favorite things in life

Hold you me. When you have kids, they come up with all sorts of things to say, names to call people, generic sayings. Ella has not been a stranger to this sort of language. The one that has lasted the longest and just warms my heart through and through is "hold you me". She has out grown all her little sayings, but still today, when she wants me to hold her, is it "hold you me"

Baby Kaitlin. OHHH we ADORE this child. This is my absolutely beautiful niece. Ella is obsessed with her. If you come over to our home, Ella has about 20 babies and they are ALL named Kaitlin. The other day when we told her we were getting a baby boy, I asked her what she thought we should name him, her response "baby katie boy". I told her we already had a baby Kait so we would have to find something else. I see how much she loves her baby cousin because it has always been so important to me to be around family. I just can not WAIT to see how she will be with baby boy Hardin soon!!!

This is my new favorite game. Since we moved to our new house, we nearly tripled our square footage. I taught Ella marco polo so if I am in a different spot, we just call our "Marco" "Polo". If you are ever at our house or playing hide and seek with us, you might here "Markers" "Pillow" because that is what my sweet little gal calls it. Geoff and I can not help but smile when we play this game

Ohhh my life....

I love my life but man, it is such a soap opera sometimes. I look back at it and it does not seem real.

So I am a dork and could not figure out how to log into my account and update on the most recent events of our life.

Some of them would include: me in a cast, Ella in a cast, me facing surgery to a weird thing with my achilles tendon, Eddie our Great Dane dying, my parents in Africa, Candas birthday, Geoff's birthday, Ella's birthday and party ( which I forgot to send the invites out to and we rented a pool- so I had to do a lame email to everyone) AND we are having a baby boy scheduled to arrive in Aug.

Now that I know how to log on, I will keep my so entertaining life. Pictured above is Ella right after the ER trip with her broken arm, my foot and our friends the Turners. Who we all go to the same orthopedic surgeon together AND have the same dr appts. We are a gimpy family!!

I am miserable

I dont think I can do more than a week away from her again. Ella is having a great time thought. Yesterday she went horse back riding and wants to do it again today but I think they are going to lake and use the paddle boats or fish. All in all, she is having a wonderful time. But I am not. I am totally lost with out her. I just get sad and dont get anything done that I thought I would. I have ALL this time and could totally use it to my benefit, and yet, I stay in my PJ's till after lunch. Ohh I am a pathetic mess.

So most of you guys know we are one some fertility meds to try and get pregnant again. According to the blood work, it is working but apparently, I just can not seem to make the whole "look who's talking" thing work. So Lisa, my friend who is an OB nurse told me to use an ovulation kit. So I thought it was like a pregnancy test. Two lines, pregnant. Only with the stupid ovulation ones, two lines mean NOTHING. You have to see if one line is DARKER than the other one. SERIOUSLY??? I cant tell. I am just so frustrated with all of this. I am 30, thought things would be a bit different, which is ok. This will be the last month I try to do this. We will need a break after this. I hate it. HATE IT. I would rather just get my pottery barn magazine and just order the baby I think is the best. Call it a day and wait for the stork to drop them off. Someone told me those babies were not available though.....

Shes gone...

Ella drove off with my parents today. For EIGHT days. I have very mixed feelings about this. I am not motivated to do anything I am just so sad. My parents and sister all make fun of me when I send her away, but I just freak out. Being adopted, she is the only living thing I have that is any part of me. Right now, I can not have more kids ( which is a whole nother post later) and if anything happened to her, I just do not know what I would do. Since I had Ella Kate, she is my "identity". I am used to having her around 24- 7. Yes, a break would be GREAT, but 8 days is really long. I dont know what I am supposed to do. I guess I will be talking to my self a lot since she is not here!! HA.

She left with instructions to paint her room pink and brown. So that will be my project while she is gone. Making her a really cool room.


Enough of the whining.

fun at Walmart

Everyone has told me I needed to start a blog about Ella Kate. Well almost three years have gone by and I am now starting one.

Today, Ella woke up at 5:40 am. FIVE FOURTY AM!!! Are you kidding me!!!! We get up and sleepily start the day. Here is what had happened by 9:30am:

Ella Kate, my dad and I go take Geoffs car to Walmart to get new tires. While we were waiting to pick out tires, I put Ella on the counter to "get out of the way". All of the sudden there was a big crash and down came a plastic jug of fuel additive. All over my foot, all over the floor. Well of course, since it was a non organic fluid, they have to clean up from environmental standards.

While we were waiting for "wet clean up in automotive" the machanics came out and told me they could not find the key to unlock the lug nuts on this stupid foreign car my DH has.

In the mean time, my father and machanic are furiously looking for it. Paged geoff three times and finally got him. Now I have the key. "I need to go potty", I hear from a very teeny tiny and yet, sweet voice. "ok Ella".

Walmart apparently has very touchy automatic flusher on the potty. Ella was doing her biz and the potty flushed. I have never in my life seen a child jump as high as she did. Off the toilet she came STILL peeing mind you. Scared to death, Ella climbed back up on the potty to finish her stuff, only for it to flush AGAIN. Not once, but twice did she jump off while peeing.

I wish I could say that was the only thing that happened today, but it was not. Enough though to start a blog!!!

Heather