Electric kiddo
Somehow or another, another year has slipped by and Ella is almost ready to celebrate her sixth birthday with the kind of glee that only an ‘old 5′ year old can. She’s a beautiful force of nature, a hurricane of hilarity and insight. The kind of spirit that takes your ...
A 5th birthday with Spiderman (+ Ella)
Every year with Ella gets better and better. Her 5th birthday this year was very low key – especially as her first day of kindergarten started the very next day. We ate birthday brunch at Radical Eats, played like crazy people and opened gifts with cake before hitting the sack early ...
First day of kindergarten
We’ve graduated to a new neighborhood with a great (public = no massive tuition!!!, Vanguard program) school within a 30 second drive – but unfortunately we found ourselves one street away from the appropriate zoning. Seriously, one street. After an initial application, testing, interview and lottery process (WHEW)- we got ...
Ella the Aviatrix
Oh the joy of flight. A thrill that Ella got to experience for the very first time (OH EM GEEEE!!) on our fantastic trip to Pittsburgh last weekend. The formula for Ella’s first airplane flight went thusly: 1 set of pilot wings from the nice lady who checked our bags ...
The most fun you can have in a bathing suit
1. En vogue, 2. Goofy #2, 3. Goofy #3, 4. Goofy #1
Ella’s summer 2010 so far…
The happyfamily has been uber-busy this summer. Lots of big and wonderful changes all while Ella continues to grow and grow and grow. It’s amazing what an intelligent little quirky conversationalist Ella has become. She catches mispronunciations, new words in conversations and anything else that comes her way. Absolutely amazing. ...
Swing swing swing
Ella has taken to swinging (finally) for the first time in her short life. No more shrieks of panic and glaring looks. Phew
The wolf pack heads to Great Wolf Lodge
We spent last weekend at Great Wolf Lodge, an indoor water park in the lovely Grapevine, TX. The lodge’s PR team invited us out to check out their digs – which was pretty swell as we certainly didn’t have this on our weekend adventure list as of yet. Ella had ...
E-L-L-A
She’s writing her name now. And we couldn’t be more proud