Life With Ella

Today was our last day in Hawaii.  We had a beautiful vacation.  It was fun and relaxing and it was so wonderful to see Ella in a totally different environment.  Ella is so in love with the water – she loves swimming.  Today we went to Hanalei Bay.  Ella had so much fun learning how to “surf the waves”.  There are sweet and steady waves on the bay.  The water was a really comfortable temperature and the bottom is smooth – just sand.  Ella loved catching a wave and riding it in.  After she did it with the boogie board, she switched over to her little inner tube…she had a lot more freedom that way.  After the bay, we went into Hanalei and had lunch and shave ice.  We spent the rest of the afternoon and early evening at the pool.  Something funny about Ella – at the pool, in order to go down the slide, one of the people who works at the pool makes sure that the kids know the rules.  The rules are:  no running, only one person at a time, only go down on your butt, feet first… Ella is obsessed with the rules and over the past few days has made herself the pool guard.  If a kid is running, she yells after them, “No running”  if they are going down the slide the wrong way, she says, “feet first…do not go down that way”.  Sometimes the kids listen, sometimes they don’t, but they all tolerate Ella’s bossiness.  It’s pretty funny to watch.  She just stands there with her bathing cap and goggles and points her finger, puts her hands on her hips, puts her hands on her head, and barks commands.  She is one funny kid. Learning how to boogie board. Chillin’ in the inner tube. Now its Sunny’s turn to boogie board.Ella our very own “mystery lifeguard”. See ya later Hanalei Bay. Happiness at the beach. “No running!” Ella is out of her mind that this kid is about to go down the slide backward. One more time down the slide.Practicing flips with mommy. The beautiful moon we saw tonight.

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