Archive for July, 2008

A sun dress and no sweatshirt

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Today was a beautiful day. Ella woke up and told me that she wanted to put on a sun dress (what a surprise!). I already packed her suitcase for our trip back east and put all her sun dresses in it so I tried to fake her out with a tank top. Sometimes, if the tank top is big enough Ella calls it a sun dress. Today, she took it, told me that she didn’t want to wear a tank top, and threw it on the ground. OK – so I went to her closet and looked for a dress. I found one that Ella wore over a year ago and I brought it to her. It’s more of a dress than her casual sun dresses that she wears around and her eyes lit up. “That is a beautiful sun dress mama. I want to put it on right now and only wear that, no sweat shirt, no pants, only the sun dress and my red ruby slippers”. She got her wish except I told her that we were going to walk to the Ferry building, so she had to wear another pair of shoes. She agreed. It was a gorgeous day and we spent quite a while outside. Tonight we went to Acme again. It was really fun there. The Giants were playing the Dodgers and we won! Ella had a terrific time there schmoozing with everyone.

One quick story before the pictures. The other day, Ella had on a tank top (sun dress in Ella’s world that day) and she was taking a sip of water from my cup. She took a really big sip and she spilled some water on her shirt. She told me that she wanted to take it off. I helped her take it off and she said that she wanted another sun dress. I told her that she needed to put on a shirt and pants because we were going out. She tried to run out of our room to go get another sun dress and the door was closed. She came running back in and cried (literally cried) “Oh my god, oh my god – I really need a sun dress”. We compromised and she wore a “sun dress” under her sweat shirt. Her dramatics are incredible!

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Ella about to conquer the “big red ladder”.

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The top of the big red ladder (all by herself).

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Doing some drumming on the wall.

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Ella changed her outfit after the bath and enjoyed hanging out with Adrianna at Acme.

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Here they are hanging out. Ella’s smile tells it all!

Lazy day

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

We pretty much stayed home all day. I packed for Ella and me because we are leaving to go back east on Monday and I wanted to be ahead of the game. In the evening, we took a walk and then ended up at the Kim/Arena’s house. Helen had to take Ron to the ER because he tore a ligament or something in his calf – Ron we hope you feel better! Julie (Emo), Justin and Emily were over with the girls. The girls watched the Letter Factory, a DVD that is teaching them phonics and how to identify letters. They all love this movie. It’s pretty boring to us, but they could watch it for hours. Here are a few pictures of the girls watching the Letter Factory.

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FUN FUN FUN!

By the way – happy anniversary Uncle Jesse. Love you.

The trampoline and the pool

Friday, July 4th, 2008

I’m pretty tired so my words will be few. Ella had a great day today. My Gym was terrific, swimming was terrific and we had a really fun dinner at Acme. We also met up with an old high school friend of mine who is vacationing in SF for a few days. Ella took to Paige right away and we had a really fun afternoon. At one point, I went upstairs to get the dogs and I came down to find Ella and Paige in the closet and Ella was showing Paige all of her shoes. Really cute. Ella met 2 little girls at Acme and she was so sweet with them. She’s quite a social one. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the camera for Acme, but I did have it at My Gym and mommy took a few pictures and movies at the pool. Check out the pool video at the end Ella is walking around the pool like a maniac! No fear, pure happiness and pride.

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Ella having some fun in the ball pit!

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Ella about to conquer the monkey bars (sort-of!)

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Ella is so proud and happy. She was attempting to hang on a monkey bar all by herself.

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Here’s our little old lady walking to the car.

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I got a sweet kiss in the pool.

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Look at the cool big girl hanging on the wall.

Here’s the trampoline/pool video

A sweatshirt and jeans (and of course the red ruby slippers)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

We went to the Giants game tonight – they played the Cubs. It was a fantastic game but the Giants lost. Ella made a deal with us this morning that she would wear a sweatshirt and shirt and jeans to the ballgame if she could wear her red ruby slippers. We all did knuckles on the deal and she kept it with very little protest. There were fireworks after the game but it was too foggy to really see them. Ella fell asleep on Sunny for about an hour and 1/2 tonight. She looked like an angel in red ruby slippers!

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Ella and her pal Charlie Brown.

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Ella decided that she wanted to sit with Snoopy instead of stand.

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Giving Snoopy a kiss.

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Having so much fun with Becca!

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Sleeping beauty…check out mommy’s new coat – it’s been 100 years since the Cubs have won a World Series. Mommy is still waiting!

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Goodnight sweet Ella.

Superfreaks!

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Tonight the Kim/Arena clan came over for dinner and then we all took a walk around the ballpark. The Cubs began a 4 game series tonight (they killed us) so it was fun and exciting outside. The girls made it even more fun and exciting. They all went out in the craziest outfits – well Ella’s wasn’t too crazy – just inappropriate for the weather once again. They all marched outside in costume and were absolutely adorable.

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The girls playing the piano after dinner.

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Here is a preview of the outfits. They were already having a blast in the elevator.

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Here they are! Looks like their own pride parade.

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Checking themselves out in the mirror at the ballpark.

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It’s pretty windy out!

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Here’s Ella taking a moment for herself to think about leotards and tutus and sun dresses.

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Here’s Ella loving her best buddy Stella.