#1 was with grandparents.
#2 was a quiet, low-key evening at home.
We had SO many leftovers! It was a lot of fun. Ellie was pretty choosy about what she ate but she tried it at least.
Our girl did not like the time change this year! The "fall back" made her "fall out" at about 6:00 every night! She would get whiny/weepy and kind of walk around the house in slow motion in tears. Of course she only had to take about 3 steps around here before someone rushed to pick her up and comfort her! One night, I was all alone with her (Jeff took the other three to the golf course) and she had a mix of sadness about not going with them and tiredness. She was clutching paint brushes when I sat down with her and before I knew it, she was asleep in my arms. I gingerly transitioned her out of my lap and she did not move! I had to wake her up because I had not fed her dinner yet! It was not easy - I ended up being happy with her taking a few bites of pancakes and some fruit before she readily went back to sleep at 8:30!
Here she is sleeping in a little in the mornings. It's so funny when I check on her and she's at the "foot" of the bed. I think she likes the pressure of the netting against her head. She flops around quite a bit at night - she's usually all over the place. She still loves her bed very much and runs and dives into it at night. We read some books in there and then she has a little light up aquarium that she turns off herself when she's had enough talking to her stuffed animals.
Our weekly trips to speech and physical therapy have wrapped up until January. The kids are great about taking their school along with them! But we have an ambitious load ahead these next two weeks before Christmas so we won't be taking our school on the road for a while.
Ellie's "school". She loves Mr. Gary and works very hard to say the things he asks her to say and sometimes they just "chat".
Ellie made it through her third mass ever in the pews with the family! This one was just the 5 of us at the Immaculate Conception mass last Friday. Luckily she was happy with the supply of books we brought. There was one time she started pointing to something and saying "Ma" which means I have to guess what she's trying to show me. Luckily I got it before she got too loud!
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| All dressed in blue for Mary! |
