Recently, Ella has started asking a lot of questions about where I go each day. She talks about how I "work" while she's at school. She knows the name of the company I work for and where it's located. She knows it's called an office. Anytime we are driving she'll point to random buildings and ask, "Is that your office?" On Saturday, I had to work a few hours despite the fact that there was a VERY large music festival on all sides of my office building. Since I wasn't planning on being there all day, I knew it was a good opportunity to show Ella where I worked. We packed a picnic lunch, colors and coloring books and off we went. She was fascinated by the size of the buildings. I'm only on the seventh floor, but that must seem pretty high to a little girl. She was nervous about sitting ...
sew sweet.
This week she became a crafter. Officially. Gran taught her how to sew buttons. Granted, she only sewed one loop through each button, she successfully attached seven buttons. Boy, was she "croud". Crowd: Ella's way of saying "proud." We absolutely do NOT correct these misspeaks. They are our favorite. ...
Happy Day
My goal this summer has been to leave work on time, drive straight to Gran's and spend some time outside with her and Ella. It's almost July and that goal hasn't come to fruition too many times. With Josh out of town a lot, it feels like I spend most of my time during the week working in the yard, folding laundry, vacuuming the floors, bathing babies and disciplining dogs. Since there are only a few short weeks of summer left to be had, I'm going to try and be more purposeful about the time we spend together during the week. In honor of Father's Day, we persuaded SD to stay an extra night this weekend and he didn't head back to work until this morning. Since K & Cory were at the beach and missed our impromptu celebration Sunday afternoon, we decided to coordinate a little shindig at ...
Tooth Fairy
Did I tell you that Ella thinks the tooth fairy came to visit? We had to explain the process of losing baby teeth and getting bigger ones because Molly lost a tooth and Ella was very distraught. One night last week, Ella pulled her cheek aside and said, "Look at my tooth Mom!" I looked at it and smiled and she finished with, "I lost it and the tooth fairy brought me a quarter!" ...
Sweet Daddy
We had a wonderful day celebrating our Sweet Daddy. Any day we get to spend with him start to finish is a good one. Here is the photo recap. I'm guessing you can figure out what we did! ...
Like Mother, Like Daughter
And I mean that in more than one way. I've been struggling with what to do for our grand-daddies this week for Father's Day. We don't really spend money on those kinds of holidays, but it isn't as easy to create a quick craft as it was for Mother's Day. My brilliance kicked in on the drive home this afternoon and I decided we would bake yummy chocolate chip cookies and package them up for all of the men in our life. I got to Gran's to pick El up and you know what she said? "Me and Gran made cookies for Father's Day!" See what I mean? Like mother, like daughter. I sure hope Poppy likes cookies, 'cause he's getting another batch. Here's what we were up to... Finding the perfect recipe, Eating chocolate chips, Mixing it up, Being a helper, And scooping it ...
Work in Progress
So, it's almost Friday and we're celebrating with Show Us Where You Live at Kelly's. I debated on whether or not to participate this week because (a) we don't have a playroom/bonus room other than the craft room, which I shared a few weeks ago and (b) because my laundry room is a scary, scary place. BUT, in the spirit of transparency, I'm going to share and hope that you don't laugh too hard. Our laundry room is about 13 square feet 13 x 13, so it has lots of space. The problem is that it totally lacks in style. It has three doors - one onto the back porch, one into the dining room and one into our bedroom. Not only does it function as a laundry room and a place for the dog to hang out while we're at work, but it functions as our walk-in closet since we don't have even a shelf in our ...
Jesus
Sunday morning we were sitting in the sanctuary before church and were talking about the people coming in. Ella asked about someone that she didn't recognize and said, "Why are they at our church?" I told her that they came to church because they loved Jesus, just like us. She responded with a typical question, "Where is Jesus?" As usual, I explained that he was in our hearts AND in heaven. She looked at me with a very serious face and said with much concern, "Did he die?" ...