The Dreaded Phone Call

While I am extremely tired and ready to retire for the day, I know I SHOULD write – so I will. Today I got a phone call from daycare – Ms. Toni – who left a message saying, “I’m calling your cellphone because it’s not an emergency BUT……I wanted to tell you that Ella bit somone again today, actually she bit me….AND..it broke through my jeans and actually broke skin!” Hmm….well I am happy I missed that call, how embarrassing. I honestly have no idea how to respond to something like that. Apparently she thought Ella was going to give her a hug and love and instead just bit her in the leg. Needless to say, tonight we made an apology card for Ms. Toni.

Last week (Thursday) we had parent teacher conferences, yes even at a year and a half. In the beginning I thought they were going to be a waste of time, what can they honestly tell me that I don’t already know?!? However, I am eating crow now because I really look forward to each meeting and learn a lot of things that I didn’t know. Ms. Toni shared a lot of humorous stories with us i.e. Ella helps the younger kids learn their sign language by physically putting their hands together for them to make the motions. Or – Ella is very into routine and was very upset that one of the other daddies started to bring his little boy 10 minutes early which meant that they had to wait to go to breakfast, which did not make Ella happy – go figure, don’t mess with that girls food!

We also go over typical developmental things for kids in her age range. Everything was right on track but they were a bit concerned that she may be behind the other kids in speech development. Currently Ella only says Mama and Hi clearly. She tries other words like Narley (random I know), more, milk, sorry, etc.

She is extremely good at repeating and mimicking sounds – she is just not good at physically producing the words. So we are going to have her observed by a speech pathologist just so we can make sure she stays on track and doesn’t fall farther behind. I have no doubt in my mind that she will be fine – she is a strong little fighter and doesn’t let anything stand in her way.

On Friday last week we had our first daycare fieldtrip to the zoo. Ella loves the zoo and making all the animal noises, so Joe and I both took the morning off to go along and see Ella enjoy her time with her friends. Ella was a bit confused in that fact that all of her friends from daycare actually didn’t live at daycare – it was pretty funny. She acted as if, “Hey – how did you guys know I was coming here? And…how do you know my parents?” Overall, I think everyone had a great time, we especially enjoyed riding the carousel for the first time. I think it’s the first time I have seen Ella emotionless – she just stared the entire time, as if she were on drugs. Here are a few pics from the day.

Top Pic: Hans, Ella, Elliot – patiently waiting for the tiger to come.
Third Pic:  Jacob, Hans, Ms. Eva, Ella, Anabelle, Elliot, Jenna, Ms. Toni, Carter
Fourth Pic: Ella’s first carousel ride with daddy.

BTW – I have not forgot that I promised to continue Ella’s story – and I will, just not now.