Ella being silly at dinner
Originally uploaded by roniweb.

Hello...anyone still there?

Here's a new Ella photo from dinner tonight. This is evidence of not just her silliness, but also of her love of soccer. Yes, that is dirt on her face. And yes, I let it stay on during dinner because well, it was hard enough getting her hands clean.

Reason #145,234,109 that we're in trouble - she's competitive and a perfectionist. Oh yes, we knew that, but I don't think we realized how much she was infected until tonight's practice.

See, there's this drill the coach has them do. They run while dribbling the ball as a race. So the goal is to run as fast as you can while keeping control of the ball and then the first one who scores a goal wins. The first time they did this tonight she came in 2nd or 3rd...if she had followed through. See, once she saw that she wasn't coming in first, she quit the drill. And this kept going until she finally won one race and then she completed the drills, even coming in second or later.

There were a few times when she would trip and fall, but she'd get right back up. She ran as hard as she could and only won a few of the drills due to control. Which I hope she understands because she's not the fastest kid on the team. In fact she's close to the bottom in age. We have quite a few 5 and 6yos on the team. Yeah...that's my grrl.

She's strong, fast, smart, and her parents' daughter...dear goddess, we are in so much trouble!

So we had a 5.4 earthquake this morning...of course it was an hour before I woke up so I missed it. Oh yes, our super alert doggie barks like the axe murderer is breaking in when the neighbors come home, go down for laundry, or come home thru the front door, but an earthquake? Snooze. Aren't animals supposed to feel these things and alert us dumb humans?

*sigh*

Oh and the morning news folks are being ridiculous. One guy even explained that there was no noticeable change in Lake Michigan...no tsunami.

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Yep, those are Dora pajamas
Originally uploaded by cinnachick.

Dear Kate,

While I am not the most fashion forward woman you know, I am trying for my daughter's sake. I hope you don't hold this example against me as I was not responsible for the purchase of light-up-jelly shoes.

OTOH, you would be quite impressed at the way she was flipping thru the racks at Nordstrom today. She was very serious about her shopping.

Love your BFF,
Roni

Me 099/366
Originally uploaded by roniweb.

Yesterday we went to our first Cubs game of the year and sat in the bleachers. Ella had a good time eating almost an entire bag of peanuts and pretending to be too shy to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." I even tempted her with the fact that if she was singing the cameras might show her on TV and then Grandpa J would see her. No deal.

The hubby & I had a grand time laughing at the silly drunk peeps. At one point the right field section started their usual chant of "Left field sucks!" One guy stood up in front of us and tried to lead us all in the chant of "Left field sucks!" The hubby & this guy standing behind him just laughed, "Dude, we are left field!"

As for the game it was a good one. Big Z wasn't quite on as usual...maybe he does need all that Red Bull. Especially since he's still 0 for the season at the plate and he's a pretty darn good hitter. We got to see two home runs and a win!

Ella's still not into the game enough to watch for even 7 innings. We left at the top of the 8th as she was almost asleep in the 5th & 6th innings. She kept waking up asking when we were going to sing. Eyes on the prize chica...eyes on the prize. ;)

Overall, it was a great day, perfect weather and outside of the sunburn I have on my right arm, it couldn't had been better.

Apologies for letting this blog become a slowly dying blog...Life has gotten super busy, lots of other writing to do, I have two official mentors (one I met with today...love her!), still sitting on the fence about grad school, and the travel season really kicks off this weekend. Off the top of my head I'm out of town from now until July 3 times for conference and once for a bachelorette party. It's in Kansas City...don't get too excited. But if you're near there, come on by. It's a 3 day event! The hubby's hitting Vegas & NOLA without me in May.

All that means that this blog, which is now more of a bitch fest blog or a vanity blog, whatever, is getting the shaft big time. But if you're still reading...thanks.

So Miss Ella? I know that's why you still visit! ;)

• She toured the school that most likely will be hers in the fall. I'm hoping to squirm our way into another school, but chances are it won't happen. She really liked it. I think because there were a lot of "big kids" there for her to gawk at. She also hit it off with some of the administrators who walked us around.
• She's going to have Crackberry thumb by the age of 5. She has a play cell phone which she has now moved into sending pretend text messages or checking of the email. Oh, did I mention the hubby got a Crackberry? So I'm on the Treo, he's on the Crackberry, and Ella's playing along.
• She loves it that spring is here...at least for today. Spring means she can wear dresses without jeans underneath, we go on walks after dinner, and well, she gets to be outside.
  
• She hates it...HATES it when we fight. We had a very short disagreement this morning and she chided both the hubby & I about fighting.
• We saw that damned "Angel" ASPCA commercial tonight and she declared that she wanted us to get those kitties. When I said we couldn't (the hubby almost died the one year we did have a cat.) she almost burst into tears thinking the kitties would be homeless.
  

Well tomorrow I have the day off. I'm having lunch with Brandon to catch on things. We haven't spent any real time together in months and we both have major drama to tell each other. I'm still unsure what to do with my free afternoon. A movie? Perhaps a chick flick that I wouldn't subject the hubby to? Or do I find a coffee shop and write, write, write my fingers off? Because really, I'm far behind on a few submissions that are coming due in the next two months. Especially one I haven't even started. *sigh* Maybe I'll try to get a lot of writing in before lunch. Maybe.

Later!

I just bought this button & bobby pin set on Etsy. Photos aren't uploading on Blogger right now, but click over to see my recent purchase. And yes, they were made just for me. I'm special dontcha know?

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