Once Baby arrives s/he will eventually be sharing a room with his/her big sister, Ella. We have 3 bedrooms, but the third one is downstairs, and I'm just not ready to send Ella down there yet. So we've been working on moving the furniture around to get both Ella's bed and the crib to fit without being in the way. Things are still not where we want them to be for sure yet, which brings us to our preventable accident of the week. We know that tall, heavy furniture with shelves or drawers should be bolted to the wall, and we'd been advised way before Ella was born to be sure that this was done, but was the dresser securely fastened to the wall when Ella decided to open all of the drawers while Mommy was at work and Daddy was switching the laundry downstairs? No, of course not, way to go Mommy and Daddy! Thankfully Ella escaped with only minor scraps and bruises, it could have ended so much differently. This event has really helped motivate us in getting ready for the new baby to arrive, which includes re-childproofing and deep cleaning the house. The nesting has begun. And it's making Ruby nervous. Here's a picture of Ella with her battle wounds under her nose, on the insides of her elbows, and across her legs.
Thursday morning Ella and I went to see Rio at the movie theatre. Our local theatre offers a special showing of kids movies throughout the summer and winter months at a reduced admission price. Ella is free, as always since she is under 3, but I only paid $2 for my ticket. It's nice because you don't need to worry about how your kid is going to handle the movie theatre experience, because everyone else in the theatre is there with their little kids too, who are getting up mid-movie for potty breaks, etc., and if you have to leave because it is too scary, it's okay, because you are only out $2. Ella loved the movie. She had a lot to say about it during the movie, I only caught a few of the words (bird, airplane and puppy), but she just kept going on and on about what she saw and flapped her 'wings' a lot! She sat through all but the last 10 minutes, then she decided she wanted to watch the rest of the movie standing on the floor. It was so cool and dark in there, I almost fell asleep! We both had a great time.
Thursday afternoon we found ourselves at the pool again.
Saturday we stopped by North Liberty Blues and BBQ where Ella and I got to climb into a fire truck. It was a pretty soggy event with all the rain we'd gotten the night before, so we didn't stay long. That night we watched the fireworks from PopPop and Gra Dondee's back porch.
The Johnson Co. Fair started this week. Mom, Ella, Chris and I went down Tuesday afternoon. Our first stop was the food booth. After lunch we walked through a few barns to see some of the animals. Ella named the animals she saw and told us what sounds they made. One of the barns had cows in one half and chickens and roosters in the other half. As Ella was looking at a couple cows she heard a loud "cock-a-doodle-doo," she thought about it for a second before looking at me with the most confused look on her face. It was priceless, and I'm sad to say that I did not get a picture of it. :( It was way too hot to be at the fair, so we got some ice cream and left. Probably our shortest visit to the fair ever.
This little piggy took a nap:
This little piggy tried to eat Ella's stroller wheel:
These were the cows that seemed to say "cock-a-doodle-do":
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