Archive for October, 2010

Beautiful Saturday

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

I don’t think any of us realized how beautiful it was going to be today.  Ella slept in this morning (8:30 is sleeping in for her) and we had a relaxing morning.  We decided to go to the ferry building for lunch.  Ella wanted to ride her bicycle down there.  Ella did great.  She rode the entire 3 mile round trip.  I think it’s almost time to get rid of the training wheels.  Ella gets distracted pretty easily and at times needs to be reminded to look straight ahead and not get distracted by something else going on so we have to work on that a little bit more before the training wheels come off.  After our active early afternoon, Ella had taekwondo.  She had a great class.  She seems to have a really good time in class and learns the moves pretty quickly.  It’s pretty challenging.  She tends to be entertained by the kids who get in trouble and have to run laps.  There is a little taekwondo video at the end of this entry.  After taekwondo, we came home for a little while and then met Toby and Debby for dinner at Moki’s.  By that time, Ella was pretty exhausted but she hung in there and we had a nice dinner.  We’re getting ready to watch the Giants game tomorrow at our place.  We have our rally rags and pom poms ready.  Go Giants!19.jpg Ella with her hair down this morning.29.jpg38.jpg Waiting for our lunch – Ella and Sunny were doing some math with the little ketchup cups.44.jpg Getting ready to go to class.53.jpg Ella smiles a lot in class.62.jpg Class is over!  Right ofter this, ella began chasing her classmates around pushing these huge exercise balls.

Orange Friday

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

Ella wanted to wear her Giants sweatshirt to school today.  She has Giants fever.  Ella had a great day at school and then we did our Friday Bi-Rite ice cream run.  After Bi-Rite we came home, Ella took a shower and then she ran over to Stella and Juliet’s for dinner, a movie and the beginning of a sleep over.  Sunny and I went to the game and were so happy until the 8th inning.  It went downhill from there.  Wow – what torture.  We’ll get them in Atlanta.  This has been a really fun season!  I’m not ready for it to end.18.jpg Ella and mommy headed into CDS.28.jpg Casi and Ella at the assembly.37.jpg Ella and her friend Rosie enjoying their ice cream.43.jpg Ella was a little cold after she had her ide cream so I gave her my sweatshirt.52.jpg Happy child.61.jpg Here we are at the game before the 8th inning.  We were still hopeful and happy.

Let’s Go Giants!

Friday, October 8th, 2010

What a great night!  Sunny and I were at the game tonight and the Giants won 1 – 0.  It was an amazing game.  Ella had a great day too.   Well actually she started the morning off by telling me that I was the worstest – I told her to go to the bathroom before she left for school and she got mad.  It wasn’t like I was being a nudge, she hadn’t gone to the bathroom since the night before and I didn’t want to get stuck in the car with Ella having to pee!  She got over being pissed at me once she heard Stella and Juliet in the hallway.  She went to school and found Brickelle so she got to see her 3 favorite friends within 30 minutes.  Ella was also really happy that Ms. Alicia was back in the classroom.  She was out on jury duty for 2 days this week…we are all happy that she didn’t get picked.  After school was soccer – Ella had fun at the practice.17.jpg27.jpg Good morning hugs from Stella, Juliet and Brickelle.36.jpg Here we are at the game tonight.42.jpg Tim Lincicum and one of his last pitches.

The Hannah wig

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

For some reason, Ella won’t wear the Hannah Montana wig when Sunny and I are around.  She loves wearing it with friends.    I snuck a picture.16.jpg Ella, Bella and Brickelle and a good morning hug.26.jpg This is the picture that I snuck.35.jpg Borders across the street is closing any day now.  Today I went there to get some Magic Tree House books for Ella and I saw this book for only $3.00.  She almost had a heart attack when we gave it to her.

Swimming

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Ella has a new teacher for swimming again.  They had their second lesson today.  He looks like a great teacher.  After the first lesson he wrote:  I had a great first lesson with Ella (I hope she enjoyed the lesson as well). She is very advanced for a child her age.  I greatly look forward to working with Ella.  I think Ella responds really well to him too.  Let’s hope that he sticks around for a while.  Ella had a great day at school too.  She’s just really loving life.15.jpg25.jpg34.jpg   These were taken this morning in the classroom.  Ella was checking out these magnets that were in the science work area.  Ella took the last pic of her magnet pattern. Here is a movie of Ella swimming this afternoon.

I don’t know how she does it!

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

I am in awe of Ella and her Mondays.  First of all, Ella fell asleep pretty late last night – probably all the excitement from the Giants and stuff.  It was a little difficult getting her up this morning but once she was out of bed and had her flamingo slippers on, she was ready to rock and roll.  When I picked her up, she seemed like she had a great day at school and then a great time at tree frog trecks.  She came out with a toilet paper roll colored in and a string around it and told me that she made an elephant’s trunk.  She also told me that she touched a snake named Jake.  After all that, I took her to ballet where she did a fantastic job.  I made a video from her class.  She is doing different things in the 5 -6 year old class…great to watch.14.jpg Ella and Brickelle and their good morning hug.24.jpgPosing outside of ballet.33.jpg Warming up in ballet.

The Giants did it!

Monday, October 4th, 2010

We spent most of the day in the house playing with Ella and then watching the Giants game.  Ella was really into it – of course she was playing around with everything she could find, but she was into the game.  When the Giants finally won, she was jumping up and down and yelling and screaming.  She was thoroughly entertained by Sunny’s “passion” for the game and it was all great.  The neighborhood was full of happiness and great energy.  We start the post season next week…1st game on Thursday against Atlanta.  Later in the evening, we were on our way out to have dinner at the Public House and we bumped into the Kim/Arena clan in the hallway.  The kids played and ran around.  We are so happy they are staying.13.jpg23.jpg32.jpg Fun in the hallway!  I have no idea what Ella and Stella were writing, but they were very serious about it.51.jpg Fooling around at the Public House.6.jpg I just love these trees!7.jpg Ella and I drew this Giants angler fish this morning.  It’s going to stay here until we’re done.

Bad day for the Giants, great day for us

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

The title may be misleading…it was not a great day for us because the Giants lost.  It was painful to watch the Giants lose – especially since the first two runs were scored on walks.   The great day for us was that we learned that the Kim/Arena clan are not going to go to Noe Valley for 8 months – they are staying right here where they belong.  We love you guys!  You can’t ever leave the building.   Sunny left the game today to take Ella to taekwondo and got a text from Helen that they weren’t going to move during the class.  After the class, Sunny told Ella that Stella and Juliet weren’t going to move and Ella got so excited that she punched Sunny on both sides of her face!  In Sunny’s words, “Ella jawed me!”  Ella is like Elaine from Seinfeld – she has a difficult time controlling herself when she’s excited.12.jpg Sunny and Ella doing some mother daughter bonding before the game.22.jpg Cotton candy!31.jpg Rally rags!41.jpg Maybe tomorrow?

Determination

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

Well – the Giants lost tonight, but they played with heart and hopefully they will clinch tomorrow.  We will be at the game, but need to leave for a minute to take Ella to taekwondo which she does not want to miss.  Hopefully the Giants will have a huge lead when I take her there.  Today after school, Ella told me that she wanted to show me something.  She took me over to this bar that the kids hang on and said, “Watch this”.  Ella proceeded to pull herself up and hang on the bar.  Ella has not been able to reach the bar since she started at CDS and she always wants us to pick her up so that she can hang.  I think she has been watching the other kids do whatever they do to get up and Ella has been practicing.  Of course I caught it on video and will put it in this entry.  OK – time to go to sleep.  Go Giants!11.jpg Ella and Casi at the assembly today.  The 6th graders put on a great skit.21.jpg Heading back into the classroom!

Giants and soccer

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Today, Sunny and I went to the Giants game at 12:45 and left at around 2:45 to pick up Ella and Maya and take them to soccer practice.  When we left, the Giants were winning and they kept the lead and won the game!  We have 3 games left from the regular season and all we need to win is 1 of the next 3 games against San Diego and we will clinch the NL West title.  It’s gonna be crazy around here over the weekend!  Ella had a great soccer practice today.  I am even putting in a little video of Ella scoring a goal at practice.  We’re missing her soccer game on Saturday because we are going to a Giants game and Ella has taekwondo.  It’s going to be a great weekend.1.jpg ON the way to soccer practice.2.jpg Ready for parctice!3.jpg Hugging her friend Tessa.4.jpg Kicking the ball to the car.5.jpg Great balance, even while holding a soccer ball.