Life With Ella

I guess I shouldn’t keep saying that I will keep up with this blog – I’m trying.  Things have been great – Ella is loving life and throwing herself into everything in front of her.  She has become an amazing pogo sticker – her record is 500 something.  I’ll have to catch her on video.  She does it one handed, hops all around – she loves her pogo stick.  Sunny and I want to get an adult pogo stick – looks like great exercise.  Here are some shots from the past week.

Beautiful Ella with her missing tooth.  Ella woke up with her tooth missing – she swallowed it in her sleep when her friend Marlowe was sleeping over.   Marlowe swallowed one of her teeth over the summer so Ella knew it was ok to swallow a tooth.

 Ella and Marlowe watching the Powerpuff Girls the morning after a sleep over.

Ella, Hannah and Naomi kicked Sunny and My butt during a wild game of pictionary junior.

We had a blast ice skating the other day.  Ella helped out Sunny on the ice and she was skating like a champ within 5 minutes.

Ella and Isabel went on the carousel after ice skating.

Ella and her buddy Hannah creating a poster for MLK Day at Ella’s school.

 Ella’s beautiful sign.  Joint effort with Ella and mommy.

 A group of sweet kids on the MLK march.

This video is of Ella sparring on Saturday.  She got to spar with one of the instructors.  She was doing such a great job.  She’s really getting into it!

This past weekend, mommy and Ella went to Monterey.  Sunny was invited to accept an award on behalf of the Giants Community fund from the YWCA in Monterey.  Ella and mommy left early on Saturday morning and headed straight for the Monterey Aquarium.  They both LOVED it.  Ella was super excited about the sea horse exhibit, the sharks, the jellyfish and the otters.  In the evening, they had the awards ceremony.  Ella stayed on the stage with mommy as she accepted the award.  Ella was also a big help in setting up the tables at the country club.  She placed chocolate on all of the place settings.  Here are some pictures from their adventure.

 Ella at the sea horse exhibit.

Jellyfish, sharks and otters!

Ella helping withthe table setup.

Ella and mommy accepting the award.

Frost in the morning!

We had a wonderful break with grandma, papa, AJ, Michael, Milo and Nikki B visiting us.  Thank you for coming here!  We love you guys.  Time to get back to the grind.  Here are some pictures from the end of the visit.

 Early morning video.  Milo looks thoroughly entertained – Ella looks like she’s still sleeping.

 The amount of love that these four have for each other can power a small village!  True love.

 Ella and Milo at the space ship on the way to the Ferry Building.

Watching fish.

 Learning about volcanoes.

 Cousin picture in front of the big fish tank.

Milo insisted that AJ come into this picture.

 Walking up to find the butterflies.

 Ella tried to get a butterfly to land on her finger.

 Saying see ya soon to AJ.  We love you!

 Saying see ya later to a very sad Milo.

 Cooking dinner with Nikki B.