Tonight, we were meeting Becca, Ruthann and Jaeden for dinner. Ruthann asked us if we could bring some of Ella’s costumes to dinner because Jaeden had to get dressed up for his last day of camp. We brought her monkey, skunk and dragon costumes to Amicis and at the end of dinner, Ella and Jaeden decided that they were going to put the costumes on. There was a little girl in the restaurant who was watching the whole thing and she really wanted to play too, so we gave her the skunk costume. Ella is getting better at sharing, but she’s not the greatest. At first, she looked at the little girl and mumbled something like, “Why are you wearing that? We don’t even know you.” I shot her a look and she said, “You can wear that.” The kids were really cute in the restaurant and the people eating were sweet and so tolerant. We ended up giving the skunk to the little girl and Ella told Jaeden that he could keep the other two forever. They are getting too small on Ella, but it showed maturity on her part and we told her that she did a great job. We have this red cape and red mask at home that we have been waiting to give to Ella – for a moment just like this when she not only shared, but gave away something that she really liked. She loved the cape and mask and turned herself into Word Girl. Check out the video at the end.
On the way to dinner before the costume party started.
Big costume party at Amici’s. Notice the little skunk stranger who joined the parade.
Word Girl!
Ella is a masterpiece. Love you all. Mom