The setting: Powderworks Park. It was a perfect Spring day!
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Family members mingle and nibble.
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Gifts! Yikes!
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The coolest Elmo cake ever....
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Ella snacks.
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Ella enjoys dipping...perhaps a little too much!!
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Amy puts funny glasses on Luke. I made sure every kid at the party had a little bag of favors. The glasses were one of those favors.
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Andrea's gift box was too cool to throw away! She decorated the box, rather than wrap it. I'm saving it for her scrapbook.
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Ella dives in to the cake. Everyone else was too involved in stuffing their faces to comment. :)
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A cute picture of Ella and her cousin, Millie. She LOVES Millie!
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We had to drag her away from the playground. This is a girl who loves to play outdoors!
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Auntie gave Ella some very cute dress-ups, including these adorable wings. Note that her shirt reads "Daddy's social butterfly", and there are butterflies on her pants!
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The butterfly flits off to the next interesting flower....
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Playing with a puzzle from Andrea and Clay.
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THE SHINER: the day after her birthday, she fell while walking down a ramp at school, and hit her eyebrow right on the corner of the rail.
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Cheese! Ella pretends many things are cameras. Today, it was her keys. They have a light-up button, so she must interpret that as the flash. Creativity!
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Checking Elmo's heartbeat. She needs a haircut!
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Making sure Teddy's eyes are in working order.
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Concentrating on her latest work of art.
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Tea, Mommy? I gave her a tin tea set for her birthday, and she loved playing with it--gives us a cup after "pouring" something into it, brings us a plate, etc.
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Doing Play-Doh with daddy and mommy.
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I love this picture...life at home! Daddy and Ella play with play-doh, while Teddy provides companionship.
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While organizing our closet (and preparing for a Goodwill run), Ella decided she wanted to explore mommy's old necklace collection.
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First, we put them on and took them off--repeatedly.
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Then we began to organize them by hanging them on a tie rack. Oooh--a curtain of jewels!
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I call this my "Mata Hari" picture...gazing through a curtain of jewels.
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Another look at the Shiner. It looked far worse than it was...she barely noticed it past the first day.
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Ella plays on the guest bed right after I got it set up for Mom to visit.
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She had more fun just rolling around on the bed and being silly...just laughing and giggling.
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Ah, the pure joy of childhood!
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She just cracks us up, this little girl of ours.
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