Art Therapy

Ella's fish, Green Beans, died about a month ago. We didn't mention it on the Blog because it went fairly smoothly and didn't turn out to be too monumental. We gave the little guy a Cosby Show style toilet bowl funeral. We all said a nice thing about the fish, flushed, and moved on. Except for the next day when Dewey was rolling around happily on his back, Ella thought he was momentarily dead, and we had to explain that not all things that are on their backs are dead, this event didn't really turn into much.

Tonight Ella was drawing while I was making dinner. I asked her what she was drawing and she said Green Beans. I asked her if she misses him and out of nowhere she said, "Yes. That's why I'm drawing him. I want to see him. Can you help me draw the plant, please." That is so sweet. I bet it helped.

He was a good fish. Lived to be 10 months old. Impressive for a goldfish. We'll miss you little guy.

E-L-L-A

Check this out. Ella can write her own name. This is Ella writing her name not copying one of us writing it. This is it from memory, the way the rest of us write our names each day.
Backwards Ls...doesn't even matter. E with extra horizontal lines...no worries. The A kind of looks like an H...so be it. I'm very proud of this breakthrough!
While we're sharing breakthroughs in literacy we wanted to share this person with all the parts (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, hair, body) that Ella drew.

Happy Birthday Kelly!

We had a wonderful visit from Grammie, Papi, and Uncle B for Kelly's birthday. Here's some of what we did:

This picture is kind of blurry but can't you clearly see that Ella is just having the time of her life with Papi and Uncle B. Here's Papi showing he'll do just about anything for his favorite little girl. Unfortunately some of these things don't end as well as others. Grandfathers weren't meant to fit in playground bunnies. And when you don't fit, you fall out. Thanks again for a wonderful visit. We miss you and can't wait to see you again soon!

Halloween 2007

Here she is...Thank you for your patience. The Halloween Duck that doesn't fly! It was a satisfying reality, a fun Halloween, and a really good costume (great work pulling that off, K).
Here's the Duck and her good friend the Fireman confidently knocking on neighborhood doors.
And here's the yearly documentation of the Halloween ending with a tired Ellaphant, Dewey, or Duck.