Football kickoff

Gamecock football kicked off this past Thursday night and Ella got us in the mood with some of her cheers! She is really into this year...I think it has something to do with the pom-poms. We went to have lunch with Mimi on the day of the game and we were sitting in the restaurant, not even talking about the game, and she just yelled out, "Go Gamecocks" as loud as she could. We're so proud!

Candy at the playground

One of Ella's favorite things to do is to visit the playground in our neighborhood. It is just right up the street from our house. After naptime, she likes to take her snack and eat it at the playground before she slides down the "curly" slide.

Children's Museum

We went last Thursday to visit the new children's museum before school started back. We went with my cousin Kelly and Gabriel and had the best time. Ella was so excited. I could hardly get her to stay at one exhibit for 5 seconds before she was off to the next one. Her favorite areas were the farm and the hospital. She loved the stomach because it had a slide of course (and it came with sound effects...I'll let you think about that one...) and for some reason she liked putting her hands in the pig trough (which had plastic slop in it). Go figure! We could have spent all day there!

Little Diva

One of Ella's favorite things to do is to play with my makeup bag in the mornings while we are getting ready. She takes each article of makeup and every brush out and examines it and pretends she is putting it on her face. The cutest is when she pretends to curl her eyelashes. I am usually pretty fast with taking the things away that she can "do some damage with" but I don't know what happened on this particular morning. Before I knew it, she had drawn all over herself with my eyeliner. I had to snap a pic! Then she started crying and saying "Get it off, get it off"!

Fun with Daddy

Scott had to work out of town this week so Ella and I decided to go with him. We found lots of fun things to do. We went swimming and shopping and then we found a cute park downtown that had rides we could enjoy. We rode the train, carousel, cars and boats. She was not too thrilled with the boat as you can see from the picture. We went to dinner and dessert every night once Scott got off. It was really a vacation for me! No cleaning or cooking and I took a nap almost every day!! Nap? What is that? I haven't had one of those in...2 years! We really did have fun and enjoyed our time with Daddy.

Emma Cate turns 4!

Emma Cate had her 4th Birthday party yesterday and we had so much fun! We bounced and slide down the slide and danced. The theme was popsicle, since Emma loves them so much and we had our own individual cakes in the shape of popsicles. Too cute! Then we had real popsicles to go along with our cake. Happy Birthday to you, Emma Cate!

4th of July

We had a nice July 4th holiday weekend. We had a Lowcountry Boil and Oyster roast with my family on Friday. We got to play with Aidan's new puppy, a Chocolate Lab. Her name is Shayla (which he named himself), but he calls her Shay. She is so sweet and very calm and Ella just loved her. She loved playing catch with her. Scott was on call so Ella and I headed to the lake for the day on Saturday at his parent's place. Then we came to have dinner with Scott and we had hash...our favorite!