Life With Ella

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! Ella with her hair down this morning. Waiting for our lunch – Ella and Sunny were doing some math with the little ketchup cups. Getting ready to go to class. Ella smiles a lot in class. Class is over!  Right ofter this, ella began chasing her classmates around pushing these huge exercise balls.

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. Ella and mommy headed into CDS. Casi and Ella at the assembly. Ella and her friend Rosie enjoying their ice cream. Ella was a little cold after she had her ide cream so I gave her my sweatshirt. Happy child. Here we are at the game before the 8th inning.  We were still hopeful and happy.

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. Good morning hugs from Stella, Juliet and Brickelle. Here we are at the game tonight. Tim Lincicum and one of his last pitches.

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. Sunny and Ella doing some mother daughter bonding before the game. Cotton candy! Rally rags! Maybe tomorrow?