Our morning routine

Two of my favorite times of the day are when Maddie is taking her morning nap and when Ella is taking her afternoon nap. Why? Well, in the morning I get to spend time with just Ella for an hour or so and in the afternoon Ella usually sleeps a little bit longer than Maddie so then I get some alone time with just her. I think it's good that they get some one-on-one time, especially since Ella is going through this I need some attention phase right now.

Since Chris has been working at home the past couple of months, as soon as Maddie goes down for her nap, Ella and I go outside and take Cooper for a walk. Shortly after we put Maddie in her crib, Ella chimes in with, "I want to go walking now." Her favorite things to do on our walk is pick flowers and her new favorite is to collect sticks. You would think that we are gathering wood to start a small fire based on the amount of sticks sitting by our front door at the moment. The other challenge we face in the stick collecting, is that Cooper loves a good stick. Therefore, Cooper is constantly trying to pry the sticks out of Ella's hand. Ella finds this rather amusing most of the time. So, their battle for who is going to carry the stick around the neighborhood usually goes on for the entire time of our walk.

I think the best part about our morning walks are when Ella picks out what she is going to wear. Below are two fine examples;

Project Runway season 23 watch out - I think we have a future stylist in the making!

Festival food

I think the girls have picked up their dad's liking of food that can only be found at a festival. We have been to two outdoor festivals the past two weeks and Ella has already sampled kettle corn, a pork sandwich, lemonade, fresh cut potato chips, and a hot dog. Her favorite by far is the lemonade. But she hasn't tried a funnel cake or a corn dog yet so that could change. We do have one more festival that we are going to go to at the end of the month so we have to save something for that outing. I don't know, the way she guzzles down that lemonade, I really don't think anything is going to top that for awhile.

Here are a couple of pictures for the Inman Park Festival that we went to on Sunday. The girls were so good which kind of surprised us since we were there for three and a half hours. As soon as we got them in their car seats to come home, they crashed.