Part of what I love about the girls' names is that they were both popular 100 years ago and many people with those names are now great-grandmas. Both names evoke a vision for me of sweet old ladies rocking away together on a porch. I pray Ella and Sadie will live meaningful lives full of love and will be enjoying each other on a front porch somewhere many years from now.

Monday, September 1, 2008

Cows and Chips

We had a great day trip on Saturday to a Dairy Farm and then explored downtown Frederick since we were out that way. We had a great time and the only problem was Ella eating stickers in the car on the way there and throwing up on her shirt. Who knows what possessed her to eat stickers (we thought she'd outgrown such things) but I think hurling turned her off to ever doing it again. Enjoy the pics!



We got there just in time to feed the baby cows which was our main goal. Those cows were HUNGRY in a big way and kinda aggressive! We had fun though :-)

The cows were either very affectionate or desperate to lick milk off of anything they could, including each others' faces.

Ella seems to be totally cured of her fear of touching animals! I'm SO glad!

After the farm we walked around in downtown Frederick which was quaint and fun at the same time. All three of us had a blast in a specialty toy store we found and Ella had her first encounter with a jack-in-the-box which cracked us up!

We had dinner outside at a yummy Mexican restaurant and Ella got very intense about her chips and I had to get out the camera and take a video :-)

After dinner we walked around this beautiful riverwalk area at sunset and Ella plopped herself down and stared contemplatively at this fountain for a long time. I wonder what you contemplate when you're 2?

I didn't realize Chris took this picture of me pretending to be sad because Ella wouldn't come sit with me but it's so funny!

She gave in and, as you can see, I'm much happier :-) It was a great Saturday!
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 2, 2008 at 7:03 AM

    How sweet!. Do you remember the goats in Denmark who took Marissa's orange jacket? I will pull out the picture.

    Ella is a Drama Princess....Love it.

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  2. amyBSeptember 2, 2008 at 8:59 AM

    SUCH A WEIRD DREAM LAST NIGHT: We (you, me, Ella and Chris!??!?) were on a boat, and I tripped and was going over board. Chris tried to save me, and did...but he went over board. We finally found him, and he was fine. Me and Ella went swimming in the ocean and played with a gray kitty.

    So. strange. Haha!

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  3. amy@flexibledreamsSeptember 2, 2008 at 11:56 AM

    I'm glad you put in a caption because what that picture says to me is, "When I get pregnant I'm going to be THIS BIG and I won't be happy about it."

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  4. Jen @ Rolling Through LooneyvilleSeptember 2, 2008 at 12:26 PM

    These are GREAT PICTURES! I'm glad you guys liked feeding the cows. Weren't they INSANE?

    I love the empty arms pic. You crack me up

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