Life With Ella

First of all, Ella is still lice free.  Alicia did not find anything in her head this morning.  Ella greeted a very clean Ann this morning.  Thanks for taking such great care of Ella and Ann, Alicia!  You’re the best.  Today after school, I gave Ella her second piano lesson.  It’s been really great teaching Ella and Juliet.  Since I am very serious about teaching Juliet and am trying to figure out the best ways to really get her ready to play and enjoy it, I have the same amount of commitment to teaching Ella.  Both Juliet and Ella are doing a great job and they are both succeeding in working with me as their “teacher” and not Juliet’s buddy or Ella’s mama.  So far, it’s working out really well. I can’t wait to take them to the next level.  Ella did a great job today in her lesson.  She can play Mary Had A Little Lamb by reading the finger numbers that I wrote in her book, and she can identify the keys on the piano.  I am also having both of them go up and down from C – G and back several times in a row hands separate and hands together.  I filmed Ella’s lesson a little bit and I am putting it at the end of this post.  She has amazing focus.  After the lesson, Ella took a shower and headed over to the Kim/Arena’s house.  She was so happy to spend the night over there, watching movies, eating popcorn etc.  Sunny and I went out to dinner with Donna and Nikki B. It was great to see them.  Helen and Ron overheard the girls talking and plotting to get Ella to sleep over…”what if your parents forget about you?  then you can sleep here”.  We came home at around 9:20 and Ella and Juliet were curled up next to each other sleeping on a mattress on the floor.  They looked so sweet.  I picked up Ella and took her home.  We have to have the girls sleep here one night.  Thanks Helen and Ron for taking such great care of Ella. The beginning of another head check.  Ella loves Alicia so much that she doesn’t make a peep when Alicia is going through her hair.  She also doesn’t care about how tight her ponytail/bun thing is!  If I did it, I would be screamed at.  When you got it, you got it. Our little piano player.

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