A little update

It's been awhile since I last updated. Things have been kinda slow around here, so not much to report.

In February, Grandma and  Papa came down on Valentine's Day. We had fun making dinner in their tiny hotel kitchen and watching Ponyo. Ella loved it a lot, because their hotel room was right next to the play ground, and of course she loves her grandparents too.

Our church started doing Saturday night services and that has been quite the change for our family schedule, but much needed now that Chris is working on the weekends. We had some trouble with the nursery staff understanding what gluten is and what snacks Ella can have. Most of the people in the children's area know of her food issues, but with the new service there were new volunteers that didn't know the situation. After voicing my concerns that problem was taken care of and now Ella can enjoy snacks again at church.

We've been very lucky this winter and haven't had any major sickness. We just all finished having a bad 24-48 hour stomach bug, praise God that it didn't last as long as last years. This has been the first year that Ella and I have been gluten (and other food allergy free) all winter long. I think that might of had something to do with the fact we hardly got sick.

Other news is that we've been looking into preschools for Ella. We want to home-school and nothing has changed our mind about that, but Ella is so smart that we thought she might get more out of a preschool then what we can do for her right now. Her brain is about a year ahead, but her body and attention spans is still of a 2 year old. We thought that maybe going to school 2 times a week might help her. We did find one school that we really liked, but it's a private school. They don't cost as much as some other preschools, but it would still be a pretty penny in the end. They said if we could get Ella potty trained by fall they would move her up a level to the 3 year old class, instead of keeping her in with the toddlers because she will be 3 after the semester starts. We like that idea and it gives us some motivation for potty training, but we are exploring other ideas.

One idea is doing a dance or gymnastics class. She loves to dance and she is such a little monkey that she would enjoy doing either. We just have to find the right one and for the right price. We did find one gym that teaches some basic life and community skill lessons with their gym lessons. They also offer home-schooling pricing which is a plus!  So much to think and pray about over the summer as we try to find what is the best thing for our smart little Ella. She has plenty of time before we need to get really serious about school, maybe one more year. We did put her on a waiting list of a home-schooling group that works with the best charter school in town. It is so good that even for the home-schooling program you need to be on a list. For the normal school you need to get your kids on the waiting list on the day they were born. So we will see if we even have a change of getting in.

So that is all from our family.