Well today is my 2nd day of Ella-sitting. I’m here for the entire week as Ella’s regular babysitter has gone on a vacation (lucky her!). Ella’s been great for me so far. I guess because she doesn’t get to see me very often, she associates fun things with me. So keeping up with tradition, Ella and I went to the mall yesterday where we ended up walking the toy aisles at Target, and even played with their life sized robot pony (scary huh?). I even got her out of the toy aisles without any crying! We had Jamba Juice and went to Barnes and Noble yesterday too. Between the very active toddler, 3 puppies and waking up at 6:30am, I was exhausted last night.

This morning I realized I had a bunch of work to get done today, so I decided to try to get Ella to nap twice (since she still has a cold, I think I have a good chance of making that happen). We went out to breakfast and when we got home she went right down for a nap, YAY! She’s already been down for an hour! Hopefully this afternoon will go as smoothly as this morning.

As for the rest of the week .. I’m trying to come up with things to keep us busy. I signed up for a free class at Gymboree tomorrow morning. The Konickis and Donalds will be down here tomorrow afternoon, so hopefully we’ll get to hang out with them on Thursday.  I’m trying to decide if she’d enjoy something like the Young At Art Museum or maybe a trip to MODS.

Well time to get my work done, not sure if she’ll sleep much longer! If you have any fun suggestions for hanging out with a toddler .. leave me comments!