Ella’s bond with Stella and Juliet is so deep. Their relationship is a family relationship. I love watching the 3 of them together and it’s an extra special moment when KJ is in the mix. He’s just super cute and super sweet and loves being around his big sisters and Ella. KJ is super comfortable around me and Sunny and that’s wonderful too. We love our next door family! Ella had a good day at school today – she has little struggles with one of her good friends. Ella ignores her friend at times when she’s doing something that’s fun and her friend keeps calling and calling Ella and Ella ignores her. When Ella’s friend ignores Ella or doesn’t want to play with her, Ella gets super sensitive and very sad. I was trying to explain it to her tonight that they do the same thing to each other, but Ella didn’t seem to grasp the whole concept. She’s going through a stage of “look at me” and it can be exhausting. We’re trying to respond by saying, “I can’t right now, I’m doing something” or “in a minute” or “sorry Ella, you’re going to have to show me later”. She doesn’t like getting these responses but it’s the only way that she’s going to learn to satisfy herself. Today after school, I taught Juliet her piano lesson and Stella came over and hung out with Ella. After the lesson, Juliet came over. They played their little strange games that only they understand and then we all went out to dinner. We went to the burger joint and everyone ate really well and had a lot of fun.
I took this the other morning before school. Ella really wanted to do her math workbook.
We met up with Brickelle in front of school on Tuesday. It was freezing out and Ella was getting shelter behind Brickelle.
Pottery that Ella made at a birthday party 2 weeks ago.
Beautiful Ella dancing around and waiting for Stella to come over.
Playing some kind of fairy wizard of oz game. Who knows!
All the beautiful kids.
It is a beautiful thing to have a built-in extended family next door. Can’t wait to see you all. Love you. Mom