A Conversation with Ella #9

While Ella and I were watching The View yesterday this conversation took place:

Me: "Her name is Whoopi."

Ella: "Quinn went poopy?"

Me: "No, that lady's name is Whoopi."

Ella: "Poopy?"

Me: "Whoo Whoo Whoopi."

And then today while watching The View:

Ella: "That girl is Whoopi?"

Me: "Yes!"

A Conversation with Ella #8

Ella: "Me wanta drink coffee."

Me: "Only adults can drink coffee."

Ella: "Me get old, then me drink coffee."

A Series of Unfortunate Events

3:17 A.M. I wake with a start because Quinn hasn't woken up yet since we put him down at 11:00 P.M., I rush into his room thinking something is wrong. He is sleeping peacefully.

3:20 A.M. As I am leaving Quinn's room I hear music and something squeaking almost like an alarm. I realize it's coming from Ella's room. It's her music she turns on to fall asleep to. The mechanics that move the little figures are starting to go bad which is causing the alarm like noise. The music stops and I hear her moving around in her bed. I rush back into my room before she hears me and wakes up.

3:22 A.M. It's too late. Ella comes in saying she can't sleep. Paul volunteers to put her back to bed.

3:45 A.M. Quinn finally wakes up for his next bottle.

3:50 A.M. Before going into Quinn's room I realize Paul is asleep in Ella's room and he needs to get up in several minutes for work. I go in there to make sure he knows this. He does, he set up his cell phone alarm to go off. I end up waking up Ella by going in there.

4:15 A.M. Paul comes in Quinn's room while I am feeding him to let me know he let Max outside because he wanted out. Which means he will be meowing at the door sometime soon and will be waking everyone up until he gets let in.

4:25 A.M. Paul finds Max and lets him back in, then heads out to work.

4:30 A.M. I set Quinn in his bed and as soon as I do I hear Ella coming out of her room again.

4:30 A.M. Ella cries because she wants to sleep in our bed. I give in and let her because I am too tired to fight it. She decides she can't sleep so plays a monkey game on our iPod touch. I fall asleep to the noise of monkeys.

4:30 A.M. - 6:00 A.M. Ella is playing that dang monkey game. I think she may have fallen asleep with it on, but I am too tired to check.

8:30 A.M. When Ella wakes up we discover a huge wet spot from her diaper leaking. At least it's on Paul's side of the bed. Wahahahaha.

A Conversation with Ella #7

Me: "Ella have you seen my computer?"

Ella: "Um, it went to Disneyland."

Apparently it was hidden under a pillow on the couch.

7 Quick Takes Friday: Volume 3

- 1 -

Either Ella has become a teenager at the tender age of 3 or she is going through the terrible threes. I have come to this conclusion because a) she stomps around when she gets mad, b) she yells at me to get out of her room, c) she demands that I do things for her immediately, and d) she is obsessed with wearing lipgloss.

- 2 -

I joined Weight Watchers online and the other day I came to the conclusion that I would only lose 12 pounds in a year. This is how I logically came to this conclusion: I am steadily losing 1 pound a week and there are 12 weeks in a year. Yeah. And so, when I cried to Paul about this he explained to me that I will actually lose 52 pounds in a year. Harharhar. This is what happens to your brain when you are on baby-duty all night 5 days a week. By the way, I am not planning on losing 52 pounds because I would literally look like a skeleton.

- 3 -

Ella and Quinn got their picture taken with the Easter Bunny at the mall the other day. When it was our turn Ella ran up to him and threw herself into his lap giving him the biggest hug ever. I was so surprised by this because she was the total opposite when it was time to get her picture taken with Santa Claus this past Christmas.

- 4 -

Did I mention I am doing Weight Watchers? I am hoping that I will get the hang of it soon because right now I always feel soooo hungry. I think it has to do with previously being pregnant and kind of always eating a ton of food in one sitting.

- 5 -

Quinn gave us his first official smile three days ago. It was the sweetest little smile ever. Also he is extremely strong and is constantly tying to stand up when I have him on my shoulder to burp him. Today he was actually standing up for several long seconds at a time and I swear he knew he was doing it and so kept trying it over and over.

- 6 -

I am obsessed with Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby ice cream, it has chocolate covered pretzels with peanut butter inside of them and it is so so so good. I was going to use my weekly points from Weight Watchers to have some the other day, but to my dismay the store did not have any. I am seriously hoping it hasn't been discontinued.

- 7 -

Quinn's April Fool's joke he played on me was to make me think he could drink an entire 4 oz bottle of milk. When I went to burp him he threw-up the entire content of the bottle all down my back and soaked my hair and the couch cushion. It was probably one of the best jokes ever played on me, and it was played on me by a 7 1/2 week old baby.