Life With Ella

On Wednesday night, Sunny and I went on a date to the baseball game.  The Giants were playing the Cubs and a friend gave us some very special tickets.  We were literally sitting about 6 feet from the on-deck circle.  It was a magical night and the Giants won.  Today, Sunny, Ella our friend Mary and I went to a Giants vs. Cubs day game.  Again – what an exciting game and the Giants came out as winners.  Ella was great during the game and went over to the Coca Cola slide with Sunny.Tonight, the 3 of us had dinner at home and then watched E.T.  I don’t know how Ella even learned about this movie, but she has been talking about it for about a month so Sunny got it while we were back east.  We had a talk with Ella about the movie and that there was going to be a part where it seemed as if E.T. was dead and that it could be sad but he didn’t really die so the end was happy.  We told her that if she wanted to turn it off at any point, we would happily do it.  We all watched the movie and checked in with Ella during the movie.  She had a lot of questions…mostly “where is E.T.?”  “Is that Elliot?”  “What are those people doing to E.T.?”  “What does examine mean?”  and it went on and on.  She was so interested in the movie.  At the end, E.T. is all better and his ship is waiting for him and he looks at Elliot and says “come” and Elliot is crying and says “stay” and Ella said, “You mean E.T. is going to stay?” and she was so happy.  Then E.T. left.  All of a sudden, the movie was over and Ella started weeping.  It almost didn’t sound real – but we looked at her and she was crying.  We asked her what was wrong and she just kept crying.  It was about 10:10 so we thought she was tired but she said that she wasn’t.  Finally, I said, “Can you please tell us why you are crying?  We want to know so that we can help you.  Can you spell what is wrong?”  She looked at me and made a sign language “L”.  Ok – so I went through all these L words and they were all wrong of course.  I asked her for another letter… Ella said, “E and another E” so now we had LEE.  We were scrambling to figure it out and I said, “Leave – you didn’t want E.T. to leave?”  She said, “Yes!  Why did he have to leave?”  We all had a conversation about #1, it being a movie and #2, that in the movie, E.T. couldn’t  survive on earth so he had to go back to his own planet.  Nothing was really good enough for Ella but she did stop crying.  She put the E.T. box right by her bed.  She is a sensitive little creature.  It was both beautiful and painful to watch. Some cool pics that I took from our seats on Wednesday night. A beautiful night outside of the ballpark. Ella and Bug before the game. Heading over to the slide. Yup – tall enough to go on the little slide. Happy Ella coming out of the slide. FUn on the cable car.

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