Today was a beautiful day. Ella woke up and told me that she wanted to put on a sun dress (what a surprise!). I already packed her suitcase for our trip back east and put all her sun dresses in it so I tried to fake her out with a tank top. Sometimes, if the tank top is big enough Ella calls it a sun dress. Today, she took it, told me that she didn’t want to wear a tank top, and threw it on the ground. OK – so I went to her closet and looked for a dress. I found one that Ella wore over a year ago and I brought it to her. It’s more of a dress than her casual sun dresses that she wears around and her eyes lit up. “That is a beautiful sun dress mama. I want to put it on right now and only wear that, no sweat shirt, no pants, only the sun dress and my red ruby slippers”. She got her wish except I told her that we were going to walk to the Ferry building, so she had to wear another pair of shoes. She agreed. It was a gorgeous day and we spent quite a while outside. Tonight we went to Acme again. It was really fun there. The Giants were playing the Dodgers and we won! Ella had a terrific time there schmoozing with everyone.
One quick story before the pictures. The other day, Ella had on a tank top (sun dress in Ella’s world that day) and she was taking a sip of water from my cup. She took a really big sip and she spilled some water on her shirt. She told me that she wanted to take it off. I helped her take it off and she said that she wanted another sun dress. I told her that she needed to put on a shirt and pants because we were going out. She tried to run out of our room to go get another sun dress and the door was closed. She came running back in and cried (literally cried) “Oh my god, oh my god – I really need a sun dress”. We compromised and she wore a “sun dress” under her sweat shirt. Her dramatics are incredible!
Ella about to conquer the “big red ladder”.
The top of the big red ladder (all by herself).
Doing some drumming on the wall.
Ella changed her outfit after the bath and enjoyed hanging out with Adrianna at Acme.
Here they are hanging out. Ella’s smile tells it all!