Ellie's views on life

Apparently while in Utah someone must have said something to Ellie indicating that it wouldn't be long before she would be grown and be a Mommy as there have been several separate but hilarious views on life escaping her cute little mouth since her return.

The first was when she told me that when she's a Mommy, she wants me to come to her house and watch her babies play so she can type on the computer.

Later she was holding one of her larger baby dolls and looked at me and asked, "Grami, how can I get this baby back in my tummy cause she's not born yet?"

Yesterday she told me she was going to have three babies. I said, "Really?" to which she replied, "Yes, three babies, three brothers and three big girls." Then she added, "And three daddies to help take care of them."

They're HOME!

At 11:30P just after I drove up, Tiff brought the girls out of the airport building, and when they saw me they broke into a run, yelling “Grami!” I picked them up simultaneously and hugged and kissed them until I was sure they would probably beg me to release them, but bless their hearts, they didn’t.

I got them into the passenger seat to get out of the cold while Aaron and Tiff retrieved their bags and set up the car seats. They jabbered constantly, Ellie completely nonstop from then until she finally was asleep at home at 12:45. While in the front seat and later from their carseats on the ride home, they told me many things about their trip’s adventures. Occasionally Mila would say “stop talking, I’m trying to go to sleep.” But then she’d pipe in again herself.

When they first entered the house, Ellie looked around like she didn’t recognize the place. She finally said, “Look, the ladybug stayed here!” (pointing to her ladybug beanbag chair). She was really, really hyper, running around the house a million miles an hour.

We visited for a few minutes and they had soy milk, brushed their teeth, got on their jammies, then were so excited to get into their own beds. Mila asked Mommy if I could put them to bed and she said yes. Mila just beamed! Me too.

We sat in the dark for a few minutes, Ellie had asked me to rock her and sing “Hush little baby,” which I messed up and started over three times. She wasn’t happy with my leaving out the horse and cart and Mila told me we should get the book to see what the words were, Ellie added we could go to the library to find the book. I'm out of practice.

I finally completed the song successfully, but by then Ellie had decided she wanted her Daddy to snuggle with her so she could go to sleep. She told me I should snuggle with Mila. I told her we needed to let Mila have her turn rocking first, and she cheerfully agreed.

Mila has grown so much we had trouble getting her to fit in my lap where I must sit on the edge of her bed (the space leftover after the railing on the side). We never really got that comfortable but she hugged me for two songs then crawled up onto her pillow by her own choosing.

Ellie again asked for Daddy and I told her I would go get him after the next song, but after the next song she was still wide awake, so I told her he was in the bathroom and would come in a few minutes. She accepted that and finally settled down, after jabbering again for a couple of minutes (she was really, really, really hyper) and I finally heard her snoring. 

I waited a couple of minutes to be sure everyone was really asleep, then left, with a huge smile on my face and in my heart.

I’m so glad they’re home!!!!!!

Utah Vacation 2009

Tiff just called  and they got there safely - - it was quite an ordeal though, had to alter flight plans when they checked in at PBI (some sort of anticipated problem with the second leg of the trip), and instead flew to Atlanta, had to change planes there, had no checked luggage so had four carryon suitcases, four backpacks, two car seats, and two toddlers for the change of planes!

They got in at 12:30 Utah time (2:30 our time). She said the girls slept on the second flight about 3 hours, Ellie woke up a few minutes before they were to land and was able to watch the landing, which was a thrill for her.

Mila woke up as people were leaving the plane so both girls were able to walk off the plane which was a huge help with all the luggage/car seats and not having to carry sleeping girls too. They both slept intermittently during the rental car ride to Laura's, waking up and talking about the snow a few times. Tiff said they were very excited!

The girls woke up at 7 am (Utah time, funny how that worked!) and are headed outside now to make snowballs!

Yippee!

Mila and Ellie perform!

Mila & Ellie,
Grandpa Ed and Peggy came to visit this Christmas and brought down so many wonderful gifts from Santa for you!
Two of the gifts are magical harps that play the most beautiful music and as you will see below you have fallen in love with them! Look at the two of you dance!
I sure do love you, angels.
Love, AuntJen :-)

Channukah Chanukah Hanukia Hanukkah and Veronica

Quoting Tiffany via text message today:

Mila learned about Channukah in preschool. Now whenever we see a menorah, I ask what it's called and she thinks hard and says, it's its's it's . . .  a veronica!