Life With Ella

Tonight, after her bath, Ella put on her full Cinderella gear.  We were hanging out downstairs about to have dinner and the doorbell rang.   It was the Kim/Arena family coming by to say hi.  Ella was so excited to see her buddies and we were happy to see everyone too.  The girls were all dressed up also – not planned with Ella so they all looked fancy and crazy.  KJ has hit a milestone!  He can crawl.  What a cute, sweet boy. Ella and Stella discussing some serious princess stuff. Ella and Juliet in a beautiful embrace. Hey Stella…what are you drawing? KJ is crawling!

Well at least I think it’s funny…tonight we were having dinner at home and we were talking about St. Patrick’s Day.  One of the families from Ella’s class came in and spoke about St. Patrick’s Day.  They read a story and made their own cool little books.  Then Sunny and I were talking about St. Patrick’s day and we were commenting that everyone we came across had on green.  I started telling Sunny about this woman who I work with.  She was all decked out in green and white and had a green glitter top hat on that was tilted to the side.  I said, “She looked more like a P-i-m-p (I spelled the word) than an leprechaun.  All of a sudden Ella said, “What is a p-m-i-p?  Mama…what is a p-m-i-p???”  She wouldn’t let up.  Sunny and I were crying from laughter.  Finally I told her that I spelled the word wrong and meant to say pip.  She asked what a pip was and we gave some lame description.  It was a funny moment.  Ella had her first swimming lesson with the new teacher and it was really great.  I didn’t take any pictures because I didn’t want to freak him out.  After dinner tonight, we met up with the Kim/Arena’s for yogurt.  It was really fun.Here are the girls excited to get dessert.We are off to spring training in Arizona for the weekend.  Can’t wait to sit back, relax, go swimming and watch some baseball.

What a beautiful weekend.  The weather was incredible.  It was so great to be able to be outside all weekend.  Ella loved it too.  Today the Embarcadero was closed to traffic from the ballpark all the way down to Pier 39.  Ella took a bike ride right in the middle of King Street.  We met up with our friend Karen and had lunch at the Java House.  It was really busy and full of people in our neighborhood today…getting us ready for baseball season.  We’re heading down to spring training next weekend.  Can’t wait to hang out at the pool, relax, catch some baseball.  I figured out how to get the movie downloaded from yesterday so enjoy Ella batting away.  I usually don’t talk when I am filming, but I couldn’t help myself and sounded like an annoying bossy coach at the end.  Oh well.Ella cruising down King Street.Mommy jumping rope right by the Java House.After lunch, we came home and Ella played with bubbles in the Zen Garden.  She was chasing the big bubbles down and trying to pop them.  She loved it when they popped.Even Bug and Towby were having fun outside with the bubbles.

It was a gorgeous day today and we spent most of the morning and afternoon outside.  We went over to the ballpark and Ella played on the little T-ball field by the Coca Cola slides.  Ella swings lefty and was making some great connection with the ball.  I made a little movie, but I can’t get into the program that lets me put it on this site…so Jesse, if you’re reading this – can we talk tomorrow?  After the ballpark, we went over to 2nd and Townsend to meet up with our friend Delia and Sheriff Hennessey.  They were on horseback getting ready to ride in the St. Patrick’s day parade.  Stella and Juliet were with us and they all got to pet the horses on the nose.  We stopped by Becca’s house after that and Ella played with Tucker and Digby.  All my pictures were blurry from Becca’s…I guess Ella and the doggies were too quick for me.  We ended our beautiful afternoon having lunch at Crossroads Cafe.  Here are some shots from today .Ella checking herself out on the way to the ballpark.Ella on the little field playing first base and batting.Ron and the girls – this is one strong daddy!Ella, mommy and Juliet.Delia and the Sheriff getting ready to ride in the parade.

Ells is into this show called Wordgirl.  I think the show is for kids who are a little older, but Ella is kind of sick of Dora and those guys so we DVR Wordgirl for her.  Tonight, we had dinner with Candace and Courtney at Nama.  Ella told us that she wanted to be Wordgirl and picked out a red sweatshirt and then had us tie her raincoat around her neck as her cape.  She went running down the street as Wordgirl…Ella having so much fun running around on King Street as Wordgirl.During dinner, Ella decided that she wanted to take some pictures of all of us.We had a really fun dinner.  Ella was very excited to have Candace and Courtney come over to watch Ponyo.On the way home from dinner, Ella turned back into Wordgirl.When we got home, Ella showed Courtney her Ponyo book in order to help her understand the movie a little better.

It has been a super crazy week for me work wise and I haven’t been living in the moment.  Nothing like Ella to bring you back into the moment.  Today we got an e-mail from one of her teachers telling us that Ella was “having fun at the woodworking table outside with Mr. Derrek today”.  She sent these two pictures.Tonight, we had dinner with some friends from our building.  Ella decided that she wanted to put on a leotard and  some fairy wings and other fairy stuff.  She hasn’t dressed up in public in a while and I think she had a lot of fun with it.Ella after school today before she transformed into a fairy.Our beautiful little fairy.We hooked up with Helen, Ron, KJ and the girls after dinner to celebrate Ron’s birthday with ice cream cake.  Happy Birthday Ron!Stella didn’t feel like being in the shot so Ella took her place.