pieces of bree: life lately.

currently we are smack dab in the middle of the terrible three's. just for the record, three's are wayyyyy worse than two's. 'this stage sucks' is a direct quote spoken as we were leaving in and out burger and ella was screaming 'i don't love you mom' combined with 'i don't miss you mom.' embarrassing doesn't even compare. i always feel like people are looking at me like i beat my child and so of course she wouldn't want to go home with me. as a great movie, my best friend's wedding, once said, 'this to shall pass,' and if it doesn't....then i'm probably not going to make it to 29.
so other than that...we've been learning with johnny appleseed, watchin' captain grow, makin' donuts (so fun!), going to the park, which by the way, has 3 new slides with a bouncy big fish (ella's words not mine), coloring with new sidewalk chalk which ella was ecstatic about, and going for walks.

side note:: this past week has been a major break through week for us. the captain has began to sleep ALL night. his routine is as follows: between 9:15 and 9:30 he takes his bath, eats, then sleeps. and his sleeps continue til about 6:30 or 7am. it only (and that only is a facieous one) took ella 5 months to sleep all night...high five to the caps for doin' it in half the time. and not to leave out honest ella. yesterday at breakfast i found this...