Christmas 2007

We had a great Christmas this year. We celebrated with my side of the family at my Aunt and Uncle's house on Christmas Eve. My Aunt is a great cook and we had appetizers and desserts that I confess I'm still fantasizing about...mini "burgers" made with steak, shrimp and cocktail sauce, smoked salmon canapes, egg salad with caviar (I've always hated egg salad but LOVED this) and the best fudge I've ever had. I've got to get the recipes. Anyway, lots of presents and fun and Ella was the star of the party. She really loves the party environment and is almost always really well behaved, even if it's hours past her bedtime (which it was).
Christmas morning Ella slept until we woke her up at 9:45am to go over to Nana and Grandpa's house. We celebrated with all of Chris' family until well into the afternoon and again, had a great time. It really was a blessed Christmas and we're so thankful for that!


Ella has been talking about Aunt Bobbi's house and the "big, big Christmas tree" almost every day since then

Ella saw the candles on this Christmas decoration and insisted that she needed to blow them out (and kept saying "Happy Birthday to you!") GG got a kick out of helping her blow each one out

Nana bought Ella this ADORABLE Christmas dress that fit her perfectly! She had so much fun passing out presents to everyone and was very good about not trying to open them all herself

Looking hardcore with her new guitar from Aunt Marissa

Mittens and Leaves

Every year Chris' family does an ornament exchange and everyone makes their own ornaments to share. This year we made little felt mittens and decorated them-Ella "helped" (meaning: colored her hands with a black sharpy while we worked intently on the craft. Oops.)





Ella also got in on the action of helping Chris rake leaves. She was so excited to get to play outside after being cooped up with being sick and all the cold weather. They had a blast!

Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!! Happy Birthday Jesus!!! We had a really great and really exhausting Christmas. Last night with my family and today with Chris' fam. A really positive time for everyone. Ella was in her prime-she thrives on being surrounded by people at parties and was SO cute in her little Christmas dress (thanks Nana) and saying "May-we kwis-mis evey-buddy." Haven't downloaded the pics yet so enjoy a recent random photobooth pic of my sister and me and enjoy your holiday :-)

Fweeking

I was reading Good Night, Gorilla to Ella the other night and on one page all of the animals go to sleep in the zoo keeper's bedroom. On the next page it's all black except for the zookeeper's wife's eyes when she realizes the animals are there. We've read this a bazillion times but this time, as soon as we turn to the page with the eyes....

Ella yells: Fweeking out! Fweeking out!
Me (thinking I didn't understand her): What?
Ella, louder : Fweeking out!!!
Me, giggling: Freaking out?
Ella: Yeah Mommy, lady is fweeking out!!

She kept saying it over and over and I was laughing so hard I almost fell off the chair. It's moments like that when I really wish I had a video camera running 24/7.

Virus transmission and where babies come from

Conversations with Ella...

Wed. morning I'd mentioned to Ella that Hannah was sick and not coming to music class, this conversation happened about 4pm on Thursday

Me (feeling her head and hearing her cough): Ella do you feel yucky?
Ella sadly: Hannah's Sick, now Ella's sick (shaking her head as if to say "what a shame")
Chris incredulously to me: Virus transmission is NOT innate knowledge. HOW DOES SHE KNOW THAT??
Beats me


This morning while Ella was looking at our friends' Jen, Shaun, and Lexi's Christmas picture I told her that Miss Jen has a new baby in her tummy and it's a little girl like her. I told her that later the baby will come out and we can play with her. This is the first time we've ever discussed this so I expected it would just go over her head. A little while later I told Chris about what I'd told Ella and he asked her what was in Miss Jen's tummy. Without missing a beat she enthusiastically said "My new friend!!"