to go out on a few walks.

Mia was sharing her new baby with Ellie.

Most of February has just been spent hanging at home adjusting to being a family of 4.

My coworkers sent us a dozen chocolate covered strawberries to congratulate us on the new baby.  They were delicious.  Too bad we didn't get to share with Ellie.

Nana got Mia and Ellie cute little Valentine's Day outfits.

We had lots of visitors coming to meet Ellie.  Aunt Jen and her family came.

Aunt Kelli

 Aunt Trina

Uncle Shawn

And more.
My mom came and stayed with us for a week.  Mia loved it.  It's the longest Grandma has ever come to visit.

One day during quiet time Mia decided to turn herself into a tiger.  My mom walked back to the bathroom and saw Mia in her room and she whispered "Shh don't tell mom"  She had colored tiger stripes on both her legs, her arms, her stomach, and some on her face.  It was too funny to even get mad at her.

We have loved having Ellie in our family and are so very grateful for her birth family.  She has an strong, amazing birth mom who we have loved getting to know.  She will forever be our angel.  I promise I will be better in updating next month.  We are loving the warm weather March has brought and I need to get some pictures of the girls room up now that they are all done!