The World of the Working

Erika and I made it back to work this week. It's hard getting back into working mode after 3 weeks off. I forgot how to teach, I had forgotten a couple of my students names (luckily the finger pointing to call on a kid worked for a day or two...), but it was nice to be out of the house. My only complaint was that after two weeks of being locked in our house, I felt like I was finally enjoying my vacation when we had to get back to the real world. Oh well... thus is parenthood.

Ellen's been running around like crazy. She's stopped keeping her hands at ready while walking around, and she's even starting to get the "toddler" body shape. She's getting so big... she's even got her own purse now!

Erika had taken a series of photos with Ellen on Saturday. There were ones that turned out better than this one, but I thought this one looked like she's annoyed with mom, a look that we might be seeing more of when she's a teenager.

And finally Ellen has discovered that she fits into this ottoman that was Erika's Christmas present from me. She likes to be picked up in it and flown around the room like it's a carnival ride. We tried to get her to duck down and hide in it. That didn't go too well.

I just realized that she's in our least favorite outfit in every one of these pictures (not all taken on the same day). Soooo... here's one more random one where she's not in the same clothes.