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.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Shoes, Hair, and a Hot Dog Diva

Random pics of recent happenings...

(Marissa and Bobby)
Last weekend my grandmother took my Aunt Bobby, Marissa, and me shopping-it was a lot of fun. Marissa got these hot, green shoes! (I got nothing...I learned that I'm too cheap for Nordstrom even if it isn't my money).

(Marissa and GG)
We had a belated passover seder at my parents house on Sunday and Marissa got a new hair-do! It took eight hours and she won't say how much she paid but it looks great :-)

Ella decided she was "sweepy" during the passover dinner and needed to nap.

We had a Memorial day BBQ yesterday-lots of friends and lots of fun!

My child, who rarely eats, stunned us all by grabbing a hot dog off the table by herself and eating the whole thing like an ear of corn. Weird. Later at the party I came in from outside and found Ella standing on top of an ottoman in the living room singing every song she knows for a room full of adults who were totally into it and promised me she has a career in show business. Video of that to come. With all of Ella's antics, how could I not have a blog to record them all? The stories never cease!

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Washing Strawberries

Ella is still a great helper in the kitchen!

Resemblance...

Now that her hair is longer my kid totally looks like Abby Cadabby (from Sesame Street) when she has two pig tails...

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Happy Half Birthday!

Thursday was Ella's half birthday! She enjoyed celebrating so much that we re-lit the candle and sang happy birthday 3 or 4 times. Parties (even if it's just with mom and dad) are one of Ella's favorite things!


Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Comments

To all of you lovely people who have been commenting on my blog-Thank you! I had no idea some of you were even reading it! For some reason it stopped sending me email when I get comments so I had no idea until yesterday when my sister-in-law asked if I'd read her comment..."uh no, no one ever comments on my blog." Then I got home and looked-oh wait-they do! I really appreciate the comments so keep 'em coming (and I'll try to return the favor!) and sorry I haven't acknowledged any of them 'til now :-)