Weekend At Ellie's

Dear Abigail,

As if we don't spend enough time with Ellie during our normal weekend activities, this past weekend, we spent the WHOLE weekend at her house!!! See, Daddy had some friends come into town on Thursday to watch March Madness. Every year they go to someone else's house and part of going to that person's house is there are not children's (or wives, for that matter) to mess up their fancy basketball watching guys weekend. So, the wife usually packs their bags and heads to the grandparents or wherever. This year, the guy's weekend was at our house. Naturally, we'd head to Munford BUT, your first soccer game was on Saturday, and, well, we weren't missing that! So, we decided to still let Daddy have his weekend and just go hang out with Ellie and Aunt Steph and Christopher! (Uncle Jaybee got to play with Daddy and his friends.). So Friday night, we (me, you and Kate) met Aunt Steph and Ellie and Christopher at Mexican. And Miss Leigh joined us because she had NO kids and wanted to experience a different kind of Friday Night Mexican! We let you girls sit in the big girl chairs instead of high chairs and it worked out fairly well, other than Ellie falling backwards and busting her head on the hard concrete floors... To say the least, you will continue to sit in a high chair :)

After Mexican we headed to Aunt Steph's where you and Ellie (especially Ellie) were super eager to sleep in Ellie's bed together. At literally the very last minute, you decided you'd rather sleep in Mommy's bed (shocker...) and poor Ellie, it just broke her heart. And you could not care less. I know you didn't mean to be so mean, but it was so sad seeing Ellie just ask, cry 'But why won't she sleep in my bed?'!!!

Thankfully, we all made it to bed sooner than later and all was forgotten by morning. A lot of that had to do with the fact that it was St. Patrick's Day!!! And, with St. P Day comes everything green!!!!

We started off with green pancakes and green milk...

You girls loved it! And for lunch we had green hummus! And for dinner, you had to eat all your green peas in order to get green cookies!!!!

I'll admit, I was supposed to bring green ice cream for dessert, but forgot it in our freezer, so we (read: Aunt Steph) whipped up some green cookies and we were all happy again! You loved eating green stuff, but when I was explaining St. P's Day to you on Friday, you said "Well, can we make everything pink because I like pink and pink is my favorite color?" My response was "There are 365 days in a year. 364 of those days are nothing but pink in our house, so we can spare one day to be green." You just stared at me...

Anyway, so St. P's day brought on some interesting activities... First, you HAD to have your hair in pig tails like Ellie's. Unfortunately, as cute as you are, they just do NOT look at cute on you as they do Ellie. But it was a special day, so I let you wear them. For an hour...

After breakfast we had a little loving on your baby cousin time...

And then we had a dance off. Or at least you and Ellie did.

You girls love to dance and it always seems to end with the two of you spanking your bottoms. Hmmm.... Anywho. As you can see, you also had a little play time in the bird bath, hence the water all down your shirts... But it was a beautiful morning and so nice to sit and watch the 2 of you have a good ole time.

After the dance off and lunch, we got you cleaned up because we had to go to your first soccer game ever! We were all super excited and I even asked Ellie if she wanted to go with us. So we got all geared up, got the car pack, and off we went. Oh, about 1.3 miles away from the field and the bottom falls out of the sky, or at least it started raining like no other. I knew it was going to be canceled, but the good news was you and your sister were both sound asleep in the car!! So I kept on driving, and driving. Oh, and Ellie was totally occupied with the movie. So finally (an hour later) you woke up and I had to break the news to both of you that there was no soccer game, BUT, I surprised you by taking you to the indoor playground thing. Woo-hoo!!! Except we piled all out of the car and into the park when I realized I left my wallet at Aunt Stephs... So then we got all back in the car (which you 2 were not happy about) and then Uncle Jaybee had a brilliant idea and asked if we could give a card over the phone! Sha-zam!! It worked!! So we unloaded again and played like crazy!! I had Kate with me (and nothing else, as in a stroller or a baby bjorn or anything) so I couldn't really play (or take pictures) but y'all had fun, for sure!!

After a long day of playing, we headed back to Ellie's and made yummy home made pizza (or well, Uncle Jaybee did!). A bath later and you girls were ready for bed. Unfortunately, you teased Ellie, yet again, with the whole sleep in your bed scenario. She's onto you though because she didn't get too upset this time. However, you weren't exactly a super trooper with going to bed in my bed. But we won't discuss that.

The next morning we all got up extra early, cause why not, and had a delicious breakfast, no eggs for you because you do not like eggs because eggs make you sick because yesterday at McDonald's you got sick when you ate eggs. So you say...

We packed our things and by mid morning we were back at our house. The first thing you said was "But who's going to play with me now?". You love you some friends!!! But Mommy and Daddy had to do. We ended up grilling out scallops (which you LOVED) and pork chops and got to eat them on the back porch (which you LOVED)!

A great weekend of fun and a big thanks to Ellie for letting us crash at their house!!