Dancing with the Animals

The Virginia Symphony hosted an evening at the Norfolk Zoo and played many children's classics such as "Peter and the Wolf." We went with the Minters: Melissa (we went to grad school together, but became friends through Sharon, Clay her hubby, Charlie 28 months old and Neil, 11 months) Our admission was free because we are members of the zoo and we enjoyed free food, music and pretty cheap beer:) Charlie and Ella danced up a storm!

Beach Time

Clean-up

I was in the other room and came into the playroom to Ella singing to herself and cleaning up on her own:) The rest of these are just short clips of various.

Who took these pictures?

I know these pictures have nothing to do with Ella's blog... or do they? Pretty decent shots of the cat, but that side of the kitchen is not straight at all! Ella does like to carry around the camera saying cheese.....so who knows?
Maybe she was trying to tell me something about the cat. Ally is our cat that Ella loves to chase. She also likes to pick her up by her neck and carry her to me. She says, "Here you go mommy," and I am all, "ok, but I did not ask for or want the cat."
As bipolar as Ally is she as been great with Ella. When Ella is carrying her by her neck she stays very still. This is because she is being good or really she can't breathe. Anyway, Ally is in her final days. She is 12 and has never really been nice to me, but I still love her and I know Ella does as well. She is a part of our family and will be missed.

Messy, squirmy 2 year old!

Happy 2nd Birthday Ella!

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In the News...

I have only seen this online, but mom says it's a pretty big picture in the paper there. As everyone knows we DO NOT live Winchester, but the guy only asked the grandma's where they were from.

http://www.winchesterstar.com/showarticle_new.php?sID=9&foldername=20080802&file=wild_article.html

Aloha

We are having a Luau for Ella's birthday. Here is the pic that is on her invitation-
Here are a gazillion more we took..

Daddy's Girl

These pics do not capture how cute Ella and her daddy were at the beach last weekend. We drove up to our beach on the bay not even a mile away. It is so nice there-so close to home, the beach is big, it is not crowded and there is just a small dune to walk over to get there. There are not really any words that can express the love these two have. They are amazing to watch together.