Hi El!
As I see you and Will each day, I am in awe of how
beautifully you both are growing.
There are moments when I secretly wish ‘time’ would freeze, but that
thought always, and quite quickly I might add, disappears when I realize that
then there would be no future “Ellie-isms” or “Ellie-characters” or
“Ellie-talk” to name a few. Your
personality is truly one-of-a-kind El, and I know I’ve said this many times but
you really do keep us on our toes!
Watching you grow and mature is a real joy, as well as an experience.
Final Thought: Don’t grow too quickly Ellie. Enjoy each moment that life has to offer. Your life is your garden Ellie. Imagine it, explore it, create it, have
fun with it, and most important… make it beautiful!
Ellie, this week’s blog idea came from our time spent
together designing a new craft.
Yep… a garden, but not the real kind (you should know by now that I am
the queen of plastic flowers… especially outdoors!). Anyway, we went to Michael’s and bought a 2-foot long block
of green Styrofoam, lots of popsicle sticks both long and short, readymade felt
flowers, miniature bumblebees and ladybugs, paint, glue, and plastic insect
critters. After setting up our craft
shop in the basement, we started painting some of the short sticks in your
preferred choice of colors (pink, green, red, white and brown) for the garden
fence.
We painted about a handful
of them before switching to the longer sticks which we planned to use for stems
and painted them one color, green (of which somehow got onto the carpet even
though we had a 5’ x 5’ plastic tablecloth laid down). Your comment was, “Oh Mimi you know
accidents happen.” My
comment was, “I know El, and I’m so glad we thought to buy Washable Paint! Oh and let’s not bother Poppy with this
tid-bit of information either!” So
we then spread the popsicle sticks out, as they needed about an hour drying
time. Good thing because you were
ready to take a break and play something more exciting… like Pirates (I am not
too sure that Poppy would be thrilled with us using the basement couch as a boat
so we might want to keep that to ourselves also Ellie!). But it did make bouncing on and off of
it easy and fun to attack each other with our homemade paper-towel swords! I loved how you spoke pirate lingo the
whole time too, “Arghhhhhhhhh!”
And me seeking out the little plastic gold treasure balls you kept
hiding certainly added to a gazillion giggles! Satisfied with your pirate performance, you decided it was
time to go back to working on the garden a bit. So we glued some of the fence pieces together and the felt
flowers to the stems. And then you
proceeded to jam the popsicle sticks into the Styrofoam with no rhyme or
reason. Once finished, you stepped
back and together we admired the first stage of your garden. It will now be up to you to decide when
we will add more accessories to this beautiful handmade creation of yours!
Watching this garden of yours grow over time Ellie will be
such a wonderful joy as each ‘moment’ that goes into it with your little hands will
also give us a story.
Watching both you and Will grow on a daily basis is also a wonderful joy
of mine. What I see in your
beautiful garden of life Ellie is a little girl who is learning kindness,
compassion, patience and a sense of adventure. You are growing beautifully El, may you continue to do
so! Each of your ‘moments’ is
always a story. A best seller I
might add!
Love you arghhhhhhh little Ellie-mate!
Mimi
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