Life With Ella

We went out of town this weekend to Scottsdale to watch the Giants in 2 spring training games.  We left on Thursday.  On Wednesday night, before we left, Ella had another sleepover at Emmi’s house.  This time their other friend Emily slept over too.  Ella had a great time!  While we were away this weekend, someone asked Ella if she likes sleeping over friend’s houses.  Ella said that she loves it.  Then they asked her if she missed her moms when she was sleeping away from home and she said no.  I think it’s so great that Ella feels secure enough to really enjoy herself when she’s away from us and then be happy when she’s with us again.  We had a great weekend.  So much fun to be at 2 games.  The Giants lost on Friday and won on Saturday.  Ella hung out with her friend Jesse who’s mom is also on the Giants Community Fund board.  They hung out at spring training last year too.  Ella spent a lot of time in the pool this weekend.  It was a little cool for us, but Ella had a blast.  Videos to follow tomorrow… Here are 2 pictures that Emmi’s mom sent us during the play date/sleepover. Ella right before we entered the Scottsdale Stadium. At the game! This must have been around the 5th inning…that’s usually when Ella asks us for the iTouch.  Notice auntie Pie and Michael in the row!  They came down for spring training with us this year. Ella and Jesse after the game.  We were heading to an event to raise money for the Junior Giants. Face painting! Check out the SF that Ella wrote on her hand.  So cute. This wowan was doing silhouettes at the event.  She was amazing.  Did this all with only a scissor.  I have a film of it that I will post tomorrow. Jesse and Ella sharing the iTouch while we were waiting for dinner. Whack a shark! On the way back from dinner, Ella saw this tree and really wanted to climb a little. Mommy and Ella with the big boot.  Mommy bought a pair of cowboy boots right after I took this picture. Hanging out in a very large bell. Ella being adorable. In the hot tub with Jesse. I think Ella is ready to do some diving.  We need to get her to a pool where it is safe to dive. Heading back to our hotel to get ready for dinner.  Like us, Ella loves this weather.

Ella and Sunny spent the day together while I was busy taking some tests to try to get into grad school.  In the morning, Sunny and Ella met up with Becca, Ruthann, Jayden and Jayden’s grandparents for a bowling party to celebrate Jayden’s 4th birthday.  Ella and Sunny told me that they both had a great time bowling, had lunch at Mo’s and then played hard at Yerba Buena park. After the park, Sunny and Ella headed over to our gym for Ella’s Taekwondo class.  From the pictures and reports, it looked like Ella did an amazing job in class.  Sunny and I went out with 2 other moms from Ella’s school.  Today was a beautiful day for Sunny and Ella.  I am really happy that my exams are finished.  Tomorrow we are going over to have a jam session with another CDS family.  Love playing music with other people. Ella is getting more comfortable with bowling.  We just found out that there is going to be a bowling alley built right across the street from our house!  Can’t wait to get team bowling shirts. Ella  in action at Taekwondo.  Here kicks look incredible! Our sweet and peaceful little meditator.

Here are a few pictures from tonight.  Ella just loves playing the piano.  She has been trying to figure some songs out that I have not taught her yet.  Stella taught Ella how to play “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and Ella has really been trying to figure it out.  She has a great ear.  Ella doesn’t have school tomorrow so she asked if we could do her piano lesson early – tomorrow afternoon is Ella’s first T-Ball practice.  Sunny and I are both coaches.   Ella added a few things to her dry erase picture.  The purple guy is a bear and the thing next to him is a honeycomb.  The thing next to the honeycomb is a bee hive. Ella playing away! The gang was playing super hard in the hallway tonight…notice KJ’s sweet sweaty little head!

Tonight after dinner, Ella went to her dry erase board and began another one of her full board works of art.  We only got up to the bee and the flowers, but I photographed her process which is quite beautiful. Beautiful work Ella.  Can’t wait to see what you add tomorrow.  Goodnight beautiful people.

We had a really busy and full weekend this weekend.  On Saturday morning, Sunny had to do some work with the Giants Community Fund and Ella and I met Nikki B for breakfast at the Crossroads Cafe.  It was great to see her and we had a lot of fun at breakfast.  Ella loves the garden at Crossroads and she runs through it pretending she is a fairy eating nectar from the flowers. After breakfast, we went to the ballpark and met up with Brickelle and her family.  We spent time on trolley, slides and then played around in the little ballpark.  We met back up with Sunny at our place and all had lunch and played a little music.  We all had a great time.  Sunny took Ella to Taekwondo in the afternoon and I baked cookies for our night time event.  On Saturday night, we went over to Ella’s friend Eli’s house for pizza and a movie for the kids and pizza and adult time for us.  Ella had a blast with the boys.  She was running around the house wearing a batman costume and her buddy Eli was wearing a Robin costume.  Ella played hard all night and we love the parents so we had a great night too.  On Sunday, we had a wonderful video chat in the morning with grandma and papa and then we met Debby, Toby and Rachel for brunch.   After brunch, we hung around the house all afternoon (it was rainy and Ella needed some rest) and then tonight we met Aunt Abigail and Uncle Ray for dinner.  We had a sweet dinner and Ella wrote a book during dinner which I will post at the end.  Here are some pictures from the weekend – I didn’t take a lot because we were having so much fun! Ella rode her scooter over to the Crossroads Cafe.  Check out her cool yoga poses on the scooter. That’s Ella in the back running to second base in our little t-ball pickup game. ELla and Brickelle playing on Lou Seal and Brooklyn watching from a distance. Ella and mommy heading over to brunch in the rain. So here is her book.  The word “cit” is really kit…When I asked Ella about it she said, “It’s kit – like a took kit or if you want to make kitten short, you can say kit.” Here are Ella’s colors.  On this page, we had red, yellow, purple, pink and blue. Green, orange, black and white. Gray, brown, peach and magenta