This and that sums up our past week and a half since returning from the beach. Ella is a lucky girl and got an early birthday present from her best buddies, Kayla, Allie, Addie and Wesley. They got her this awesome kitchen and picnic table complete with it's own umbrella. As soon as Mike set it up, Ella has been obsessed. Playing with it all the time and always cooking us something new. It came with lots of utensils and food so our little chef has everything she needs. We may move this out to the deck but since it has been so hot lately, we have been keeping it inside for now.
(Shirts optional but bows required at Ella's kitchen!)
Unfortunately last week Ella came down with this nasty summer virus going around. She came down with a fever Tuesday afternoon that lasted 3 long days and a couple sleepless nights. But no other symptoms besides high fever and just feeling very tired and not eating. You know she is sick when all she wants to do is sit on the couch and watch movies and not eat a thing. She did have some moments of feeling better but mainly we just hung out at home and played for 3 days. And we found lots of new fun toys, like Daddy's sunglasses!
By Friday afternoon, her fever finally broke and she got some of her energy back and was back more to her old self and actually wanted to go outside and play. (And not soon enough, if I watched another Mickey Mouse show or watched Tangled again, I might have gone insane!) And by playing, it means carrying around Mom's purse and act like she is going shopping. I think we may be in lots of trouble in the future.
It was a good thing she started feeling better because she had some big visitors come visit us this weekend, Uncle Court, Jennifer (or Fer-Fer as Ella's says) and Emma doggie. Ella LOVES Fer-Fer and Emma but is not too sure about her godfather! On Saturday, she wore the shirt that Uncle Court bought for her almost 2 years ago, her first Vineyard Vines polo and we were so excited it finally fit, we tried to get a picture of them together in their Vineyard Vines. But you can tell from Ella, she wasn't too keen on getting a picture.
Even though she thought he was a little scary (don't worry I did too growing up), she liked to tease Uncle Court. All last week before they were coming, we would say who is coming this weekend and she would say "fer-fer and court." But once he arrived, she refused to say his name. She would look right at him with a huge smile and say "fer-fer" and laugh. When he would leave the room or was out of ear shot, she would say his name to us but never in front of him! It became the running joke of the weekend. On Sunday, she came around a little more to Uncle Court and would actually sit next to him but still wouldn't say his name!
But again, it was nothing like her bond with Fer-Fer!!
And if Mommy gives her lots of tickles, she will even sort of cuddle and laugh with Uncle Court! Progress people progress.
I love when I capture a moment between these two. Ella was all about her Daddy this weekend. They got to hang out all Saturday morning and she wanted him all weekend.
When she was sick, all she wanted was Mommy all day and night but once she was better, she was all about her Daddy. It is huge for her to share her favorite juice box and check out that expression she has, too funny. Like, she is thinking "hmmm, hope he doesn't drink it all!"
We had a major breakthrough this weekend, the swing. Ella loved her infant swing, was in it all the time, would sleep for hours in it and then once she started sitting up and moving around, she wanted nothing to do with any type of a swing. We would try and swing every time we went to the park and she would scream and try and climb out so we just decided the swing wasn't her thing and that was fine. But on Sunday, she decided she wanted to try it again and we put her in thinking she would last 6 seconds but to our astonishment, she loved it! Kept saying "high high" for us to swing her higher.
She must have been in there for close to 20 minutes and loved every second of it. We had to drag her out of the swing so we could go home or she would have stayed all day.
On Monday, we went to another park that also has a splash ground and usually Ella runs right to the splash area to play but this time, she ran right to the swing! Kids are so funny, I guess they can change and surprise you all the time.
So, that was our week, a little of fever and hanging out at home and then a little bit of that like loving swings and running from scary Uncle Court!
(Shirts optional but bows required at Ella's kitchen!)
Unfortunately last week Ella came down with this nasty summer virus going around. She came down with a fever Tuesday afternoon that lasted 3 long days and a couple sleepless nights. But no other symptoms besides high fever and just feeling very tired and not eating. You know she is sick when all she wants to do is sit on the couch and watch movies and not eat a thing. She did have some moments of feeling better but mainly we just hung out at home and played for 3 days. And we found lots of new fun toys, like Daddy's sunglasses!
By Friday afternoon, her fever finally broke and she got some of her energy back and was back more to her old self and actually wanted to go outside and play. (And not soon enough, if I watched another Mickey Mouse show or watched Tangled again, I might have gone insane!) And by playing, it means carrying around Mom's purse and act like she is going shopping. I think we may be in lots of trouble in the future.
It was a good thing she started feeling better because she had some big visitors come visit us this weekend, Uncle Court, Jennifer (or Fer-Fer as Ella's says) and Emma doggie. Ella LOVES Fer-Fer and Emma but is not too sure about her godfather! On Saturday, she wore the shirt that Uncle Court bought for her almost 2 years ago, her first Vineyard Vines polo and we were so excited it finally fit, we tried to get a picture of them together in their Vineyard Vines. But you can tell from Ella, she wasn't too keen on getting a picture.
Even though she thought he was a little scary (don't worry I did too growing up), she liked to tease Uncle Court. All last week before they were coming, we would say who is coming this weekend and she would say "fer-fer and court." But once he arrived, she refused to say his name. She would look right at him with a huge smile and say "fer-fer" and laugh. When he would leave the room or was out of ear shot, she would say his name to us but never in front of him! It became the running joke of the weekend. On Sunday, she came around a little more to Uncle Court and would actually sit next to him but still wouldn't say his name!
But again, it was nothing like her bond with Fer-Fer!!
And if Mommy gives her lots of tickles, she will even sort of cuddle and laugh with Uncle Court! Progress people progress.
I love when I capture a moment between these two. Ella was all about her Daddy this weekend. They got to hang out all Saturday morning and she wanted him all weekend.
When she was sick, all she wanted was Mommy all day and night but once she was better, she was all about her Daddy. It is huge for her to share her favorite juice box and check out that expression she has, too funny. Like, she is thinking "hmmm, hope he doesn't drink it all!"
We had a major breakthrough this weekend, the swing. Ella loved her infant swing, was in it all the time, would sleep for hours in it and then once she started sitting up and moving around, she wanted nothing to do with any type of a swing. We would try and swing every time we went to the park and she would scream and try and climb out so we just decided the swing wasn't her thing and that was fine. But on Sunday, she decided she wanted to try it again and we put her in thinking she would last 6 seconds but to our astonishment, she loved it! Kept saying "high high" for us to swing her higher.
She must have been in there for close to 20 minutes and loved every second of it. We had to drag her out of the swing so we could go home or she would have stayed all day.
On Monday, we went to another park that also has a splash ground and usually Ella runs right to the splash area to play but this time, she ran right to the swing! Kids are so funny, I guess they can change and surprise you all the time.
So, that was our week, a little of fever and hanging out at home and then a little bit of that like loving swings and running from scary Uncle Court! 
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