Family Day

Today we had family day since this was the last "official day" of spring break. We ended the day at ChuckECheese for Ellie's first trip there and Josh's, well, 100th or so. Josh loves to play the games and is excellent at it. He and I had some intense Skeeball competitions, along with some basketball and street ball challenges. I think we ended up tying pretty much every time.

Ellie was enamoured with it all, but seemed a bit overwhelmed (wonder why?) and rode the carousel ride, sat in the "ridey" car with CEC and even met him. She LOVED eating pizza and would grab the piece with those front five teeth and just tear her a piece off and chew on it. It was so funny!!

First ride on a carousel ...

Meeting Barney ... Notice how unsure she looks ...

Then She reaches out to touch him and it was all good ...

Josh playing one of the many games he played while there ...

Josh practicing up to take on Mom at Skeeball . . .

Same pattern with CEC ... check out that look ...

Touching again...

Enjoying pizza . . .

Ellie gives pizza a large clap-clap, showing her approval . . .

Look at how many tickets this boy won ...

Ellie meets CEC ...

Feeding the ticket machine . . .

How many did he end up with ...

717!! Incredible!

One of the BEST things about today was meeting up with A. and getting the shirts she monogrammed for Ellie. I am so absolutely IN LOVE with these shirts!!!! Check out her site at With Sugar on Top. She is so talented and creative!!

Tomorrow is the last day for consignment sale work -- sort day. I'm looking forward to fall already!!

One of the things we've discovered that Ellie loves is ice cream. She literally smacks her mouth when she's eating it. Tonight, on the way home, we stopped and got some ice cream and she was smacking away in her carseat, getting little bites along when I told her, "It's a good thing you live in America little girl or there would be no ice cream." Kevin and Josh reminded me that yes, there is ice cream in Kyrgyzstan but it costs about $10 for a pint, probably an unattainable sweet treat. I think John Wright needs to have a Simple Dream ice cream party this summer -- hand cranked maybe.