3 Month Birthday!

Happy 3 month birthday Ellen!!

Eat Play Sleep

This was a very big week for us.  Lacee went back to work the Tuesday after Memorial Day and Ellen had her first day of school on Friday.  We decided not to do both things on the same day and that turned out to be a great decision.  It would have been way too hard on us to do both on Tuesday.  Luckily, Cathy and Brittany came down on Monday and stayed for the week to help us ease into our new routine.  We all woke up early in the mornings and Cathy had her instructions of our Eat, Play, Sleep schedule.  Lacee had bottles made up for Ellen and she actually did pretty good drinking three 4 oz. bottles like we had hoped, as well as maybe a 4th partial if needed.  We wanted to make sure this was do-able before we insisted that the DayCare ladies could do it.  Cathy, and Brittany, were tons of help!  Thanks guys!  And Lacee seemed to ease back into her work schedule pretty well.  But the real trauma came Friday morning when we had to turn loose of our baby girl to the loving women at Town & Country Montessori school.  Not that Ellen ever missed a beat, she did great!  And the ladies at the school were great too.  Very caring and very accommodating to us.  But we were sad.  And it was quite a sending off party for Ellen too.  Me and Ellen drove my car as I was on my way to work, Lacee drove her car as she left for work, and Cathy and Brittany came in their car as they were hitting the road to go back to Clovis (or whatever their next adventure was.  I think the lake).  And there we were, all of us in the parking lot of the school saying Bye to Ellen with tears in our eyes.  We even all went inside to give to the ladies Ellen's bag of personal things and each gave our own recommendations of how to calm her, how to put her to sleep and just explain in general what things make her smile.  Turns out we didn't need to do any of that.  She was in very capable hands and cooperated with everybody at the school.  Lacee and I picked her up that afternoon and she had made straight A's!  She ate, she slept, and she played.  Just like we asked her to.