Life With Ella

The Giants will not have a post-season this year, but that isn’t stopping us from enjoying the games. Today we went to our first game since we’ve been back. We played the Dodgers and lost to them but we had fun. After the game, we went to a friend’s birthday party and reconnected with some friends who we hadn’t seen in a while. It was a really fun day and night.

Getting ready to go to the game.

Ella at the game. It was a beautiful day.

Ella and Becca at the birthday party.

Sunny and Ella catching up with our friend Heidi

This morning, we went to the beach with Helen, Ron, Stella, Juliet, Julie and Justin. It was a pretty foggy day, but we all had such a great time. Sunny tried to fly a kite (video coming soon), Ella learned how to climb her way out of a hole, we played wiffle ball, ran around and just had a blast. Here are some pictures from the day.

A little cold out, but beautiful because we are all together

Ella climbing out of the hole…almost there

Yay – Ella made it out of the hole!

Stella loved being covered with sand

Ella and Juliet together in the sand pit

Hanging out and loving life

Playing around in the sand

We got back from our east coast adventure yesterday. Helen picked us up at the airport and Ella was so happy to see her. In the car on the way home Ella kept talking about Stella and Juliet. When we arrived back at our place, Helen took Ella upstairs to see the girls while Sunny and I unpacked the car. We heard from Helen and Ron that the reunion was quite beautiful…lots of hugs and kisses and “honey look at this”. We met Ellen for dinner at Acme – Ella was really happy to see her also. Ella is amazing at transitions. She fell right into a routine in NJ, and when we came back here, she went right back to her routine here. Ella also did a video chat with grandma and papa when we came home last night and she was really happy to see them.

Ella went to sleep at around 8:30 last night. She slept through the night, but woke up at 5:20 am and never fell back asleep. We all had a sweet day today. We took Ella to the two parks near our house. Ella started crying for Stella when we came home from the park before we went out to dinner. We told her that Stella wasn’t home but she didn’t believe us. She looked at Sunny at one point and said, “Knock on Stella’s door”. Sunny was floored! We had dinner with Debby and Toby at Pasta Pomodoro. It was a great dinner. After dinner, we rang Stella’s doorbell and the girls got to play with each other. The friendship that Ella has with Stella and Juliet is truly beautiful. Ella fell asleep at around 9:10 tonight so we’ll see if she can pull out another hour or so. I hope so…I’m very tired.

The swings!

Running up and down the wall at the other park

Back together again

Goodnight kiss from Juliet

Goodnight kiss from Stella

We’re going back to San Francisco tomorrow.  It’s been a wonderful month.  It was so great to spend time with everyone.  Whoever we missed – we’ll see ya next time.  Thank you grandma and papa for a beautiful month.  We love you very much.

Cousins hanging out on the terrace

Normyn taking a little nap in Ella’s room

Grandma, papa and Ella pose for a beautiful shot.

Something is very funny!

Time to say goodnight.  Love you!

Today, grandma and I took Ella a park in Leonia – the town my parents live in. The park has this huge structure with tunnels and slides and other fun stuff. Ella tried to get grandma to go into the tunnels and go on the tunnel slide, but grandma decided that it was something for one of Ella’s mommies to do. Since Sunny was home doing work, it was my job to go in the tunnel and go on the tunnel slide. It was a bit of a challenge but we did it!

Ella climbing through the little tunnel

Let me drive the bus!

Oy – this is the structure I was talking about. We climbed through the alligator, went across a shaky bridge, crawled through the blue, yellow, red and green tunnel, went up some steps and went down the tube slide.