Pudding Paint

Finger Painting with pudding today...

Beachin it

STephen, Ellie, and I took a quick trip to the beach last weekend and it was so nice to get away. We stayed with a friend that has a little boy that is two and a half and he and Ellie had a good time playing together. They were both so sweet with eachother. Several people asked if they were twins, haha. Ellie loved the beach and playing in the sand even though it was too cold to get in the water. We spent most of the day Saturday in the pool and hot tub and then went to eat on the beach that night. The restaurant had a really nice playground on the beach so after dinner we let Ellie play on the playground and in the sand. Stephen walked her to the ocean and showed her how to build a sand castle; well he tried anyways. She was mainly interested in knocking it over than anything else. Sunday was BeAUTIFUL so we went to the beach bright and early. When the birds ran us off (They weren't really messing with us but Ellie was not a huge fan of them so she said she was ready to go)we went to the pool for a couple hours, hit up the outlets, then drove home. So nice to get away.

Zoo Day

We went to the zoo last Friday with several of our friends and Ellie had so much fun. The weather was nice, semi cold, but beautiful. There is a new section of the zoo that is really pretty and Ellie had so much fun running around with her friends. We saw the usual, monkeys, giraffes, one elephant, zebras,etc...

"I want my Grandmomma"

Ellie has been missing her grandmomma a lot lately and it seems like she is always saying "I want my grandmomma". We have been telling her that Grandmomma was coming to visit soon and Ellie is expecting her to like, walk through the door. We were on the web cam with mom yesterday morning and I said "Grandmomma is coming to see you soon!". Well, Ellie got up, walked to the door, opened it, and said "Grandmomma's coming?!". I felt so bad! She really thinks she is like down the street or something. If you ask Ellie where gmomma lives she will tell you Africa but obviously, she doesn't really know where that is. She is just breaking my heart. She is a grandmomma's girl all the way and wants to see her so bad. On the way home, just a few minutes ago, she was really sleepy and just kept quietly crying and saying "I want my grandmomma" :-(. Poor baby.
Last Wednesday Ellie made a card for her grandmomma and grandaddy to send to Africa with a guy who was leaving the next morning. We traced Ellie's hands and feet and she put heart stickers all over the card. I put some pictures of Ellie from that morning making the card inside the card as a special surprise :-) She is such a sweet baby!

"Big girls, NOT NICE"

Ellie and I were at the park earlier this week and decided to go for a walk for a little while and then come back and play. Well, at this park there is big play equiptment and little play equiptment, obviously for bigger kids and little kids respectively. So, when we get back to the playground from our walk we sat down at the tables and noticed two girls, probably ten years old, throwing HUGE mud balls ALL OVER THE LITTLE EQUIPTMENT. Well, it was already COVERED in mud; I mean all over all the slides, handrails, stairs, tunnels, EVERYWHERE. All I can do is sit there and stare and shake my head. Ellie said "big girls my friends" and I said "no ma'am. They are NOT being nice and you are not their friend". Well after throwing a few mud balls I guess they grew weary of my staring and stopped. Well then they came right over to where we were and started doing cartwheels and what not in the grass next to us. I could not hold my tounge any longer. I said "Girls, what you did was NOT NICE. You threw mud ALL OVER the little kids playground so now where are the little kids like her (pointing to Ellie) going to play? That was not nice and all. You should not have done that". They didn't say a word to me. One whispered to the other and then they walked over and began attempting to clean up their mess. The funny part is that while they were cleaning Elie is saying very loudly, looking directly at them, "Big girls, NOT NICE!" over and over! HILARIOUS. I told her she was right and that it is not nice to throw mud on the playground. Obviously they couldn't get it all clean and just ran off to their Grandad who was sitting in his car, in plain sight of what was going on. UGH! We went back a couple days later and yes, the mud was still DRIED on the equiptment.

Spring time, are you here?

I am so confused and annoyed by this weather. One week it's warm the next it's cold. Well I'm over it and so is Ellie. She got used to going to the park everyday and then it turned cold and rainy for a week and all day every day last week she asked to go to the park or the lake. I took some pictures of her a few days ago and if I didn't know it was Ellie I would not have recognized her. She has gotten so big and just looks so grown up. She is always telling people that "she be 2 and have ninnie nouse party". She is very excited and so am I. I have been making the decorations and list after list for the past two months. I've finished the banner and am almost done with the minnie/mickey mouse ears. Her party is going to be so cute! I'll post pictures after, which by the way is a month away :). Next thing I'll be working on is the pinata!

I love you

I put Ellie down for her nap and I could hear her talking on the monitor. After about 15 minutes or so I heard her say "Momma, I drop my paci" so I went downstairs, gave her her paci, and rocked her while singing "rock a bye baby". She fell asleep so I put her in her crib. When I went to lay her down she woke up just a little bit and said "I luh you". Melt my heart, sweet baby girl!

Doing Makeup

Ellie likes to watch me get ready in the morning and last Saturday she decided to do her own makeup while we were waiting on Aunt Aly to go shopping. It was so cute and thought I'd share a few pictures. Side note, I did "fix" her makeup before we went out :)

She liked what she saw

Kissy face

Sweet girl loved her makeup

All ready to go :-)

Spring is coming

The spring weather is here and we are loving it. We are staying outside pretty much all day every day; breakfast at our lake, picnic at the park, dinner outside with friends :-) Here are a few pics from the last couple of weeks.

Valentines Play group with the minnie mouse daddy got her

Dinner on the porch with sweet Camden

Playing in the tunnel together