Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
We had a great Christmas and New Year, and hope you experienced the same. This photo was taken on Christmas Day in St. Louis.
Ella had a long Christmas that began on Sat. 12-23 when she received her gift from us: The Radio Flyer talking Liberty spring horse. Yes, we are crazy! It does take up most of our living room, but she loves it and will be able to burn off some terrible two energy on it this winter while we're trapped inside. David enjoyed his first real rite of passage into Fatherhood with a big toy assembly, and enjoyed the godfather jokes even more. We seriously contemplated taking a photo of him lying in bed with the horse's head, but decided it would be too traumatic for Ella if she ever saw it. Ella also opened a few gifts Nana & Pa sent her--"the tea set with princesses all over it" and some blocks that her and Papa love to play with together. He's already taught her about structural redundancy....
The hard part was when it was time to leave the next morning and she was crying and very upset. We were finally able to catch our taxi to the airport by covering the horse with a blanket and moving it over by her teaset so he could "watch over" and take care of it for her while we were gone! Of course the ride to the airport at 6:30 a.m. Ella talked non-stop, and as we drove by certain landmarks, and got on the Kennedy expressway she said "this is how we go to California, and this is how we go to Arizona", and at the airport "I will take off my shoes". She definitely knows the drill, and has her own frequent flyer numbers! On the flight home she enjoyed buckling baby into her carseat on the plane and reading her the evacuation book.
We enjoyed our time in St. Louis visiting with our family. Grandpa Jeff and Grandma Marion.... I mean Uncle Jeff and Aunt Marion were the stars and Ella would say "Marionnnnnnnn", "Marionnnnn" instead of "Mamaaaaa", "Mamaaaa" when she needed something--so I loved it!
Cousin Blake was there with Clarence and cousin Matthew too. Blake had just got engaged and asked Ella to be a flowergirl in his wedding. She doesn't understand how long five months is though, and keeps saying "In about five minutes, we'll go to Blake and Karla's wedding". We went out to Aunt Sue and Uncle Monte's house on Christmas night and opened more presents, ate more food and saw cousins Josh and Jared too. We made a trip down to Cuba (Missouri that is) to see Jon and Angie's new home and let the girl's play some more. Luckily the girl's didn't find any scissors that day....unlike over the weekend when Gracie and Lexi played barbershop with a friend and Gracie became the coveted client by all the barber's. It's a good thing hair grows back!
We're glad to be home and took down the tree yesterday after a lot of "you want to talk about the story of Tori's Christmas tree again". The story is that last Christmas when it was time to take the Christmas tree down at the Hudson's home, Tori was very upset and cried and cried. But Miss Cheryl and Mr. Jeff said Tori, It's o.k.! We'll get another tree next year! This helped Ella feel better about the tree going away.
I think one of the highlight's of the season was when our neighbor, a pastry chef, invited Ella to be her guest at an event where you make a Gingerbread house. It was alot of fun. And of course the much talked about visit to Santa. Ella said she would not cry this year and would be happy. Well, she didn't cry, but she was definitely not going to sit on his lap. However, she was willing to take a candy cane from him and let me hold her and stand next to him. He did come through on her only requests which were "a bottle for baby" and "a Meet Diego book".
Check out all of our pictures and come visit us soon. Ella wants everyone to see her horse.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chicagochronicles/343135728/in/set-72157594417317356/
Ella had a long Christmas that began on Sat. 12-23 when she received her gift from us: The Radio Flyer talking Liberty spring horse. Yes, we are crazy! It does take up most of our living room, but she loves it and will be able to burn off some terrible two energy on it this winter while we're trapped inside. David enjoyed his first real rite of passage into Fatherhood with a big toy assembly, and enjoyed the godfather jokes even more. We seriously contemplated taking a photo of him lying in bed with the horse's head, but decided it would be too traumatic for Ella if she ever saw it. Ella also opened a few gifts Nana & Pa sent her--"the tea set with princesses all over it" and some blocks that her and Papa love to play with together. He's already taught her about structural redundancy....
The hard part was when it was time to leave the next morning and she was crying and very upset. We were finally able to catch our taxi to the airport by covering the horse with a blanket and moving it over by her teaset so he could "watch over" and take care of it for her while we were gone! Of course the ride to the airport at 6:30 a.m. Ella talked non-stop, and as we drove by certain landmarks, and got on the Kennedy expressway she said "this is how we go to California, and this is how we go to Arizona", and at the airport "I will take off my shoes". She definitely knows the drill, and has her own frequent flyer numbers! On the flight home she enjoyed buckling baby into her carseat on the plane and reading her the evacuation book.
We enjoyed our time in St. Louis visiting with our family. Grandpa Jeff and Grandma Marion.... I mean Uncle Jeff and Aunt Marion were the stars and Ella would say "Marionnnnnnnn", "Marionnnnn" instead of "Mamaaaaa", "Mamaaaa" when she needed something--so I loved it!
Cousin Blake was there with Clarence and cousin Matthew too. Blake had just got engaged and asked Ella to be a flowergirl in his wedding. She doesn't understand how long five months is though, and keeps saying "In about five minutes, we'll go to Blake and Karla's wedding". We went out to Aunt Sue and Uncle Monte's house on Christmas night and opened more presents, ate more food and saw cousins Josh and Jared too. We made a trip down to Cuba (Missouri that is) to see Jon and Angie's new home and let the girl's play some more. Luckily the girl's didn't find any scissors that day....unlike over the weekend when Gracie and Lexi played barbershop with a friend and Gracie became the coveted client by all the barber's. It's a good thing hair grows back!
We're glad to be home and took down the tree yesterday after a lot of "you want to talk about the story of Tori's Christmas tree again". The story is that last Christmas when it was time to take the Christmas tree down at the Hudson's home, Tori was very upset and cried and cried. But Miss Cheryl and Mr. Jeff said Tori, It's o.k.! We'll get another tree next year! This helped Ella feel better about the tree going away.
I think one of the highlight's of the season was when our neighbor, a pastry chef, invited Ella to be her guest at an event where you make a Gingerbread house. It was alot of fun. And of course the much talked about visit to Santa. Ella said she would not cry this year and would be happy. Well, she didn't cry, but she was definitely not going to sit on his lap. However, she was willing to take a candy cane from him and let me hold her and stand next to him. He did come through on her only requests which were "a bottle for baby" and "a Meet Diego book".
Check out all of our pictures and come visit us soon. Ella wants everyone to see her horse.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chicagochronicles/343135728/in/set-72157594417317356/
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