Life With Ella

This has been a really terrific past 5 days.  At some point we spent time with our immediate family and it was just wonderful.  Ella is so beautiful and sensitive with Milo.  I think she loves having him visit us.  I asked her if she likes him visiting or if she wants him to live with us and she said that she likes having him visit.  Ella knows that she has it great in her life.  She is also in love with her family that doesn’t live with us.  On Friday night, Jesse and Heather flew in to spend the evening with the family.  It’s so rare that we are all in the same place at the same time.  Earlier in the day, the final touches of Ella’s Halloween costume arrived so here is Ella in full Cinderella gear, AJ and Milo, Ella and Milo and then some more…

Ella in her Cinderella costume, cloak and all.

Milo doing what he does best…”chillin”

Mother and son.

First cousins!

Ella feeding Milo. Notice that Milo is almost as long as Ella!

Now here are some pictures from dinner at Acme.  We were all there, Me, Sunny, Ella, my mom and dad, AJ, Michael, Jesse, Heather, Aunt Abigail and Uncle Ray.  It was a great night.

Heather and Ella drawing and Jesse enjoying life.

Michael, Milo, Aunt Abigail and Uncle Ray.  Notice Milo holding Abigail’s hand.

Family shot in front of the big baseball heart.  Not so bad.

The next day, Saturday, Jesse and Heather left early to go back to LA.  Helen, KJ and the girls came over and we realized that KJ and Milo are just big boy babies!

Bookends.

Ella wanted to do a little ballet and found the perfect partner in uncle Michael.

I don’t think Ella ever did ballet up that high.

We took a walk to crossroads – Ella took her scooter and we had some lunch.

Sunny and Michael are pointing at the Bay Bridge.

Grandma and Ella waiting for the light to change.

On Saturday night, Sunny, Ella, Jamie and Milo went to the Kim/Arena’s for movie night.  They all said that they had a blast.  My parents had a business dinner and I went to see 2 of my former students perform at the School of the Arts.  We also took 5 current students to try to inspire them.  The two kids who were preforming did an amazing job and have come such a long way.  I was so happy for them and really proud of the hard work that we have done with them.  Here is a picture of them.  The one on the left is a girl who refused to  wear an evening gown.  Ya gotta love her for that!

Vanna and Sana.

On Sunday, Sunny, Ella and I went to Golden Gate Park for the pet pride event.  We also stopped by at a birthday party for one of Ella’s classmates.  It was a fun day but pretty exhausting.  Ella was spent by the end of the day.

Riding the rooster.

Riding on the carriage with Mommy.

Today Ella didn’t have school so I took off to hang out with AJ and Milo.  Michael went back on the road today.  Grandma and papa came over for breakfast and then papa had to go back to work.  Grandma got to come with me to Ella’s ballet class and she just loved it.  I am much too tired to make a movie right now, but I will within the next few days.

Ella with feathers at ballet class.

Grandma and her happy little ballerina.

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