I have a couple of wicker baskets that sit on a bookshelf in the living room to keep Ella's toys in. She loves to empty them out and throughout the day the house is littered with her toys. She's really good at cleaning up when we say "Let's clean up" before it's time for her to go to bed... with a lot of help from us, she'll gather her toys and throw them in the basket, mostly missing it but it's the thought that counts. This morning as I was cleaning up our breakfast, I heard silence aka TROUBLE! Here's how I found Ella. How she got sitting in the basket, I'll never know and I'm not sure you can see in the photo but the baskets are really quite small...
My favorite time of the day is first thing in the morning with Ella. I usually bring her back to bed with me and let her play around; she loves the pillows and all the fluffy blankets and will throw herself around on them. She's so happy in the morning... she definitely doesn't get that from me! But my mornings are always bright now that I get to wake up with her happy little self.
Now that the backyard is all finished and there isn't any dirt or plants laying around, I set up Ella's baby pool. She not only loved being naked in the sunshine, but LOVED LOVED LOVED that she could get in and out of the pool at her own leisure. Ahhhh! the freedom of being a baby...sigh.
Today we headed to the east side of the island and found a new beach. Kailua is rated as one of the best beaches in the world and it is beautiful! The sand is white powder and you can see sand bars out in the ocean. Lots of Kayakers and paddle boards. It started to shower a bit so we headed into Kailua town for get something to eat but the day turned out gorgeous.
Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day...We've had a lot of fun this long weekend! It was good to hang out with you and Eric.
Ella loves to climb up on the window sill and talk. It's almost as if she thinks she has her own podium to decree from....
Tonight we had a BBQ at our house and had our neighbors and a lot of Ron's co-workers at our place. It was so much fun! Ron told me yesterday at lunch he'd invited everyone so I headed to the grocery store and then finished off my backyard gardening. What a great motivation to get everything planted. It's Memorial Day weekend and Ron and most of the people he works with have a 4-day weekend. NICE!
Our friends came with their little boy, Lucas, and Ella was happy to have a playmate. We also got to know a couple of our neighbors who, until now, we've just known in passing on the street. It was such a great night of Margaritas, beer and BBQ. Of course we had too much food, too much drink and too much fun. Ron's sound asleep to rest up for a golf game in the morning, and I'm up on a margarita high. Oh well, at least the house is clean and I can catch up on Oprah. These are pictures of Ella from yesterday. We love this sundress from Nana Diane!
Thanks for all the birthday wishes. No, Christin - I can't believe we're 32 and yes, Stephanie, I'm 29 again! We had a great weekend just hanging out and relaxing. We were going to hit the beach but both Ron and Ella fell asleep for the majority of the afternoon on Sunday so I started a quilt. We'll see how that goes.
Ella and I spent some time in the garden yesterday. She's really is like a dog... drinking out of the hose, sitting on the floor and "begging" for food and her latest thing is growling. When she finds something amusing, she makes this growly sound before she starts laughing. Where does she learn this?!
Katie and Eric came over last night for margaritas and mexican food. Seems to be a trend we're in now.... yummy. Katie "leied" me for my birthday and the lei smelled wonderful. I love fresh flowers and Hawaii has such pretty ones.
I have a couple of wicker baskets that sit on a bookshelf in the living room to keep Ella's toys in. She loves to empty them out and throughout the day the house is littered with her toys. She's really good at cleaning up when we say "Let's clean up" before it's time for her to go to bed... with a lot of help from us, she'll gather her toys and throw them in the basket, mostly missing it but it's the thought that counts. This morning as I was cleaning up our breakfast, I heard silence aka TROUBLE! Here's how I found Ella. How she got sitting in the basket, I'll never know and I'm not sure you can see in the photo but the baskets are really quite small...
