Life With Ella

Today, we drove out to Richmond to visit Elaine, Chole and baby Oskar. Andy (Heather’s brother) was unfortunately at work, so we didn’t get to see him. The last time Ella and Chloe spent time together was in July, so we really had no idea how they would be together. Chloe is 6 months older than Ella. Well…as you will soon see, they hit it off famously. They played really well together, shared with each other and Chloe was extremely compassionate when Ella fell down, hit her mouth and got a fat lip. Baby Oskar is adorable and Elaine was great. It was a really fun morning. When we came home, Ella wasn’t really in the mood for a nap. Sunny and I took Towby and Ella to a park for some fresh air. Bug pulled a muscle or something in her leg, so we didn’t want to drag her out of the house for a long walk. After the walk and a little resting, we walked around our neighborhood (it was a gorgeous night) with Stella, Juliet and Helen. We had dinner outside at a restaurant right by the house. The girls had a blast.

Chloe with her arm around Ella

Right before a big kiss (which I of course missed because the flash wasn’t on automatic)

Oskar had Mommy totally hypnotized

Ella, Elaine and Chloe sharing a very sweet moment

Here’s to a beautiful friendship

Here’s Ella with a head/sweat band on doing her best to look like John McEnroe back in the early 80’s (notice her little fat upper lip)

We were all getting ready to leave for dinner and we let Ella and Juliet play in the hallway while we were getting Stella. Helen took a peek down the hall to make sure that Ella and Juliet weren’t going to make a run for it, and this is what she found – they were walking down the hall holding hands. They are so cute!

Here are our sweet girls hanging out on the steps in the lobby.

Here are mommy and Juliet having fun together while we were waiting for our dinner to arrive

Helen and the girls counting to 10 while mommy went to hide.

This morning, we met Stella, Juliet, Helen and Ron over by the spider. Ella loves the spider and runs to it, but she loves her friends more because she was screaming “Stella…Juliet” all the way there. The kids played around the spider and then on these swivel chairs that are on a pier right by the spider. I left to play tennis, and Sunny and Ella hung around. They went to the ferry building and had lunch with Phyllis. Tonight, Ella, Sunny and I went to Acme for dinner. Ella had some great mac and cheese and was really happy to be there and see everyone. She also has something new that she loves to do at Acme. She loves to hang on the railing like it’s a gymnastics bar. Today was a great day.

Tyrone came to the spider with us today

Hanging out at the spider waiting for Stella and Juliet

Buddies Juliet and Ella with their buddies Elmo and Tyrone

Here’s Ella hanging on her favorite railing

Looks like Ella used her shirt as a napkin tonight

And now for another “campy” video…FRIENDS