February In Photos

It's hard keeping up with two blogs so if you want to stay currrent with Ella's photos, head over to my photography blog.  As usual, it's most up to date....

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We took a drive out to the Hill Country one Saturday afternoon and found an RV park with some abandoned building...

We love to have 'coffee' at Starabucks.  I get my caffeine fix and Ella gets her 'coffee'... the kids hot chocolate.  She's totally my girl... she loves to chit chat.... here she's telling me all about her day at school....

Valentine's Day, our gift to her.  And going through all her loot from school...

Another afternoon on the Riverwalk with her best friend, Mia...

Her ballet costume for the recital came in.  They are dancing a ballet number to Cinderella's "Every Girl Can Be A Princess".  Here she is with her friend, Ellen....

If you didn't know, she's a total fashionista....

We went to Costco and I found this giant bubble orb.  It's so ridiculous and so cheap, I had to buy it for her.  She waited so patiently with Ali while Ron blew it up.  She loves it... I fear she might break her neck....  her and Ron had so much fun though.

I'm sorry.... did I say patiently????

I had the flu the last week in February and Ella was a good little "mommy", letting me rest while she watched movies.  She even said she'd be the mommy and take care of me.   We watched movies in the living room on a blow up bed and had a "sleep over"...

Her favorite movie is "Sound of Music" and she sings and dances throughout it.  If given the chance, she'd watch it over and over and over....

 

One afternoon at the park with friends....

An afternoon in the backyard on the swingset...

Last Week in Photos

We spent a day downtown on the riverwalk...

Decorated for Valentine's Day

Ella had a rodeo at her school.  All the kids brought a stuffed animal and each got a ribbon for the "best in show"...

On Wednesday, her preschool friend, Alexia came over for the afternoon and the girls played for hours..

One thing hasn't changed... Ella still loves to read all her books...

On Friday, we went to the San Antonio Rodeo carnival with some friends from ballet...

The petting zoo at the rodeo even had deer... very friendly deer :)

Riding a plastic horse

Playing with a hairpeice from Korea I found...

First Tooth Lost!

Today we headed to the San Antonio Rodeo for dollar days at the Carnival.  We had just walked through the gates when Ella spit her tooth out!  She was a little shocked that her loose tooth had finally come out.  Shocked that it didn't even hurt.

Tonight the toothfairy will come and she was so hyped up on sugar from the carnival and the excitement of the special visitor, it took her a while to fall asleep.  She hoped the tooth fairy brings her a present but I told her that I think she only deals with money.  Then she asked, "Uh, Mommy?  Will she look in my mouth?"  

I have it on good authority that the tooth fairy will be leaving her a special note and a quarter.  Plus 4 one dollar bills, one for every year.  I think she even leaves behind fairy dust. :)

SIngle Ladies

Yesterday, being stuck inside because of the cold weather, Ella played most of the afternoon in her room.  Here she is dancing to Single Ladies by Beyonce.  She even put a ring on it :)  And then of course it's conversations on her Cinderella cellphone.

SNOW!!!!

It's ridiculous how cold it's been this week.  I had to brave the freeze on Wednesday and make sure the exposed pipes were insulated.  Of course, I broke off the frozen hose by accident (only where the plastic meets the metal end so the spigot is fine).  We've had our faucets dripping and the heat has been on pretty steadily.  22F, 23F, 26F (-3C to -5C)  degrees with windchill in the low low teens(-11C).  This is not the San Antonio weather we were told about!

All week the weather forcasters have been predicting snow.  It snowed here once in 2004 but barely a dusting - much like today - and then back in 1985.  Needless to say, everyone was worked up.  The ice that came along with this snow had the city shut down this morning.  Schools closed and businesses opened at noon.  Really, in comparison to real winter, this is a bit ridiculous.  But I know someone who thoroughly enjoyed her 5 minutes of snow!...

Last Week in January

January flew by!  The last weekend was gorgeous and in the 70's.  And now, we're starting to thaw out of a deep freeze we've been in since Tuesday.

Here's Ella and Mia playing dressup:

Playing in the gorgeous sunshine last weekend:

Playing her Leap Frog games on my computer...

Ballet

We're still going to ballet every week and the girls are getting more co-ordinated, more confident, more balanced and more ballerina-like every week.  We look forward to Tuesdays, we both get to hang out and catch up with friends....

Star Student

Ella is star student this week.  Each kid in her class is choosen for a week of star treatment.  They have to take a collage to school telling all about themselves and fill out a questionaire.   The poster collage goes on the board and the kids get to learn about each other.  
Ella was so excited it was finally her turn (they went in alphabetical order).  We put her collage together this weekend.  She picked out the pictures she wanted and the buttons.  She loved the stickers!   Here's the finished product:

 Here are some pictures of her before school on Monday...

When I picked her up after school, I asked her what was her favorite part of showing the class her collage.  She said she loved to show them Uncle Joey throwing her up in the air. :)
For more pictures from the collage go to my photography blog: INSPIRE ME PHOTOGRAPHY