Ella's Pretty Funny These Days

1) This afternoon on the way home from school, Gracie asked me a question and I answered it and ended by saying, "Okie-dokie?" Ella spoke up and said, "Her name isn't okie-dokies. Her name is Sissy Doolin."

2) On the way home from dance class today I started humming one of Gracie's dance songs. Gracie said, "How do you know that song? It's on my dance teacher's Ipod." I said, "Well maybe I need to put it on my Ipod also so you can practice dancing to it." Ella chimed in with, "I want it on my teapod too." She kind of blended Ipod and teapot, and Gracie and I both cracked up! :-)

3) I had to run to Ben Franklin today and was trying to find something quickly. Ella kept saying, "I have pockets today, Mommy." She had on jeans today that had cute little cuffs at the bottom. "I need money for my pockets, Mommy." Well, I just wanted to keep looking, but I quickly gave her a coin from my purse. I realized she was struggling to keep up with me, so I turned around and she was putting her coin in the cuff of her jeans...her "pockets."

4) I'm not extremely proud of this fact, but for some reason one day while Ella was being goofy I called her a boobie-head. She giggled and has liked it ever since. Well, today when I called her a boobie-head she said, "I not a boobie-head. I'm Ella Boobie-Head."

Little Lambs

Tonight was Gracie's last night as a Little Lamb. Our church has a kids choir for children 2 years old - Kindergarten, and both Gracie and Ella love to be involved. I can remember the first few nights I took Gracie and she didn't want me to leave her because she was scared. Now she runs into the church and never looks back. She is already sad that she will no longer be a Little Lamb, but next fall she will join the God Rock Crew which is for kids 1st grade and up. Again, these pictures aren't great. I didn't want to be in the way too much while they were singing, but I think they show how much the kids enjoy being there.

Hillsong United

Brent and I headed to St. Louis today to go to a Hillsong United concert at the Fox Theatre. We went with a group of friends from our old church. We LOVE Hillsong, so we have been excited about this for a while. Here we are eating supper at The Jazz Bistro outside the Fox.

Angie, Missy, Brent, Bruce and Mike (we didn't see the rest of the group until we got to the concert)

The pictures from the concert are not very good or clear, but they show the atmosphere and mood of the concert. We were not disappointed in the show at all!!! It was awesome and I hope we can see them again sometime.

A Wasted Afternoon

We went to the Middle School today for what was advertised as "an entertaining afternoon for children and adults as Dr. Seuss comes to life." I took Gracie and Ella expecting crazy antics from people dressed up in Dr. Seuss attire or at least reading from Dr. Seuss books. Well, the joke was on me, because all it offered was the man shown above talking about Dr. Seuss and his life writing books. It was a horrible event to advertise "for children" because it wasn't even that entertaining for adults. I'm only posting this because I finally let Gracie kill time by taking pictures, so I wanted to post her photography.

(Paxton goes to daycare with Ella, and his big brother won a door prize so he had a cute stuffed animal to entertain him.)

That is not the face of an entertained little Ella.

"I Like to Move It, Move It"

Ella loves to dance just like her big sister, and her favorite song to dance to is from Madagascar. It's called, "I Like to Move It, Move It" and she sings it all the time. Here are some of her moves.

Our First Golf Outing of the Season

Today was a gorgeous day, so after church we headed to Moberly to take the girls golfing. I went along to take pictures, as usual! Gracie had a lot of fun but was probably distracted by Ella and me being there. Ella was a pretty good sport. She enjoyed "hitting" the ball, keeping score and drinking water from the canteen stations.

Brent loves this picture of Gracie. He said if she is a golfer in high school it will be fun to dig this out and show her how great her form was, even at 6 years old!

Spring is Here

Our neighborhood has a lot of beautiful trees that have exploded with blooms this week. The neighbors a few houses down have a magnolia tree that was gorgeous today, so we headed down to see it up close. The girls loved the big flowers!

Does that look like a forced smile, or what?!

And another one! We must need to work on our "natural" look!

After we got back home the girls were ready to swing. They still love the swing set that our friends from Keokuk gave us when Gracie was 2 years old. Thanks Bruce and Missy!!!