Just Like Daddy

 

I walked into the living room the other day and Ellie had Matt's glasses on and was sitting in the chair reading the paper. I asked her why she had her daddy's glasses on and she said she needed them to see the paper :)

Swimming Play Date

We had a fun time on Friday swimming with our friends at their new house!

 

Ellie and Blair

 

 

My sweet little fish :)

First Day of School!

Thursday was Miss Ellie's first day of Mother's Day Out!

She looks so big!!!

 

 

After meeting her new teacher and going to her new classroom I was a little worried about how she would act when I dropped her off. She started telling me when we went down the hallway that she didn't want this room and didn't like that room. Finally we came to her new room and she was not happy about it at all...

 

But as soon as she heard the words " Lets Paint" from her new teacher...her attitude changed completely.

 

She told me when I picked her up " I had good day with Ms Teri, Mommy"

 

We left school and got some ice cream to celebrate her good day.

 

I was looking back at pictures from her first day last year...

She looks so little.

It is so crazy what a difference a year makes!

Meet the teacher

Today was Ellie's meet the teacher at school.

I have been telling her for the past few weeks that she was starting school soon and she would have a new teacher and a new class. She has been very excited about going back to school!

 

I had to take a few pictures of her before we headed to school.

 

She looks so cute...

I could just eat her eat her up...

 

 

Here she was in her new classroom.

 

She really liked playing in the classroom and she even had a few kids in her class this year from last year which I doubt she even realizes that :)

When we started to get ready to go I told her that we would go by and see Ms Genetta and her old classroom and she started saying " I not like dis room...I wanna go to my oder room....I not like dis teacher." I guess I should have just kept my mouth shut :)

Tomorrow is her first day so we will see how she will do... I sure it will be great!!!

 

Homemade Biscotti

 

I made some homemade biscotti the other day and it was delicious.

Ellie has even enjoyed snacking on it but it has chocolate in it so that doesn't shock me :)

 

 

You can find the recipe here if you want to try it out!

I did substitute the cranberries and pistachios for chocolate chips and almonds and I will probably add a little extra of the chocolate chips when I made them again.

Small Group at the Lake

This past weekend we had our small group friends up to the lake for the day

We had a good group and a great time swimming, tubing, skiing, riding the jet ski, and eating of course!!

Riding Bikes

Ellie got a bike for her birthday and loves it but we don't have a great place for her to ride it.

She wants to do it all by herself and for the most part she can so we took her down to the park and let her ride in the empty parking lot there and she did great!

We knew the park would be a MAJOR distraction for this sweet little two year old so we did not spend as much time practicing our riding as we did swinging, sliding and running