Life With Ella

Ella’s bond with Stella and Juliet is so deep.  Their relationship is a family relationship.  I love watching the 3 of them together and it’s an extra special moment when KJ is in the mix.  He’s just super cute and super sweet and loves being around his big sisters and Ella.  KJ is super comfortable around me and Sunny and that’s wonderful too.  We love our next door family!  Ella had a good day at school today – she has little struggles with one of her good friends.  Ella ignores her friend at times when she’s doing something that’s fun and her friend keeps calling and calling Ella and Ella ignores her.  When Ella’s friend ignores Ella or doesn’t want to play with her, Ella gets super sensitive and very sad.  I was trying to explain it to her tonight that they do the same thing to each other, but Ella didn’t seem to grasp the whole concept.  She’s going through a stage of “look at me” and it can be exhausting.  We’re trying to respond by saying, “I can’t right now, I’m doing something” or “in a minute” or “sorry Ella, you’re going to have to show me later”.  She doesn’t like getting these responses but it’s the only way that she’s going to learn to satisfy herself.  Today after school, I taught Juliet her piano lesson and Stella came over and hung out with Ella.  After the lesson, Juliet came over.  They played their little strange games that only they understand and then we all went out to dinner.  We went to the burger joint and everyone ate really well and had a lot of fun. I took this the other morning before school.  Ella really wanted to do her math workbook. We met up with Brickelle in front of school on Tuesday.  It was freezing out and Ella was getting shelter behind Brickelle.Pottery that Ella made at a birthday party 2 weeks ago. Beautiful Ella dancing around and waiting for Stella to come over.Playing some kind of fairy wizard of oz game.  Who knows! All the beautiful kids.

Ella had a great day today.  At assembly today, the 8th grade buddies for Ella’s class performed.  They usually sit with their buddies during assembly.  I looked over at Ella’s class to find her and there she was, sitting between Ms. Gladys and Ms. Alicia.  She had such a huge smile on her face.  I was wondering why she was sitting there, but she told me she wanted to.  I think that she may have been talking a lot because she was so hyper and happy in the morning.  After school, Ella and I went to Bi-Rite with Brickelle and her family. The girls had so much fun together.  Tonight, we had Friday night movie night over here.  Yesterday Stella requested that we watch Pinocchio.  We all watched Pinocchio while Helen and Ron went out and did some grocery shopping.  Maybe next time they will actually get to go out and have dinner or something!  Of course Friday night movie night was a blast and KJ hung in there and had so much fun with all of us. Gladys, Ella and Alicia singing happy birthday at assembly today. I love these two together! Ella and Brickelle after school.  That stuffed animal thing is part of Brickelle’s class.  Each kid gets the chance to take it home for the weekend.  Akilah said that the first thing she was going to do with that thing was put it in the washing machine! Sharing ice cream with the thing.  By the way – Ella decided that she was going to wear a tank top to school on Thursday night.  She wore a tank top and a sweater but Alicia said that once assembly was over, she took off the sweater and just wore her tank top all day.  I guess Ella can’t wait for the summer. The upside down hug. Friday night movie night!

On Tuesday, Ella yelled out, “Oh no – I just saw my shadow.  That means 6 more weeks of winter!”  I told her that I thought that applied to a groundhog, not Ella!  Then we asked her where she heard about groundhog day.  She said that Alicia taught the class about it.  This morning (Wednesday) Ella woke up at 6:30 on her own (I usually have to wake her up at 7:00) and she said that she was very excited to find out if the groundhog saw his shadow or not.   Tonight Ella told us that when Alicia told the class that he didn’t see his shadow, she got very excited and jumped up and down on her knees.  I don’t know how much of this is true, but I think it’s great that she’s paying attention and is retaining so much information.  Ella also told me about a part of a movie about bees that she saw today.  She said, “Did you know that bees only live for 1 month?  That’s sad.  A month is very short.”  I told her that she had every right to be sad and then I told her that maybe in the bee world, a month felt like 100 years for us.   Ella hung out with Stella today while I gave Juliet her piano lesson and then Juliet joined them.  Ella loves Wednesday afternoons. Today before I went over to Juliet’s, Ella came running into my room, curtsied and said, “Your majesty”.  She is one funny kid! Buddies watching Madeline. Ella loves practicing!