while playing with Ella and the beetle this afternoon, she decided to grab the beetle with her feet instead of with her hands. i think this may be her super power if she ever finds out that she's a superhero. (her super weapon would be drowning her enemies by drooling on them, but that's for another post)
out of curiosity, i measured Ella's length - she's 26'' (66 cm) tall! that's 95th percentile for 4-month-old babies. that's fine, only that Ella is 3 months old.
she's a tiny little giant, she is.
good news! we finally found a daycare center for Ella. we all like the place, and has an opening for her in September. we visited there twice, the kids seem very happy there, and Ella enjoyed watching them all run around and do stuff -- playing, making music, and singing. we liked the teachers too.
i didn't realize how stressed i was by daycare till just now. but it's done, we gave a deposit, and are very happy with our choice.
The couple who run the "school" came by today to see Ella at her home environment, so that they can tailor her activities and napping atmosphere to her specific needs. they gave us a couple of documents, and a CD with their music.
Ella loved them.
this afternoon we played the CD and danced to the music, and Ella was smiling and laughing and squealing! it made me even happier :D my face muscles hurt from smiling so hard for so long.
one of the things we inherited from chris when he left town, is a small jar of red curry paste. motivated by its rather soon expiration date, i decided to make curry for the first time ever. at least one of us eats curry about once a week at restaurants, so needless to say we like it.
went to the store, bought a few vegetables, put everything in the pot and now we're waiting for the rice to be ready.
mmmm! i think it's got potential.
Ella was playing with her purple elephant, while i tidied up and did things around the house. getting ready to the Sharonim invasion this week.
later on i gave her a cooking lesson, taught her how to make safta Dalia's brownies. it was a good opportunity to talk about fractions (1+2/3 cups is equal to 5/3 cups!) and counting (one egg, two eggs, three eggs, four eggs!).
sorry for not updating in a while. Sandy was visiting for a week, which means that ben and i both got to go to work for full days and actually get stuff done!
thank you so much for coming!!!
i spent the days working, which means that after Ella goes to bed i don't have to feel bad about not working from home. i spent the evenings this past week trying to finish reading Harry Potter #6, so that i remember what it's about when we go to the movie.
i didn't finish the book, but we did go to the movie last night - i had a great time! it seems like we've been going to the movies more now after Ella was born than before. thanks grandmas!!!
i liked the movie a lot, even though they changed stuff relative to the book. some of the editing was good, some necessary to just keep the movie shorter than say a couple of weeks. some was unexpected: they underplayed the role of the half-blood prince though. that was weird, given that that's the name of the movie...
also, it seems like hermione and ron took acting classes during the summer between their 5th and 6th year ;)
