Nano bugs

Having a computer/science/geeky (I say that with love) husband means your kids will play with things like Nano bugs. Or hex bugs? Not sure what the official title is, but they are little electronic “bugs” that race around a track that you can set up in various configurations. They’re pretty entertaining I have to say. Both girls love them.

What a week

It’s been a week of ups and downs.

Hubby has been gone all week on business trip and I’m so so glad he will be home tonight. I feel for all the single moms or moms whose husbands are gone all the time. Having all the responsibility of the kids all day and night day after day is a lot.

But we had fun. We were really sick of home after Monday’s snow day, so the rest of the week we stayed really busy. I had to get my car looked at (which took an hour that I endured in a small waiting room with three men and my two girls and I hope I never have to do that again), we had Ella’s ballet class, a trip to Target, a visit to Starbucks and some playtime at the library.

It’s funny how everytime I would start to think I’m a really together mom, Ella would spill her drink, or Eva would run behind the counter at the auto place, or I would lose my parking pass at the library. Oy …

But I survived. The chocolate and wine sure helped.

*Sidenote. I love the library.

Pajama day

Yesterday we stayed home all day.

Everyone has runny noses and coughs and is feeling a little blah.

A little candy helped cheer us up.

And staying in our pajamas all day didn’t hurt either.

Funny girl

I’m not going to remember funny things Ella said in a few weeks, let alone as she gets older. So occassionally, I will post a few so we can all enjoy them and I can have them forever…

• Our new fridge has an alarm that goes off after it’s been open for 60 seconds. Ella takes this alarm very seriously, so whenever it goes off she yells: “Shut the fridge, shut the fridge!!” It’s almost a game now. We do countdowns to prepare ourselves for it.
• Ella got her haircut the other day by a woman who talked about her 3-year-old grandson a lot. Later on Ella wanted to play beauty salon where she styled my hair, complete with cutting noises all while she talked about her funny 3-year-old at home, just like the lady at the salon.
• Ella sat down to make her cousin a birthday card and asked me how to spell thank you. I reminded her she’s making a birthday card not a thank you card and she said, “No! I’m saying thank you for inviting me to your party!” I thought that was very sweet.