"The Business"

This is a picture of Ella giving us what we refer to as "the Business!" It made me wonder if this is what daddy and I look like to her most of the time...? Ah, terrible two's? She's definitely her own woman these days as I think of her the other night "playing" in her closet when she was supposed to be sleeping. (Mommy's Christmas present to herself was an elpha system for Ella's closet to organize all her things) So she had taken all her pretty hats and shoes off the neat shelves and was playing dress up! How can you be upset when they are that cute? Ella had a visit from the Binkie Fairy on Jan. 10th and in its place she got a Dora sticker book with 160+ stickers of Dora in every season. (Thanks dad) It became her new security blanket for the following few days; going to bed, school and everywhere else with her but that has since faded. With the binkie days behind us, we are hoping to lose the diapers here shortly too. She was promoted to a new classroom at the end of last week and some of the kids are potty trained already, so we're hoping that with this reinforcement at school we will be able to make this transition soon. Avery just received his 2nd 9 weeks report card on Friday and he's doing exceptionally well - again, so very thankful. His progress in 9 weeks is pretty amazing and we're very excited about his new "take home readers" that started last night. He told me to circle "too easy" for his book and he wants a challenge. Hooray! He still says he doesn't like school and it's boring but he is doing well so we leave it alone. And of course laugh when he tells me in the car line one morning, "When I'm President I am going to make a law that no one goes to school!" Yep, in his own words... yikes.