Life With Ella

Today, we started the day going to a birthday party for Bruno and Natasha (AKA Mei and Kai). It was a sweet get together with delicious dim sum. Stella and Juliet were also at the party so all of the kids played really well together.

Sweet Ella at the birthday party

Bruno, Stella and Ella fighting over the Swiffer. How come Ella never asked to use it in OUR house!?

After the morning party, Ella came home and took a nap. Then we got ready to go to another party in the late afternoon. This one was for Kate – a sweet child who we know from music class. The party was an animal themed jungle themed party. The kids were really cute and we had a fun time.

Here we are at the party – me as an elephant and Ella as a lion

Here are mommy and Ella in a lion/giraffe combination

Last party of the night…HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMO !

Delicious thin mint ice cream cake and beautiful company

Tonight after work, Ella and I were doing a video chat with grandma and papa. They are all so in love with each other and it’s beautiful to watch. At one point, grandma and papa were talking to Ella about the secret agent/super spy Ella pictures from yesterday. All of a sudden grandma disappeared and came back wearing her shades. A few seconds later, papa was rifling around his room and came up with cataract shades. Ella put on her shades and they were all super spies. Sunny came home from work in the middle of all of this and came in the room to see all of the super spies and just cracked up! She couldn’t stop laughing and then Ella couldn’t stop laughing and then grandma and papa were laughing and I captured a picture of it all! The sad thing is, I’ve been trying to upload the picture that I took from the computer and this site won’t let me post a TIFF file and I just can’t get it to be a JPG file right now so you’ll have to use your imagination. If I can convert it, I will post it!

After Ella’s bath tonight, she told us that she wanted to run around in the hallway and that’s just what she did.

Ella running down the hallway

Here she is!

Here are a few pictures that I took of Ella today when we came home from work and there are also 2 more pictures from yesterday at the ballgame that Ron took.

Thumbs up secret agent Ella!

Mommy and Ella at the game yesterday.

Our little beauty

Ella started her day bright and early at her yoga class with mommy. Sunny said that Ella did a great job.

Ella and Tasha at yoga this morning

Ella with her buddies Hariel and Tyler

Check out Ella’s red finger and toe nails (Mommy painted her nails the other day)

The three musketeers all actually paying attention in yoga class!

Mommy and Juliet doing a special yoga pose

After yoga, we hung around the house for a little bit and then we got ready to go to the ballpark to watch the season opener on the jumbotron. The Giants played their first game of the season in LA. My camera battery was dying so I didn’t take it to the ballpark but I was able to capture these beautiful shots of Ella wearing her new Lou Seal hat.

Ella did not take a nap today. Helen, Ron, Stella and Juliet came over for dinner and we all had a great time. The girls have had this obsession with tattoos lately. Ella loves having them on her belly. Stella and Juliet love belly tattoos too. Here are Ella’s latest and greatest tattoos.

OK – so she has a runny nose, her pants are falling down, she has tattoos all over her body, and she looks dazed and confused… but she’s just so beautiful on the inside and out!

Today we just hung around the house. Ella’s has a pretty bad cold so we didn’t really take her out anywhere. Kate came over for dinner and she was treated to ballerina Ella. Ella danced with a tutu and no shirt. She has added a few new hand movements to her repertoire. She’s super cute.

Ella doing a special finger move. Check out her butterfly tattoos.

Sharing a sweet dance with Kate.

The good news is, we have until September 2 to have Ella totally potty trained. I think this may be a long road. Ella still has a cold so we took it easy today. I took her to the SFMOMA and we walked around and looked at all the beautiful paintings and stuff with the beautiful colors. After the museum, we met mommy over at the carousel. We all had a sweet time. When we came home, we decided that we would put Ella in underwear. We told her that if she had to pee or poop that she just had to tell one of us and we would help her make it to the potty. Today Ella peed twice in her 2 different pair of underwear. Right when she was doing it, she told us that she peed, so that’s progress. We told her that it was just an accident that that it happened to everyone. She didn’t see too upset. Ella was very tired tonight – probably due to her cold and cough. She went to sleep at 8:30. That’s a recent record for Ella.Here’s Ella patting me on the head at the carouselWell hi there! Mommy and Ella enjoying a carousel ride