So we've been to the Alamo every time someone comes to visit but there are actually 5 missions in San Antonio. While Papa was here, we decided to venture out to see the mission trail and stopped in at a few of them. So gorgeous! .... and great location scouting for my business!
And I will confess. It was cold and gray that day. We were all bundled up and Ella was having fun running through the missions and all the rock walls. These first two photos depict the true weather for our outing. So the beautiful blue sky you see in others, it's a photoshop trick.... the gray sky was just too bleak for such beautiful buildings :)
We stopped at Mission Espada, and Mission San Jose. We did see the other two but both were quite a bit smaller and one was under construction. It was a tad cold to spend the whole day outside....
Papa came down for Christmas for a week and brought a penguin from the Falkland Islands. Ella's Great-Grandparents got it from a trip down there and Great-Grandpa sent it for Ella.
Of course story time is always better with Papa....
We convinced Papa to get an iPad and if this isn't a sign of the times... a 5-year old giving lessons on the latest technology....
A photo shoot with Ella and her Papa before we took him to the airport and his flight home to Toronto...
No, we're not reading...yet. We're learning sight words and can sound lots of words out but reading at bedtime has always been a huge part of our nighttime routine. Since kindergarten started, I've noticed a big independence change in Ella. She happily can read on her own while we tidy up and will recite stories from memory and if that fails, makes the story up. It's one of my favorite things to capture on camera... she's just so sweet!
We went to the Nutcracker with our friends Karla and Kiyomi and the girls had so much fun being little ballerinas themselves....
