Cousin Justin as President

Tonight we were sitting at the dinner table with Cousin Justin eating some good grinder sandwiches. We were talking about the election and the fact that Ella's school will be closed that day. They are going to have a pajama day at daycare along with bowling and a pizza party. The consensus among the adults at the table was that we wanted to go to daycare too.

So we were talking about politics with Ella; Justin asked her who she would vote for. She said "Obama". Of course, he gave her a little grief and she asked him who he would vote for; he said "myself". Ella told him he couldn't do that and Justin asked why not. Ella told him he can't vote for himself as president since he's not 35 years old. Just a small but stinging burn from from a 6 year old who has a better command of the political process than most of us. We were so proud :).

Boys

Car Ride Home from first day of school.
When I was on the playground, I played with the girls because I don't like the boys. The girls say I have a crush on Landon because he hit me but I don't. I would just tell him I did. Riley likes Ben. She has a crush on him because he kicked her but she won't admit it. I like Landon but I don't love Landon. Hannah loves Ben because she hit him at recess. For real.

And for some reason daddy became very sad. I don't know why. He's weird.

Ella was tying her shoes this a.m. when I overheard the following:

"Ahhhh no. One of my shoe laces is dead."

Here are some more of my vacation pictures.

This is how I kept from getting sunburned...just kidding - my dad buried me in the sand on our last day at the beach. I had so much fun at the Outer Banks in North Carolina.

Field Trip to the Alpaca Farm

I picked up Ella and lil 'E today from daycare. Ella came zooming down the hall, all smiles when I asked her how her day was. She stopped in her tracks, looked at me and said "Not good...I got kicked by a llama." She is hysterical.

I wiat on a thia and i got to patu a hyoucab and i got soum hyoucab earg
and it wau fun
love eleanor

(ella wrote this all on her own and even posted it. translation is: "I went on a vacation and i got to pet a horseshoe crab and I got some horseshoe crab earrings and it was fun.")

PS - she wants to be referred to as eleanor now :).