Life With Ella

We decided to keep Ella home from school on Monday – just waiting to hear from the doctor and make sure that she’s no longer contagious.  Ella had impetigo which sounds like a disease from the 1800’s and kind of looks like one too.  She’s been amazing and has really stopped picking her nose.  We think she’s good to go back to school but we don’t want to be that obnoxious family that sends their contagious child to school when taking an extra day could make a world of a difference as far as infecting other kids.  Today we met up with Debby, Toby and Rachel, had lunch at Nordstrom and then we finally made it to the Jewish museum.  It’s such a beautiful museum but really has limited art.  The Curious George exhibit was really interesting…the people who wrote the book escaped Nazi Germany, but I don’t think Ella was especially interested in that.  After the museum be had some delicious cream puffs at Beard Papa and then headed home.  After dinner tonight, Ella took a shower.  When she was finished, I took out a magnifying mirror and got her to take some of the stuff out of her nose.  It’s pretty gross, but it was all dried up and ready to go.  She got a lot out but when she saw that her nose was bleeding a little bit, she freaked out and started crying and wouldn’t get the rest of the stuff out.  I distracted her by showing her a Miley Cyrus video on my iTouch.  She said that her nose was hurting her a lot.  I think it probably did because it was raw, but the blood scared her.  Ella said that she really wanted to go to school and that she missed Ms. Alicia.  I don’t blame her.  She also said that she didn’t want to miss any learning.  I assured her that she would hopefully be back on Tuesday and that she had a lot of learning ahead of her.  ELla also told me that she really missed grandma and papa.  I told her that I spoke to them today and they really miss her too.  We’ll all see each other again in 7 weeks.  The photos today are unedited – it’s not so bad. Ella on the train headed downtown. This is a drawing of a baby hippo with glasses. Ella and Rachel on the water steps. Finally!  At the Curious George exhibit. Ella got this toy at the museum.  She was making “contraptions”. Ella took this picture of her contraption.  Look at her cute feet!

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