Eee. Mo!

Lee told me that I absolutely have to blog tonight. Well, he didn't actually say that, but the mere fact that he reminded me three times this weekend that I hadn't blogged in two weeks spoke volumes. He made me feel a little guilty with all of the "I've seen a decline in the number of people looking at your blog" and "you know... having a blog isn't any good if you only write once every two weeks". Sheez! He suggested that I write shorter blogs with more pictures. Apparently he thinks my readers have the attention span of a fruit fly (or maybe it's just him). So I will try... but no promises.

Last weekend was the Fourth and we took Ellie to the Park Cities Fourth of July Parade. I can't believe she was such a little thing when we took her last year and this year she was running around picking up the candy and other things thrown off the floats with the rest of the kids. Maybe soon she'll be one of the kids in the parade. We didn't know if all of the sirens at the beginning of the parade would scare her, but she didn't seem to mind. She really like seeing the horses and bands and as I said... loved running about to pick up the candy. She's never eaten candy so I have no clue how she know what it was. That afternoon we went to one of Lee's friends parties where Ellie tried to jump in the pool fully clothed. I think she's been missing the water. Every night when I give her a bath, she plunks her head into the water and starts blowing bubbles. I was encouraging this until she did it in the dog's water bowl last week. So we're starting up the swimming lessons again next weekend. On Saturday, we went to Tyler to visit Lee's parents. They have a pool and Ellie loved splashing around in it.

Ellie has added two new words to her vocabulary. We've been working on "more", but it comes out "mo". If she wants something like goldfish or milk, now she'll point at it and say "mo". Today she also mimicked me after I asked her if she wanted to eat. She got very excited and said "eee!". I imagine it will only be a matter of time before she puts the two together and wants to "eeee mo". I've come to the realization that we are getting to the point that she is starting to repeat so I'm going to need to do a better job of censoring myself.

I always feel like I have to do twice the work after a holiday weekend because I get off on my routine. We had a pretty uneventful weekend this weekend and just stayed around here. There's not a whole lot that you can do when it's 102 outside. We got out the pool for Ellie to splash around in and she liked it. We got a babysitter Saturday night and had a date night. We went to Perry's and then for drinks at Trece. The girl from next door sat for Ellie and called me "ma'am". There's nothing that will make you feel older than a 15 year old calling you "ma'am". She might as well have called me grandma. I tried to play cool by talking about the Jonas Brothers and High School Musical, but I'm sure it didn't fly.

One last picture... when we dry Ellie off after her baths, we still use those baby towels with the hood on them. When I open the bathroom door, she bolts down the hall with the towel still attached to her head flowing behind her like a superhero cape. We call her "Super B".

And last but not least... congrats to Debbie and Justin who are expecting on February 14. So excited for them. AND they're moving back to Dallas!!! I was very happy to hear both bits of information this weekend.