Be Mine!

I had a VERY special Valentine this year. Ella was sure to give me lots of hugs and kisses on this special day, but lucky for me she does this everyday!

Is there anyone out there?

Sorry it has been soooo long. There are a lot of things going on in our lives that has me preoccupied. Hopefully things will turn around soon. So for those faithful followers here is a slide show of Ella over Christmas and some pictures from January.


My Montage 12/31/08

Hang in there...

I am SO behind with Ella's blog, but wanted to let the few of you that actually do check-in that pics will be up very soon! Also, I have a feeling I will be better about pictures because I got a new camera from mom & dad for Christmas!!!!!!!!

Whee

Ella loves for BT to push her around in her doll stroller (which is not intended for kid use).





Excuse the poor quality video, I am too lazy to get out the video camera and used our poor excuse for a camera.

Movie Star

Ella wanted to play with Play-Doh this afternoon. She plays with "doh" at her table in the sun room/playroom/where we eat room. The sun was really bright, so she said, "too bright mommy-need glasses." She forgot all about Play-Doh and instead posed for the camera.









On a side note- she is saying the funniest things now. Some examples: this morning she walked up to Frisco (our dog) and said, "Hey Frisco! What's going on Buddy?" When she sits on the potty to pee and nothing happens she says, "Its stuck!" When I am driving she is constantly saying, "be careful mommy!" Whenever I cough I get an "Are you okay mommy?" and a nice couple pats on the back! She says, "that's crazy!" and "that's really tricky!" There are a gazillion more that I need to write down. She has me laughing constantly!

TAGGED

1)Choose the 4th picture folder on my computer
2) Choose the 4th picture
3) Explain the picture
4) Tag 4 other people


Here's my picture:



I was tagged by Jenny

This is Ella 20.5 months old doing her favorite thing-reading books!
I tag: Angela, Megan, Janet, Deb

Fall Fun!

We have been busy doing so many fun things lately! Here is a bunch of pics made into a montage to catch you up!


Fall Fun 11/1/08

Chicken Wing Dance

Random pics from last week...

Ella pointing to the E in the alphabet garden at Botanicals.

This was the last day the water was on (October 15th) and it was a beautiful day with the temp in the 80's.




singing in bath


Playing dress-up

Check out those tonsils!

Bike Riding

Our neighbors gave us a hand-me down bike a couple months ago with training wheels for Ella. Since she was so interested in the big bikes at the Children's Festival yesterday we decided to get it out. She definitely likes daddy pushing her more so than pedaling, but that makes me feel safer anyhow. There is a bell she enjoyed ringing and she loved putting pine cones in the basket. Notice she is wearing her Redskins jersey (4 Sundays in a row now)!
The pic of the back of Ella is just to show how TALL I think she is!

Children's Festival

We enjoyed a beautiful morning at the Virginia Children's Festival which was at Town Point Park (waterside in Norfolk). It benefited St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Unfortunately, my camera had a big spot on it, so the pictures stink-but you get the idea. There were many fun activities and characters to see. We watched a performance of Charlotte's Web by the Hurrah Players, listened to stories read by Mother Goose, listened to lots of different performers sing, pet some farm animals, and played with ALL kinds of different toys throughout. Ella was scared of the big costumed animals at first, but by the end was going up and giving high-fives. There was a Gymboree tent that we visited and Ella got see one of her teachers. At one point Ella made a beeline towards the Barnes & Noble tent and I realized why when I saw Ms. Dawn from story time :) We ended the festivities with some ice cream and dancing!