Life

Well school is finally over with for the summer. Although my job still is on going. I decided to paint my classroom. It was three different colors and really needed it. So, I decided since I am a coach and complain all the time about kids not having school spirit, I did my room is school colors. White walls with blue trim, and a mural of NH Indians on the back wall. And my kids better like the mural because it took me 1 1/2 hrs to just do that. And I'm not done!!!

Well daycare is wanting me to pay the full amount even though Ellie will only be going to daycare twice a week this summer. So after getting into it on the phone, I just decided that I was threw with her and moved Ellie. Well, actually Ellie will be going to her full time through June and then starts Jumping Jacks in July twice a week. I really hate to move her because she likes Sarah and Jessie but I just can't deal with them anymore. Plus, moving her is better for me because now I can pick her up after practice and not have to rely on mom so much.

Here lately I just don't know what is wrong with me. I have everything yet I am still depressed. Nothing seems to make me happy these days and I don't know what will fix it. I just feel overwhelmed sometimes with all the house work, school work, and taking care of Ellie, but even when Josh helps, it still doesn't seem to make me happy. I just can't figure it out!! I'm hoping that once I get all this school stuff out of the way, and clean this house then I will rest and feel better. Life just never seems to slow down!!!

"There's Monsters in My Room"

I get woke up by Ellie. This is nothing unusual. She still doesn't sleep through the night constantly. Oh, how I wish that day would come!! Anyways, here lately when I go in to check on her, she will put her face in her hands and lay on my shoulder. When I ask her what is wrong, her response has been "I'm scared."

Me: "Ellie, what are you scared about baby?"
Ellie: "Monsters"
Me: "Oh Ellie there are no monsters in your room!! Mommy would never let that happen."

She then sits up and tells me that "Huxley took my blanket. Elmo go get his blanket."

I guess in order to understand what she just said, you have to have watched the movie "Elmo in Grouchland" In that movie, Huxley is the mean old man that takes Elmo's blanket down to Grouchland. Elmo has to go into Grouchland to get his blanket back. Well, I guess that we have let Ellie watch this movie one to many times. Because now she is waking up in the middle of the night saying things like that.

Well, I assured Ellie that there are no monsters in her room. I noticed that I had her water bottle on her dresser (I use it to wet her "bed head" in the morning), and thought of a plan. I remembered that Debbie made a similar bottle for Gabe when he thought monsters were in his room. So, I took the bottle and walked with Ellie around her room spraying the "NO MONSTERS" spray. I guess it worked because she went back to sleep shortly afterwards.

What an imagination our child already has!!!
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One day last week, Josh went to the Anders' house to play some games. It was already Ellie's bedtime, so I put her to bed and I went to bed shortly afterwards too. Well, not to long after I fell asleep, I got woke up to Ellie saying "Mommy." It is not unusual for her to do that then roll over and fall asleep, so I waited a second and she stopped. About 5 minutes later, she lets out the loudest, scariest scream you can imagine. I mean, it was one of those screams you never want to hear your child scream. It was like she was being ripped from my arms! Of course, I immediately ran to her room. In the time that it took me to run across the hallway, I had a million different scenarios going on in my head about why she was screaming like that.

From simple things like:
1. She had her foot/hand caught in the rails of her bed.
2. She threw something out of the bed like her favorite blanket.

To horrible things like:
3. Someone was in her room trying to take her.
4. The tree outside her room had fallen on the house and onto her.
5. She had managed to fall out of her bed.

I think you get the picture about how horrible the scream was...

Anyways, I get to her room and she is still laying down in bed. I run over to her and say "Ellie, Ellie what is wrong? Mommy's here." All she keeps doing is crying and looking up (kinda behind me). I get the distinct feeling that something, or someone was standing behind me. Creepy I know... So I turn around and...



of course didn't see anything. So I grabbed Ellie up and she just curled up on me and still was screaming!! I turned her lamp on to see if anything was wrong with her physically. Nothing. She is still screaming!! I hold her tight and rock her. Still screaming! So, I kinda get stern with her, and hold her away from me and say "Ellie, this is mommy!! Please stop screaming and tell me what is wrong!!"

Now, she stops screaming. She proceeds to put her face in her hands and fall into my shoulder. She is no longer screaming or crying. When I ask her what is wrong, she tells me nothing. It took about two minutes of rocking her and she was sound asleep again. I laid her back down and went back to bed myself. I felt helpless! I felt like if someone had really been in there, I wouldn't have been able to get to her quick enough. (It now makes me really rethink having her bedroom upstairs or across the house away from us!)

Of course, I couldn't go back to sleep then. I was scared to death! I just wanted to go back and get her and put her to bed with me. Instead, I called Josh to come home. When he came back home and I told him what happened, I couldn't hold back the tears. That scream just stuck with me. I was scared now! I was so upset to hear her scream like that. I never ever hope I hear her do that again!!!

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Tonight, I was trying to get Ellie dressed for bed when she informed me that monsters took her blanket. So, after we got dressed, I took her water bottle and we sprayed her room down with the "NO MONSTERS" spray. I even showed her how to do it and let her spray a few times.

While I was drying her hair, I let her know that those monsters that she sees in her room are more scared of mommy and daddy than she is of them. She says "Monsters are scared of mommy and daddy." I let her know that mommy and daddy will not let anything happen to her and that we have scared the mean old monsters away. She lets me know that "No monsters take Ellie's blanket."

No Ellie. No monsters will ever take your blanket! Mommy and daddy promises!

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Again, what an imagination Ellie has!!!! What am I to do?

Quotes from Ellie

Here are a few quotes that I have been writing down as they happen. Enjoy!



While laying in bed awake at 2am: "Mommy? Mommmmyyyy. I want a pop tart. You understand? You hear me?"

While playing in the living room with me and Josh, Ellie picks up her (I don't know what you call it, you put in the round picture card and you click the side and if you look into it you will see the pictures) anyways, she picks it up and says "Cheese daddy, cheese mommy" then tosses it over her shoulder like it was nothing.

After already having time out for hitting mommy, Ellie tell me "You be quiet mommy" When asked if she wants time out again, she pauses then says "No I don't think so"

"You go hide" Which actually means, you count and come find me later.

Dances and sings on key, "Someday my prince will come" from Snow White.

"Happy Mother's Day mommy!" Awww, just broke my heart!

"Huxley, don't take my blanket, don't take elmo's blanket. I go get my blanket, Huxley took my blanket."

While in the car on our way to Walmart: Ellie: "Mommy where are we going?" Me:"We are going to Walmart to get some groceries." Ellie: "Nope, we go see Grandby and Uncle Cody." Me: "No, we are going shopping." Ellie: "Oh...okay mommy."

"Where is Cartman?" (which is what Josh calls Carter Kelly)

While the doctor was drawing blood from Ellie's toe, I told here "It will be okay. It will all be done in a minute." When he was finished, Ellie crawled back into my lap and said "It all done. We go to Ellie's house."

Easter 2010

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Easter 2010

We had a wonderful Easter this year. Ellie was finally able to hunt Easter eggs and decorate them. She loved it! She had so much fun trying to find the eggs before Gage did. While at Grandmaw Foster's, Ellie and Gage played outside almost all day. They played with their new bats and balls, some frisbees and bubbles! It was a beautiful day! Maybe next year will be just a pretty and warm! Here are a few pictures from that day.

Seeing her trying to pop the bubble? Notice the tongue sticking out?

Here is who she gets it from!!

Baby Colt enjoying watching Gage and Ellie playing

Beautiful Grandmaw Foster

Hunting Eggs

Ellie decided to play before we got her dress off her. She is just like me!

Don't remember what she was crying about, but isn't that just the saddest face you ever saw?

Gage and Ellie finally took a good picture together

Before we left for church. This was the best picture she would let me have.

Random Craziness.

I know that it's been a while since my last post, but it has been crazy! Softball has kept me very busy! But it's almost over with and Ellie gets me all afternoon. Here are just a few pictures that I have happened to capture in the last couple of weeks.

We decided to play around one night before we blow dried her hair.

This is now my favorite outfit! Doesn't she look so cute?

Gulf Shores 2010 Part 2

We had a blast at Gulf Shores this year. Ellie absolutely loved the beach!! Last year we couldn't even get her to stick her hand in the sand. This year... we couldn't get her out of the sand!! In fact, we had to promise to buy her a sand box for the house just to get her in the car to leave and come home!! Wow. Is she spoiled or what?

Let me set these pictures up for you. On Tuesday, the girls didn't play until late that afternoon so we had all morning to play in the sand and in the water. Josh was feeling under the weather, so Ellie and I couldn't help but go outside on such a beautiful day. I hated leaving him behind, but it gave him much needed peace and quiet. Anyways, there wasn't hardly a cloud in the sky! It was probably 70 degrees or better and the wind was somewhat calm that day. In front of our condo, we had these tiny tide pools that built up when the tide came in over night. This was just perfect for Ellie to play in by herself. Most of it only came up to her knees, but some parts came up higher. The water was freezing to me, but Ellie never skipped a beat. She just walked through it like she was walking through air. She also made friends with some college girls that said in our condo building. Apparently we haven't stressed "stranger danger" to her yet. Anyways, she walked up to them and said "I'm Ellie. Ellie the princess." They laughed and she started to pick up sand with her shovel. Knowing what she just did to me (pour sand on me with her shovel) I quickly told her "NO NO". They talked to her for a few minutes and Ellie tried to talk back. She was so excited about playing in the sand, she could hardly talk straight. It was really cute. Well, let me just get to the pictures. That's what you really want to see anyways.

Daddy and Ellie on the balcony.

Ellie playing in the sand

Finally a picture of her face!!

Digging for something

Here is where she is pouring sand on me and the camera. I, of course, didn't realize that was what she was going to do until she already did it.

She finally discovered the water

I guess she was hot and needed to cool off

Just playing around

Just walking up and down the beach


Her favorite spot!


That night in the room watching her DVD

Well, the next day the girls lost out in the first game of the tournament. So we had most of the day to play in the sand. It was really cold because it had rained all night and morning. We really wanted to get her out again since that was our last full day there. We bundled her up in her sweats and us in ours and we ventured out. The wind was cold and so was the water. Again, that didn't stop Ellie. She acted like that water was bath temp. Josh and Ellie built a sand castle and had such a great time.

Daddy laughing at Ellie.


The castle!

Some random action shots...

See how wet she got? Remember its cold!!