Almost Normal

Ella is doing fine, she hasn't been sick since we left the hospital and we didn't have to give her any more medicine. We all went to bed really early last night and had an excellent night's sleep.

Funny, unrelated note about boys versus girls. Ella, as I have said many times is very sweet. She loves giving kisses and hugs and will make Ron and I kiss each time we kiss her when she's getting ready for bed. She gives Eskimo kisses, butterfly kisses, and blows kisses. She kisses and hugs all her toys, her blanket, her bike... she carries around her baby dolls and Barbie dolls and gives them bottles, wraps them in blankets, puts them to bed... the list goes on. She is very sweet to her friends and to ours, always running up to my girlfriends to give them a big hug. Did I mention I have a very adorable, sweet little girl??

I have been watching Sebastian for week and he is a very polite and well-behaved 10-year-old... but is it a gene boys are born with??? So far he's wrestled Ella's Elmo chair, pile-drived her dolls, "smashed" Elmo into the carpet repeating "die, Elmo, die.. aggghhhh (dying sounds)", and held a boxing/death match with her stuffed animals. Now granted, we don't have any "boy" toys in the house and he's surrounded by girlie dolls and pink stuffed animals, but really, "die, Elmo, die"??? Ella of course, was horrified, then intrigued, and then thought the whole thing was hilarious. I put an end to it and explained that while, yes, he does have brothers, and he is used to video games, Ella is a little girl who is sweet and we want her to stay that way. He is a great kid and has headed my warnings: if he can't stop torturing Ella's things, he's not to play with them at all:) There's to be no death or destruction in the house... that, I'm sure, will come later because didn't we all rip off Barbie's head at some point??? LOL