Roaming Home from Rome

A week home from our venture to Rome and we're almost all rested up and recovered, mostly because we all successively came down with a cold - starting with Ella - within minutes of our return, hurray!! Actually, we were insanely glad that she began the nasty hacking cough at HOME and not in Rome where we would have had the extra adventure of trying to find a doctor if things had gotten ugly, aah, too bad, sounds like vacation fun. As usual, though, she was a tough gal and wrung the cold out of her body in a few short days and has just had that cute lingering snotty nose ever since, re-initiating our family love-affair with the booger-snorker (if you don't know what this is, it's probably because all the people you know can blow their own nose, hurray for you). Aaah, just picture it, a lovely relaxing evening preparing for bedtime, filled with the sounds of baby screaming as we try to clean out her nose to HELP HER TO BREATHE - well, if you'd just go ahead and blow your own nose like a grown-up we'd happily skip this torture session, but nooooooo, she insists on being developmentally correct and not having the motor skills to complete such a simple task - oh well, have it your way princess, back to the arms-pinned down, purple-faced crying, snot wiping - hip, hip, hooray! Poor baby Ella : )

Aside from wading around in all of Ella's tears and boogers, we're settling back into our routine just fine and trying to sort through our pictures of our trip. We did really well overall - Ella learned to take naps in the backpack carrier and we got to see all the major sites in Rome, Naples, Pompeii, and Capri - not too shabby for our first big trip. By the end of the week Ella was definitely starting to miss her big naps in her crib and we were starting to miss not walking ALL day, so we were happy to be home when the week was over, but we didn't string ourselves out too bad, just bad enough for a little head cold.

We have some funny stories to tell about our travels but not the time to tell them right now this second, so, instead we shall regale you with a few minutes of Ella TV - that's right, I managed to download the most recent video of Ella onto the computer and get it all uploaded, right here, on the blog for your personal entertainment! The only problem is, when I rewound the camcorder I discovered we've only videotaped about TEN minutes of her since we've moved to Italy - ooops! So, I'm on a mission to capture some more amazing footage, but for the time being you can have these two one-minute clips of Ella saying hi & ciao, and of her reciting her ABC's, naked (after bath), which I'm hoping doesn't cause some weird child pornography issue, oh well, enjoy the cute dimply butt-shot. More to come soon... (not more butt shots)... (well, maybe, who knows?)


HI Ella!




Naked ABC's