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Ella is insane……and things that I love currently

So one morning the house was pretty quiet.

 Rob was working, Oliver was taking his morning nap, Coop was at pre-school, and the Doodle was livin it up first grade style.

 And Ella…..oh our Ella………….she was talking, and talking, and talking……….with total disregard for our responses or our involvement in her conversation. And this, my dears, is what she was saying

 {typed as she was talking}

Teeny tiny table

Baby too big to go outside

I lost yours key back

I lost yours keys a little bit

I break my oranges

Peaches

Go shows mama…………baby button………I want get down my chair mama

Owie hand? No that baby jammas

Shake yours booty

Watch shows? Why? You in there?

Too big for oliver’s ears

Yo gabba gabba…. Jump flap flap

This polka dots? Too big olivers ears

No more bathtub

Where my poo go? You fix it?

Why cherry eyes?

Need clothes on…..need shirt on……..me buckled already …try again

{Pointing at my shirt}……haves cookies?

Buckled already polkadots

Watch ella owie?

Get yours eyeball out dere

I like it out

I wont watch yours monster  ’puter

{I love her………she is the best kind of insane}

and what I am loving lately:

{hearing Aleksia’s bedtime prayers after a family home evening about gratitude….she listened}

~getting a thank you phone call for doing something that I was worried didn’t go as well as I had hoped~

{antibiotics for little bodies}

~long curly boy hair~

{baby smiles}

~advice from the hubs~

{online book clubs}

~friend chats~

{invitaion making}

~baby face kissing~

{hanging out at Aleksia’s school on Thursdays}

~sleeping in a bit~

{”marketing research” for Sweet Lizzie’s candy store}

and mostly…………..I love most parts of my day to day right now. Of course there are things I want to make different, but I feel happy right now. And that, my friends, is delicious…….

cheers,

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Things are jolly good…….

yeah…..it’s fancy. We think we’re pretty spectacular. It even sometimes slips out when I am helping in Aleksia’s class and the doodle’s classmates look at us a little sideways.

so….. we have been doing stuff here. I like it. It makes January a little less January-like.

{awesome thing #1}

We had an awesome trip to the emergency room…..I think a guy in the next room kept coding……….so yeah the ER doc was pretty busy and we just kinda sat there with a bleeding Ella patty.

 {so the story goes like this}

    Ella was drinking from a glass in the kitchen~ Coop thought he would tease her a little bit and ran by her and knocked her shoulder~ which then made her drop the glass ~ which then broke into a thousand million pieces~ and that my friends is how fairies are born~

I mean…..Ella was  thrown off balance and headed for the floor~ She put her hands down to catch herself of course and thats when her hand and a large glass shard became one for a brief instance ~ not such a pretty site~

7 or 8 stiches later our crazy girl is back to normal~ she doesn’t pay much attention to her broken little patty and we’re thankful things weren’t worse than they were.

{mind you this is at re-bandage time, we’re not so negligent that we let our two year old glass shard victim run around with a naked owie hand….just so you know}

{awesome thing no.2}

Rob’s sis Carlene and 2 kiddles Carmen and Howie {from Cali} stayed the night at our place and we partied it up in true “we have six children under 8″ kind of fashion. Meaning we did nothing but hang out and enjoy eachother’s company. It makes me miss that awesome Martin crew so much. But yay for California vacations and family that lets us crash at their homestead.

{awesome thing Number C}

{awesomness infinity}

I remade my topiary.

I know everyone has been wanting to know how the whole Topiary tragedy of 2010 panned out. Well, don’t worry folks I now have a perfectly lovely set of moss covered topiaries just hanging out cute as can be. And they are deliciously black and white so they will live in this spot long after my Valentine decor has been laid to rest.  My soul is happy.

{awesome times no. 5}

I have nothing else to add to this ~ but this~ did you know that you can be minding your own business just reading a night time story to your two little princess faces and when you least expect it a profound answer to your pleading prayers will abruptly appear before your eyes?

 God is good.

 He is mindful of all of his children. He knows us and our inner most desires. And He LOVES us. Each of us.