A day in the life

Mike and I always say we want to come back in our next life as Ella, she has it good! (Although, I can't complain, I have it pretty good also!) So hopefully this will give you an idea of a "typical" day in the life of our sweet little girl.

Morning usually begins with a jog with Mommy in the stroller. It is getting hot, I mean H-O-T hot in Charlotte so we sometimes switch it up and go to the gym also. After our morning workout, we come home and have some yummy breakfast! Boy, does this little one love her food and usually likes wearing it all over her face also!

Then, it's up to the nursery for some play time. Now that she is a crawling machine, she usually does several laps around her room, of course finding everything most dangerous to play with instead of her many toys. After a busy morning, it's nap time. This is usually what I find when she wakes up from her nap, sitting and waiting in her crib for me. She is so happy after a good nap!

Her new favorite thing is the pool! On these hot afternoons, we break out the inflatable pool on the deck and splash around.

Some days we head off to the grocery store and oh what a good helper she is. When she is not trying to crawl out of the cart and pull out all the food in the back of the cart, she is usually admiring all the food she is going to eat very soon! I think her favorite place is Costco with all the free samples. Can't you just see her saying, "Oh my, look at all this yummy food!"

Following her afternoon nap, it is usually more playing while we wait for Daddy to come home and then dinner and then finally, one of her favorite things of the day, bath time! She never wants to get out and could play in there for hours with her rubber ducky and Splashy the penguin. It is funny to look back now because when we first switched her from the baby tub in the sink to the real bathtub, she would cry and scream and refuse to go in there and now we can't get her out!

So, it's rough life but someone has to live it. Of course, there are many more things I couldn't capture like music class, going to the gym with Mommy (and finally not screaming the entire time I leave her there), playing with all her friends in the neighborhood, going on walks with her doggie, "wrestling" with her doggie (Ella pulling all of Dakota's fur and climbing all over her and Dakota licking Ella in the face), the list goes on and on. One thing she isn't is dull. We are always on the go and loving every minute of it!