11.9

My alarm went off at 7:45 and first thing I did was check Ella's monitor. Well the sound was off on it and she was awake. I wonder how long she was up. We don't have the thing that takes a picture a minute anymore. Dave needs to code it again. It took him less than a half hour the first time!

Running at 9 was canceled because of the rain. I spent a good portion of the morning coordinating with people about if we were going to cancel or what was going on.

I did Cize in the living room with Ella.   Then we went to the Dollar Tree. Then we went to lunch.

The Dollar Tree took about 20 minutes. Ella was a bugger to hold. She wanted to walk. But then she wanted to keep putting things in my bag. If she had her way, we would have bought about 6 different balls, a jump rope, a toy snake, an extension cord, and a few other things I can't remember. Oh she did put purse kleenex packs in the bag and I almost put them back then realized I often wish I had those so I kept them in the bag.

I ordered breakfast instead of lunch food.  It all took so long because there were delays between things. I also sat in the car at the Dollar Tree deciding to run or not.
Then I sat in our driveway waiting for Gio and Lily to be ready for lunch. I didn't want to go in the house just to leave again.

Ella was pretty good at lunch. She was loud a few times and almost threw silverware a few times.

After we got home we hung out a little. Poly even chilled on me purring while Ella was sitting across the room. But then Ella came over and wanted to hug Poly and she was gone.

We called my mom on a hangout. Before I knew it an hour had passed. How do hangouts take so much time and feel so short?

Ella played with her new alphabet letters.

She changed her clothes 7 times throughout the day. She doesn't like clothes then likes them then likes other things. She didn't change her outfit at all because the clothes needed to come off.

She finally napped around 3 PM. We started it entirely too late.

I made cards while she napped.  I also started dinner.  I had to wake Ella up to get Dave and try to time dinner. I really hate all that.

I made more cards after Ella went to sleep. I just couldn't help myself.

11.8

We went to Target in the morning. We got Panera and ate it before going in to Target.  Ella kept telling me she was "done" before we even left the dollar section.

Dave wanted to be home by 10 but it was more like 10:45. He watched the Steeler game (on delay so he didn't miss any).  I put away the groceries and then Ella and I did a google hangout with Marie and Clara.  Ella and Clara were so happy to see each other. They kept squealing with excitement.  We didn't stay on long because they had to get ready for church.

Ella would cheer during the football game when Dave was cheering. That was cute. But then when he was yelling and mad, she'd start crying.  It was so sad. She'd take Dave's emotions and just do them multiplied by 10  or maybe by 100.   She was also tired but kept wanting to do this or that.

Finally she napped.  I stamped the backs of cards of practically the entire nap. I was stamping the hand made by stamp on the back. I did do some organization.

After nap, we did a quick hangout with my parents.  Then we headed the the hardware store. While we were out we thought we should have dinner. We went to Pizza Studio.  Ella is getting better at restaurants. I think she likes food that she uses a fork or spoon on better than finger foods like sandwiches or pizza though.   We went to Safeway right after.

Ella rode in a car cart so she did better than when she has to just sit in the cart.

We got home so late, she hung out. We let her stay up too late. She was playing on her ipad. Dave set it up that youtube kids would stop working after 5 minutes.  He said it made him want to cry. She looked so sad once it stopped working. But then the tricky bugger she is just closed that app and opened another one that would work.

We watched Fruitvale Station after Ella went to sleep. I actually didn't fall asleep.  The movie was a bit sad. Dave actually wanted to go in and hug Ella so he did. She slept through it.

After the movie was over I opened my laptop and just ended up talking to Gio instead of doing anything productive.

 She put baby doll down to change her diaper.

11.7.15

Ella woke up at 7:45 and before I knew it, it was time to leave for Nyla's birthday party.  On the way there I was thinking about how Anya didn't have a party this year. I get there and look at my phone to try to find the evite email to see where the party is for sure since there was an email with a change. Well I see there was in fact an invitation for Anya's party, I had RSVPed yes, and it was at the same time as Nyla's.  Oh what fun.

I purposely left a little late to get to Nyla's because I didn't want to be first. We got there at 10:35 and we were still first. Nothing was set up either. Nyla didn't even have her skirt on.

We hung out there. Ella had some fun. She wanted to go swimming in the pool that was visible from the party area.  Then we headed to Anya's party.  I'd say we were at each one for about 1.5 hours.  Ella was quite tired by the end. She would cry over the littlest thing. I tried to get her home to go to sleep but she didn't sleep right away.  She fell asleep at 2:40.  We ended up waking her up near 7:30. And it was a lot of effort to wake her up.

I did stuff with cards while she napped. I also watched some TV and did nothing and relaxed. I was tired from the parties too.

We had some dinner, watched some TV, and hung out. Then it was time for Ella to go to sleep. She did not want to. Then she didn't end up falling asleep until 10:30.

I fell asleep shortly after that. We were watching a movie but of course I fell asleep during it.

Nyla's party

Anya's Party