Ellison seemed to enjoy having this strange messed-up area to explore for a few days. It was a new world to her. She was very helpful, trying to sweep up messes and supervise the painters. She was so proud that Grandma actually let her paint with the real stuff!
The gang even brought this cool "playhouse" for Ellison to hang out in - their van. Ell had so much fun walking around in it once all the paint supplies were taken out. When I tried getting her out of it after a while, she kept shaking her head, telling me "No". She even had a bit of papparazi during the fun.
Needless to say, she let us know that she didn't want to be in her bed after that.
Ellison's Abuelo, Abuela, Aunt Ana, & Aunt Marie sent her all kinds of wonderful gifts for Easter. She was so excited when the first thing she saw was this squishy chick. She immediately hugged him & rocked back & forth.
It was fun this year having Ellison be interested in preparing her Easter basket. She was fascinated by the "grass", and was placing just a few strands at a time in the basket. Since she didn't seem to want to place the plastic eggs in the basket, I took it upon myself, and she quickly started taking them back out of the basket, but then eventually gave up.
Tonight we went to Chuck E. Cheese with the Perez family. We all thought the girls would enjoy the surroundings. Remind me to drug myself before going next time. WAIT - not because of the Perez's - we LOVE them, and we are happy to hang out with them anywhere! But this place was just crawling with too many people in too small of a "fun" space. I seriously was feeling like I was ADD by the time we left there. We all decided we needed to decompensate before heading home, so we jaunted over to Barnes & Noble where there's a very calm kid-friendly area. The girls ran around for a bit and entertained themselves. But as the proverbial saying goes, "It's all fun and games until...". In this particular case, we get to finish the sentence with "... two little girls decide to simultaneously mess their diapers". That Caroline & Ellison - they are so in tune to each other. :)
On Saturday we went down the street to Guilford Courthouse Military Park, one of three of the parks in Guilford County that was commemorating the 227th Anniversary of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse during the Revolutionary War. It's actually a big production with several different events, the most anticipated being the re-enactment of the battle. We would've liked to have seen that, but little Mookie does need her afternoon nap. :) At any rate, we were able to catch the Observance Ceremony while we were at the park. Ellison was awesome - she loves being able to wander outdoors.
I couldn't resist capturing that juicy bottom lip. :)
The only positive part of this whole thing is that Ellison has an all-natural "plaything" in her yard right now. She thinks it's fun to sit on the tree & bounce since it moves up & down. She needs to enjoy it while it lasts, because Monday they're going to be made into firewood when the tree service guy comes to remove them. 
