Home Front Update, Day 1

Sara’s in San Francisco starting today for the annual ONA meetings (I should say – not just attending, but presenting – Go Sara!!!), so Ella, Sasha and I are holding down the home front. Ella and I stopped by the grocery store on the way home to pick up a few things (you know – hohos, cheetos, twinkies, and other good-for-21-month-old stuff). One of her favorite activities has been to help with putting groceries away – we’ll give a box or can to her and she carries it all across the kitchen and puts it back up on the counter. Even with objects that she KNOWS are for her (e.g., goldfish), she’ll carry them straight over and then come running back for more. No time to waste here, it’s time to put away groceries!

I’m going to have to try to get pictures of her doing this soon, but after the groceries Ella helped out making dinner – washing the broccoli, washing (and eating) the strawberries, and making her own quesadilla. And for her, making dinner seems to equate with a tastier dinner, as she devoured lots of it! After dinner, Ella discovered Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever – I had forgotten just how great that book is. Tons of pictures of animals and other things that Ella’s into – cars, buses, planes, trains, baths. After reading it once, she decided she needed an encore reading in the bathroom while getting her teeth brushed, and wanted a third reading back in her room before I finally told her it was bedtime. Things are quiet now (knock on wood!) – just in time for a group homework conference call!