Happy Birthday!

Monday...our 4-8 inches only ended up between 2-3 inches of messy freezing rain, that turned to sleet, that turned to snow. I ended up being home on Monday...not due to the weather....but Ella's sitter had two sick boys (her own kids) - they had the stomach bug that's been going around...so she very well couldn't watch kids with her own two sick! Worked out just fine...so Ella and I spent the day together at home.

She is in a singing mood these days....

I worked with her some on Monday with "activities." I had looked through a few preschool work books at Target a few weeks ago....to get an idea of things they are teaching that age range...so I made up my own activities. One thing I did was draw two big dots and had her connect the two dots with a straight line. I also made a maze and put one dot at the beginning and one at the end....and I had her draw a line connecting the two dots without going outside of the maze....she did really well! I talked to her about coloring inside of the lines (she's working on that one! She gets a little crazy when coloring and likes to go fast). We did ABC activities....and worked on counting....and my favorite one...we colored a picture together and I said....let's put your name on it...and she said, "ok!" So I went to go take her hand so we could do it together...and she said, "no I do it by myself." And here is Ella's name (without ANY help!)

She completely did that on her own....not bad for not even 3 yet!

That's been our last couple of days...Ella is still awake (an hour after she went to bed)....she just called to me....I went in her room and she was sitting up in bed holding her ears...saying, "what is that??" And she's right...it was loud! It was a loud airplane going by....she is so scared of loud noises...I don't know what triggered that....but she is sensitive to things being loud!

I was going to make taco's tonight...and Ella said..."banana tacos? I like banana tacos." Sure...why not. It's a big tortilla shell with peanut butter, a sliced up banana and a few chocolate chips....she ate it right up....and Josh had a small piece of it (with his chicken marsala)....and he was looking around for more "banana tacos"....guess they liked it! :) Tomorrow night will be real tacos!