Life With Ella

Today was a great day. It started off with Sunny cooking delicious pancakes which Ella pronounces panacakes. After the breakfast, we all took a walk to South Park because Ella wanted grandma and papa to push her on the swings. After the swings, we went downtown to do a little shopping and eat lunch. That was a bust. It was really crowded downtown and the restaurant where we wanted to eat had an hour and 1/2 wait. We came back to our neighborhood and had lunch at Amici’s. After lunch, grandma, mommy and Ella went to get some ice cream and papa and I went to the Giant’s dugout store to see if there was anything good to buy there. We didn’t find anything. Ella took a nap and we all did our own thing. This evening, we all met Aunt Abigail and Uncle Ray at Scoma’s and had a great dinner. Ella was adventurous tonight. She tried calamari, eggs, crab, and spinach salad in addition to eating her own spaghetti. Ella had chocolate ice cream for dessert and while she was eating it she declared, “I love chocolate ice cream”. We came home and saw Stella, Juliet, Ron and Helen. Ella was so happy to see the girls. We all hung out for a little while and then it was time to go to sleep. We all read books to Ella and now she is soundly sleeping. What a beautiful day and night.

Eating pancakes with papa

Here is our happy girl at the breakfast table.

Getting a huge push from papa

Check out this cool action shot

Look at the love mommy has for Ella as she watches her attack her chocolate ice cream

Ella enjoying her dessert

A special grandma kiss

Papa and Ella surprising us again!

The three amigas back together again!

Another beautiful threesome all in black

Here I am reading “I Howl, I Growl” to Ella

OK – One last goodnight story!

Grandma and Papa arrived this morning after spending some time with Jesse and Heather in LA. Ella couldn’t believe her eyes when she saw them. She was really quiet for a few minutes with this look on her face like she was holding all of her emotions in her mouth and she was going to explode. After a while she was herself again talking up a storm. Sunny had to work, so the four of us (Papa, Grandma, Ella and myself) went to the carousel and then went to the Ferry Building for lunch. After lunch, Papa, Grandma and Ella took naps. When Sunny came home, we went to Acme for dinner and then walked behind the ballpark looking for Stella and Juliet who were possibly going to be ice skating. They weren’t there but we didn’t let Ella know that we were looking for them so she wasn’t upset. It was so sweet to see Ella reunited with her grandparents and to feel all the love today.

Grandma and Ella on the carousel – Papa is holding Ella

Grandma and Papa love Ella so much that they were able to smile through the dizziness of riding the carousel.

Here they are walking to the restaurant.

A better view

Laughing with grandma about the sound a bunny rabbit makes

Feeding grandma ice cream at Acme

Sharing a kiss with papa

Look at this kid! It’s been colder here at night. Check out Ella’s gloves.

Papa has been teaching Ella how to hide and then jump out and surprise us. He is a shot of them in action.