Ellis residue

So how long has it been since the little Duder has been gone-3 weeks? I’m still finding tit-bits of Ellis here and there. A toy in the couch, under the couch, some pictures on the closet wall that was left behind, a jacket in the closet, a sippy cup in the drawer, sniff, sniff (it’s kind of sad)……then today there was the real residue….the oatmeal on the wall and the art work. It’s the stuff you don’t see until you have to turn on all the lights in the house-thanks to daylight savings. I mean the oatmeal was way up high! It had to be flung up there. I really don’t think it was a purposeful attempt to add to the décor, I just think It was just “one of those mornings” and it happened when Ellis was “being creative”. I do appreciate the residue, it makes me think of all the good times El Duder-reno and I had.

PS. Photos are from when Ellis was 9 months old, Love the ‘stash Mike….has it grown back yet?

Let's wrestle

Last night at church Ellis asked me to wrestle. As it was hardly the time or place to wrestle I distracted him with some other less physical game. So tonight I invited him to wrestle, to satisfy that little boy side of him. (Plus it's daddy's orders that we wrestle) We got down in the floor in the family room and "wrestled", at least how mommy knows how to wrestle, which is a lot of rolling around in the floor and tickling. Ellis lasted all of 2 min and then he stood up and said, "I need to catch my breath". I guess mommy wore him out.

I'm Spiderman!

Trick or treating last year lasted an entire cul-de-sac for our little Monkey Ellis. This year when I pulled out the Spiderman costume it was ALL OVER. Since I bought it at a garage sale for $3 I had some minor repairs that needed to happen prior to him wearing it. You try hand sewing something with a toddler climbing all over you. It was finally ready to wear and so I put it on Ellis and he started his parade.

"I'm Spiderman!" "I'm Spiderman!" "I'm Spiderman!" He told everyone he passed on the street, "I'm Spiderman!"

He wore the spiderman "helmet" for a total of 5min and then took it off and would not put it back on. He was the most well mannered trick or treater in the neighborhood. Some generous neighbors would offer him more candy and he would reply, "No thanks I got one." As he left a home and would run into other trick or treaters on their way to the door he would generously say, "It's your turn." So Grand-dad, Mommy and Ellis trick or treated down our street and around the block and when we came back around to our house Ellis trick or treated at home with Grammy who was manning the door. He got to hand out some candy while he was there and then he wanted to keep going so Grammy, Mommy and Ellis went around another block. He would have kept going, but we hadn't eaten dinner and he was starting to pull out the candy and eat it, so we closed up shop and went to mexican food. The atmosphere at Puerta Vallarta was jovial. The videos posted were right before we left to go home... The effects of Halloween sugar. We went to Saturday night service at church tonight and on the way home we passed a house with orange lights and Halloween decor. Ellis, "I see trick or treating". Mommy, "No baby... Trick or treating is over." Grammy, "The candy you got last night has to last all year long." Poor kid.

Back to Life.. Back to Reality.

I appreciated Ellis's blog so much while I was in San Antonio that I asked if I could keep it going now that I'm home, for Mike's sake. He loves it. I'm not usually very good at keeping these kinda things going, but I'm going to try. I got back to Washington last Saturday to a very warm reception from Ellis, but you read about that in Karen's last entry. This week has been busy getting settled back into home life, but this is how well things worked out with Uncle Kevi and Aunt Kiki... Ellis ran right back into daycare with Teachers Willis, Becky and Laquonda (who used to be called capata, but has graduated to Quonda) without a single separation issue. They were all very surprised and pleased. When he started with them in August he had lots of separation issues, but he didn't shed a tear at daycare all week. He also shocked them with his ability to use the potty. Grammy rode the train up on Wednesday and Grand-dad later joined us on Friday for Halloween, but while Ellis stayed home with Grammy she let him run around the house without pants on and he used the potty all day without having any accidents. He also went poop on the potty (for the first time) and had to save it to show me when I got home from work. Big round of high fives all around, some punching dancing and some m&ms. PLUS we ran right out to walmart and bought him some big boy briefs and BOY does he think those are cool. He was so excited he ran across the room and did a huge face plant, quickly looking over his right shoulder to say, "Did you see that?"