Rough Week

The week started off we me opening the pantry door on Ellie's foot. I didn't know she was that close to the door.

Later that night, Ellie put her finger in the door at the same time that Christian was closing the pantry door!

Side note: I was at the dentist when this happened. I texted Christian to let him know I was on my way home. He texted me back with "ok, smashed finger on this end." I texted him back, "is it broke?" He sent me, "heck yeah, all 4!" I was pulling in the garage when I got this message! I was thinking...well we will be in the emergency room tonight. I flew into the house and he was standing in the kitchen just a laughing and Ellie was standing beside him with her one finger in the air! He thought he was sooo funny! Men!!

Not quite sure how she got this cut on the bottom of her big toe!

Then yesterday she got an "egg" on her head! You can kind of see it on her forehead in this picture! Her teacher, Ms. Tracy, said she was spinning around and then all of a sudden she fell and hit her head on the ground!

We are hoping it gets warm and stays warm soon. It is our spring/summer ritual to go outside every afternoon. We were outside yesterday enjoying the nice weather! Ellie drove me around in her Mustang! Last summer, I was driving her around! It was a lot of fun!

We were walking into the house yesterday afternoon and all of a sudden Ellie started saying, "I am princess!" I asked what she said. "I am a princess." Well, she is definitely mine and Christian's princess, but I am not sure where she got it from! Haha!!

Working Out with Mommy

Stretching

Push ups with mommy

Lifting weights with mommy

Christian and I started a workout program back at the first of the year. We are able to stay at home and workout. It is nice not having to worry about a gym membership and being away from Ellie. Ellie has started working out with us a little. She stretches and then gets the two pound weights and works out a little.....well for about 30 seconds and then she is bored with it. I have been trying to get pictures of her working out with us for a while, but it is hard to do both at the same time! Christian didn't workout the other night, so we were finally able to get some pictures.

Cute story: The other night I was lying on Ellie's bed with her. I started going over names with her. This is how the conversation went:

Mommy: What is daddy's name?

Ellie: James Christian Fellers

Mommy: What is mommy's name?

Ellie: Stephanie Dawn Fellers

Mommy: What is Braxton's name?

Ellie: Braxton Holden

Mommy: Well, what is Braxton's middle name?

Ellie: Braxton Holden

Mommy: Yes, but his full name is Braxton Gene Holden

Ellie: No, meme said Braxton Holden. It's Braxton Holden!

Mommy: Well, yes ma'am!!

Too funny!

Ellie's New Big Girl Room

Ever since we moved Ellie to a big girl bed, she has asked for a BIG girl bed. Last Sunday, I decided to move the guest bedroom bed in her room. She LOVES it. She hasn't slept better. Of course, I had to get new bedding for her new bed. I found this bedding set on clearance this weekend. The only problem, is that after washing everything I went to put it on her bed. I couldn't get the flat sheet to fit right. I looked at the tag on the sheet and it said Twin! Ugh! I am going to take the sheet back to Macy's tomorrow and hope they have another set where they can just exchange the sheet. If they don't, I am not sure what I am going to do! I made this padded headboard based around one of the pink colors in the comforter. I still have a few things that I need to do like curtains (the black is from the old bedding), hang pictures on the wall, and paint two nightstands white to add next to her bed.

Ellie has watched her movies in our room for probably a year now. Christian is always watching TV in the living room which lives me to go upstairs if I wanted to watch something. Well, for whatever reason I never have, so last weekend I also decided to move a TV into Ellie's room. We had two TV's sitting in our guest bedroom that work perfectly fine. Now Ellie watches her Dora movies in her room. Its great! She has been playing with more of her toys that were to big to drag out of her room. Best of all, the mess stays in her room instead of ours, and I get to watch what I want to watch!

Updates...

Here is Ellie in her new Dora slippers. She got these for Christmas. She is watching Dora. This is the dazed look that she used to get went she watched Shrek. Now its Dora!!

so tired......

Ellie's cheese face!






Two Sunday's ago, Braxton came to play with Ellie. These two are a complete mess when they get together. They play so hard and so rough! Denise and I just sit back and laugh at them. They are definitely entertaining! Uncle Richard would die if he saw Braxton on the pink bike. I didn't get any pictures of him in the pick helmet!!

Daddy took Ellie to the elementary school by our house this past Sunday, so I could go grocery shopping and finish cleaning the house. He said she did a great job driving. She used to not turn the stirring wheel. She would press the gas and go where it took her. He said she is learning to turn the wheel and drive a lot better.

She is also learning to maneuver her bike more. She could ride her bike last summer, but she wouldn't always steer the best, and she wouldn't use the brakes. Since it has been so nice here lately, we took her out to ride her bike. She was using her brakes and turning like a pro.

Christian took Ellie to her 6 week check-up for her ears. Everything looked good and her tubes were in place! Yay! I think we do have to take her back for a hearing check in the next couple of weeks and then check-ups every 6 months after that. Pray that these tubes stay in place and that she has no more ear infections!!!

Ellie is transitioning into her new class at school. Ellie has always moved to the next class earlier than the other kids. She wasn't supposed to move until she was 3...or closer to it, but she has met all of the requirements for this class. She does have 3 of her best friends moving with her. She will be in the class for 6 months and the other 4 classes for 6 months as well. Then its Kindergarten! Ugh! I cant believe she will be 3 in a few months! She is growing up way too fast!!