The first year that Ella started school, when we asked her what she did, she would say either nothing or, “I played”. The second year, we got a little more out of her but not so much. This year, when she’s in the mood, we can’t get her to stop. Here is a great example from tonight. We were coming home from dinner and she started talking about this pumpkin in her classroom. Today the kids guessed how much it weighed. Ella said that she thought it weighed around 37 pounds. I don’t think it weighs that much…Ella weighs 38 pounds and I picked up the pumpkin with one hand but that’s not the point. After she said how much she thought it weighed she went into this monologue…”When I pick up the pumpkin, I have to be sitting down because if I pick it up when I’m standing up, I could drop it and then it could split in half. We have a lot of things that we have to do with the pumpkin. We are going to cut the top off and then feel inside and it will be squishy and stringy and then we will get the seeds out. After we get the seeds out, we are going to count them. After we count them we can cook them and eat them. You see – there are so many things to do with the pumpkin before we carve it at the end of October.” It was so great – she was so animated and happy and proud and it was wonderful. After school today Ella had her swimming lesson. She is doing really well – check out the video.
Ella super happy to go to school today.
Nothing like seeing Brickelle after a long weekend.
Wow! Ella is really breathing doing the crawl. I see she’s breathing on her left side; seems to be more natural for her than the right. Ambidextrous? It’s wonderful how Ella is excited about learning and that she wants to share it with you guys. Can’t wait to hear a blow by blow in person. Love you. Mom