A Boring Post

This weekend Spencer went to Toccoa to work while Ella Ann and I stayed behind and just hung out. The reason we didn't go with him was because he wasn't leaving until 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning and we would've come home that evening, so it was too long of a drive in one day. Anyway, since we didn't have much to do on Saturday, I made sure we got out and about so we wouldn't get bored! We went to a children's consignment sale on Saturday morning. It was half price day so we got some good deals, but most of the clothing in Ella Ann's size was not cute by then! I did manage to get one cute outfit for $2.50 and 9 books....my total was only $8:00! Yeay for bargin shopping! I let Ella Ann pick out a book all by herself and the one she picked out was the dumbest book imaginable, one because it made no sense and two it has a huge stuffed duckhead on the cover and throughout the pages that has a little tuft of hair on it's head. Now you can see why she picked it! She carries it everywhere and sucks her thumb while holding the tuft! After that we hit up Trader Joe's and then to story time at Barnes & Noble. After her nap we walked to the playground downtown and organized Ella Ann's closet once we got back home, which is about all we did that was remotely worthy of picture taking.

We have started keeping Ella Ann with us during the singing at church on Sunday mornings and taking her back to the nursery once the sermon begins, which she has done great with. She loves the singing! In fact, today we sang her favorite song, "God of Wonders," and Ella Ann sang right along with the rest of the congregation. She asks to sing that song every single day and by now knows all the words! Anyway, as soon as the song ended Ella Ann screamed, litterally shouted, "YEAY!!!!!!!" The ENTIRE congregation turned around (we were in the back row) and started laughing hysterically at us! Some people even shouted an "Amen!!!" to Ella Ann's "YEAY!" Ohhh it is a moment I will never ever forget! I know my face turned bright red (I was holding her while we sang), but it was the funniest thing to date that Ella Ann has done! I think she made everyone realize they should be more enthusiastic about worship! :)

"Hey Boy! Get back down!" This was what she was saying as a boy was trying to climb up the slide!

She started running around in circles after she saw a couple of boys chasing each other! She told me, "I want to run around in circles! Those boys are so funny, Mommy!"

Ohhhh I know! Look at this closet!!!! It is just terrible! This is life in a condo with a toddler! Just too much stuff and no place to put it except up, up, up!

So I went to IKEA twice this week, once to return something, and bought a couple of hanging organizers (one is in our closet for my sweaters). This little shelf, although it doesn't look like it, has helped out tremendously! Our baskets of toys are smaller and stuff is up off the floor!