or week.
it's moving week, peeps. last week my mom was here all week. it was a good visit, and she really helped me by being able to watch ella when i needed to get moving stuff done. she's also much better at catching all the gritty details that i so love to gloss over.
then, on the weekend, we packed up our clothes, computers and the baby gear, and moved in with neela's parents.
all this week, i've been working on moving too. appointments with 1-800-GOT-JUNK, movers, cleaners, etc. sigh. i'm tired.
but ella totally knows how to make my day. this morning while we waited for the movers to arrive, she ran around the house all hyper at the sight of everything being all out of place. and at all the usually hidden-away-forbidden-to-ella items. like the broom and dustpan. she picked them up, and to my amazement, started sweeping. (this was funny on many levels, #1 the cuteness of her effort to keep the broom upright even though it's twice her height and holding the dustpan in the other hand, and #2 the amazing notion that i sweep often enough for her to mimic it so well. ah motherhood. how we change!) anyway. i was watching and giggling. she stopped sweeping and bent to pretend to push the dirt into the dustpan, and then lifted the dustpan up to look closer at it, and then, before i could stop it, stuck her lizard tongue out and licked it!!!!! EWWWWWW. blech.
on a completely unrelated note: saw deepa mehta's latest movie, "water," finally. so amazing. deepa rocks my world.
