Life With Ella

This was taken earlier today. Ella was singing her little heart out. Here’s an encore of the ABC’s and a few new tunes for you. She has sampled in Patty Cake and Michael Row Your Boat Ashore. Enjoy!

Sunny and I decided to get Ella a new high chair. This chair pulls right up to the table and she can eat with us. No more high chair tray. Here is a little video of Ella eating some mac and cheese (one of her favorites) in her new high chair. Ella has also been working on using her utensils and this video shows some great fork action!

This morning we went to the newly renovated children’s playground at Golden Gate Park. It is a beautiful playground with so many things to do for the kids. We met Helen, Ron and the girls over there. It was a gorgeous day and we all had so much fun. She loved the swings the most (not a big surprise). The Giants were giving out free ice cream in an ice cream truck and Ella had her first popsicle. She did a great job – finished the whole thing. After all the adventure on the playground, we sat in the grass to have some snacks and we played with a Stomp Rocket toy that the girls have…not sure who enjoyed it more, the kids or the parents. Finally at the end of our morning at the park, we took Ella on the carousel and she LOVED it. She loved it so much that when it was over, she began to cry hysterically. Sunny and I were very dizzy from the experience and were happy that the ride ended! I was so inspired by the great day and great fun that of course, I made a movie about it. This one is a bit longer than the others so I apologize ahead of time if it’s too much.

Here is a short video of Ella dancing at My Gym.  She’s doing a dance to one of her Music Together songs called “Old Brass Wagon”.  She really does this one well…

We went out to dinner with some friends tonight, and throughout the evening Ella asked us if she could walk around. I guess the high chair isn’t exactly the most comfortable place. I took her outside during one of our walks and she was looking in a store window singing “happy birthday”. She spotted a fly in the window and then sang “happy birthday fly”. When she finished singing she wanted to see the fly again. At the end of the video she is saying, “Again fly…again fly”.

Ella has been taking a Music Together class for the past 13 months. She really enjoys the class and has been making such great progress. She can now tap out rhythms on her legs, dance to the music and play all different types of percussion instruments. At home, she sings along to the songs and does all of the movements from the class. One of the moms in the class just had another baby and Ella loves him. In part of this video, Ella is dancing for the baby.

Here is a video of Ella in the bathtub and then playing around on a little chair she has in her room.  The clips of the songs are “this is the way we wave goodbye”, “happy birthday” and “the wheels on the bus”.

Ella’s second music video is the Alphabet Song.  Enjoy.

OK – the anti-blogger is now starting a blog for Ella.

She’s changing so much every day and we are capturing it all on video.

We want to have a place to share this amazing child with all of you.

Here is her very first music video. She’s singing a song by AJ.

AJ’s audio version is included for reference.