Ella and I finally made the
trek down to St. Louis to visit the Parks and the
Chacks. We left last Thursday after our morning toddler gym class. Ella was a rock star in the car thanks to a nap, some books and the St. Leger's portable DVD player. She watched Snow White since that's the only cartoon I own. Here she is at Bob Evans where we stopped for lunch. That was the first time I went out to eat with just Ella and it was kind of fun.
We stayed with the Parks and
Raegan and Ella took to each other right away. Ella loved all of her toys and
Raegan was super patient with Ella and liked helping her.
Kellie was pretty proud because she got Ella to take a few TINY sips of milk from one of their
sippy cups but as you can see here, the victory was short-lived.
Here's Ella trying to relive her babyhood...
Raegan is very polite and whenever I would ask her if I could take her picture she would reply, "No thank you."
The next morning we headed to the park with the Parks!
Sadly, I only have a few pics of baby Morgan from the park. She is such a sweet, happy baby who just goes with the flow.
After lunch we stopped at Von
Mauer.
That night we had dinner at the
Chacks and the kids went to bed early so I didn't get any pics of the
Chack kids. When we got back to Kellie's house,
Raegan helped Ella with her coat. As my sister likes to say, Ella looks like she was rode hard and put away wet. It was about ten at night in these pics.
The kids were all so busy that this is the one shot I could grab of the four of them together. 
Doesn't George look like he's doing some major shit-talking? 
Ella would not get out of this truck. 
We drove home straight after the children's museum and Ella was so tired that she slept the first 3 hours. She probably would have kept sleeping but I had to stop for gas. For the next 2 hours, I handed her back chicken mcnuggets (not proud) as she watched Snow White. She was fantastic the whole way home. 
