All About Ella

Ella has cracked us up with quite a few things lately...she refers to Lightning McQueen, the main character in Cars, as "Lightning the Queen."  We have a movie called Veggie Tales:  Lord of the Beans.  After watching the first half one night, Ella asked if we could watch more "Lima the Beans" the next night.  "Veggie Tales" somehow morphed into "Jelly Beans," too.

Dropping Lucy off at school has always been kind of tough for Ella.  She gets a little sad and always gives Lucy a huge hug and kiss.  Last week, Ella took it to a whole new level...she put on quite the display of love for her sister.  She screamed the entire way out, not wanting to leave without Lucy.  We went to Pick N Save, and Ella sat in a regular cart.  She scooted her butt over to "make room for Lucy."  I told Ella we had to pay for our groceries, see what time it was, and then we would probably go get Lucy.  She was silent the whole time we were at the checkout.  Immediately after finishing, Ella asked me, "Can I see what time it is on your phone?  Can we go get Lucy?"  Once we got back to school, Ella ran in and literally knocked Lucy over with her hug.  She held Lucy's hand until we got in the car, and kept telling her, "I'm so glad you're here, Lucy!"

We started working on potty training this past weekend!  Ella picked out Pull-Ups (she chose Cars over Princesses), and has gone potty almost every single time we have put her on the toilet.  We got out the Puff Ball Jar that we used with Lucy...right now, Ella gets to put in a puff ball (one of those little pom-pom things) every time she goes potty.  As she gets better, we up the requirements to things like keeping her Pull-Up dry.  Once she gets enough puff balls, we take a trip to Toys R Us for a new toy.  She seems pretty excited about everything, and Lucy has been encouraging her like a good big sister.  Wish us luck!