Bubbles, Bubbles, and more Bubbles!

So I think out of 7 nights - 6 of them we have gone outside to play with BUBBLES!!! Ella really likes her "bubble blower!"

 

And Ella and I snuggling...I fell asleep on the couch on Saturday afternoon....Ella woke up from her nap and Josh brought her into the living room and she crawled right up on the couch with me to go "na-night" too.

Our week was again a normal week. Saturday - I went and got my hair cut. Ella kept saying she wanted to get her hair cut too...but I told her not yet! I'm not ready to cut her hair! We then went to cook-out for lunch as Josh was crying that there wasn't any food at home (I was way overdue for a trip to the store!) - and surprisingly...Ella can eat a corn dog like no other! Not my kind of thing....but she loves it...and ehhh once in a while it's ok. At least she's eating! Then in the afternoon we headed over to one of Josh's co-workers house for dinner. They have 3 dogs. And Ella loves dog. They have a chihuahua, named Lucky...but they called him "grumpy" because he was being kind of grumpy! So Ella called him grumpy for the rest of the night! Another dog - that was I don't really know what...about 30 pounds...a smaller dog...named Reese who wanted to lick you to pieces...and another dog that was about 100 pounds named, Max. Well Ella really hasn't been around a big dog. Of course she wanted to be friends with him as she loves animals...but I made her be friends with him from a distance! It was really funny - she kept calling him, "Bear" - I think she thought it was a bear as she hasn't been around that big of a dog. And we have a book that has a bear in it...that really did look like that dog! Ella had a great time - she really opened up and made friends with everyone. 

Ella has really been being a good eater - hopefully I'm not jinxing it by typing that! But she has been great about eating everything that we have given her over the last week. Which I'm thankful for! 

Ella helped me clean today. She always says, "I do it!" And wants to take over! 

Time to go fold laundry!

HOT!

So a heatwave has hit....and I am reminded again how thankful I am for central air! :)

It's been a fairly normal week - a regular work week for both Josh and I. Which means it was another week at Beth's house for Ella. Ella can't quite say the "th" sound...so every morning she says, "Beff's House." It's cute! And there is a little boy named Ethan that goes there....and it's, "Effan." Some names are easier than others!

I bought fruit today and make a big fruit salad. I honestly don't think I have bought fruit since Ella has been born...well except for bananas and apples. I don't really like fruit. I'll eat every vegetable that there is...but just not a fruit person. Well of course I want to set a good example for Ella...so I thought, I better start buying some fruit besides bananas for Ella! (She does eat all natural applesauce as well). So tonight we had fruit salad. Well it was just cantaloupe, strawberries, and red grapes. I cut all of it up and put some on her plate. The grapes were the biggest hit. Cantaloupe she chewed and then spit out and said, "yucky." And she did eat the strawberries. So it was a good start! I did eat the cantaloupe and red grapes...and just couldn't eat the strawberries...thankfully Josh likes most fruit and he ate all of it! Josh made "black and blue" burgers for the grill. Hamburgers with blue cheese and black pepper. They were great! It was honestly our first time cooking out this summer...isn't that awful. Normally, Josh is always working on homework that I make dinner and he just comes to the table when it's ready. But we branched out tonight! :)

Well...Ella has been asking for bubbles since last weekend. Since Grandpa and Gigi got her a really cool bubble toy. It was a few days before I took her outside...because it was sooo hot! However, Wednesday night I think it was...the sun wasn't out so it wasn't awful...still about 85 but at least the sun wasn't beating down. So all 5 of us headed out....(Bella and Brinly too!)

It was lots of fun! Ella did chase the dogs some with the bubble blower...they weren't thrilled about that!

Yesterday...on just about the hottest day ever....Ella and I went to the zoo. I know...crazy. However, when we made plans to go we didn't know it was going to be that hot!! I went with a friend and her girls. I brought the stroller thinking that Ella wasn't going to want to walk....but I was wrong...she wanted to walk and walked just about the entire zoo! I couldn't believe it! We went through lots of water and sunscreen. I'm not sure the last time I was that sweaty...eeewwww. I came home and took a shower! :) And after Ella's nap...she got a bath! They had a 2 week old baby piglet...now I'm not sure if I have ever said that a pig was cute...but this thing was ADORABLE! It was actually a little smaller than Bella...and they had it in this little grassy shaded area where it was just strolling around. Ella and I got to pet it.

Saturday night we went to dinner with some friends and Ella did great...I was a little nervous about taking her to a restaurant. But I brought her coloring book and a few crayons...and she was pretty happy! Plus I did let her get french fries with her meal...of course she was happy! Afterwards we went over to a park and walked down to a big pond....and Ella got to throw a few stones in....life was good!

Ella and I did a little posing for the camera this morning...(she loves the camera like her mom!)

And another week starts....!

Middle of July

Just about the middle of July...Summer sure is going by fast!

Today Ella and I had a busy day! It started out getting up and getting ready for church...

I gave Ella 2 options for which dress to wear....she very eagerly chose the orange one! With the fun pockets!

I had nursery today at church. It was my first time serving in the 2 year old room...it was a little overwhelming! Let's just say that Ella was by far the quietest and just about the most well-behaved child in there....ahhhh! I do think she's also the youngest. I was tired after that! "No don't do that!" "Please, say you're sorry for pushing!" Etc, etc! :)

So after church...Ella and I went to the lake. Josh was in another shooting competition early this afternoon...and then he had to work 3pm-11pm tonight. We had lunch with Grandpa and Gigi. Then Grandpa brought out some cool bubbles to play with (by the way - Josh says 'thanks!') - which the extra got sent home with us. After bubbles, we went to the pool for an hour. Ella kept asking me to wash her hands...they were all shriveled up from being in the water and she didn't like it! Ella made a new friend at the pool...a little 3 year old boy named Morgan who brought some toys over to play with. After the pool...we hit up Sweet Frog for some ice cream....and by then it was 4:30 and I had a very sleepy little girl....so we headed home where she fell asleep on the way home. Since Ella wasn't going to see Josh tonight we quickly swung into his office to say hi for a few minutes and then headed home. Dinner, Bath, and Bed!

Last night we went to a "Gender Reveal" party. Our friends are having a baby and they just found out what they were having...so they had a party to tell all their family and friends at one time. And the way they told everyone was by handing out cans of silly string to each person and we all sprayed it at the same time....and it was PINK! Very exciting! Although Ella really didn't like the silly string and was actually quite scared of it!

So Ella really likes broccoli...we had that a few times this week and she kept taking it off my plate after she finished hers! She was a big fan of that!

Ella and I cleaned out her toybox...

This way we could pass on some of the "baby" toys to our friends' new baby! :)

Well that was our weekend!

July 4th has come and gone!

Last Friday night....I had a girls night! I don't do that often...and yes by 9pm I was yawning :) I did however make it til 11pm! We had a fun night catching up and having dinner (and chocolate cake for dessert!)

Josh spent the majority of his weekend working on homework...soon it will be over! There is a light at the end of the tunnel...mid-August!

It was just another normal week for us. Actually Josh had Tuesday and Wednesday off...not due to July 4th however...it was time he took off to finish school work as the end of the semester is today.

July 4th - it rained almost all day! Surprise Surprise! However the sun did come out in the afternoon and we went over to some friends house last night....where we had a BBQ and did some fireworks....

Ella liked the sparklers...we took turns helping her hold them....we did a few bigger fireworks too...she said those were, "noisy fireworks."

We bought Ella a booster seat and her very own Minnie Mouse plate with matching silverware...so she now sits with us at the table for all her meals instead of her high-chair. She thinks she is hot stuff!

I made Ella pizza last week (this was before I bought her a plate/booster seat) and I was eating a salad...well Ella kept pulling all the veggies out of my salad and eating those instead!

 

Ella's little friend at the sitter's broke her arm last week (not at the sitters - but at her house over the weekend) - poor little thing...she's about Ella's size...a few months older...and has a big bright pink cast on her arm. Ella was excited to tell Josh about it!

 

Ella LOVES to color...can ya tell?? This is her art gallery! That we clean up every night...but she colors a little bit on each page and then puts her picture on the floor to "save it" and moves on to the next one. She loves for Josh or I to draw stars or balloons and then she wants to color them in.

Josh is going shooting tomorrow and is in another competition on Sunday. I'm glad he's getting a little downtime in...instead of all the homework he's been doing!