Life as a Chockley when Daddy is Away

So Phillip left on August 4 for a ridiculous amount of time and Ella and I are trying to stay busy while he is away. Today we headed to the pool in our Parco with Ella's bestest friend Ben (and his daddy Josh) or as Ella so affectionately refers to him, "Beeeeee." In a great Tennessee drawl of course! Anywho, the pool guy, that Phillip has so kindly spoken of in previous posts, requires that everyone wear swim caps in the pool. Phillip and I will try most anything to avoid real swim caps and we have opted for bandannas-his a classic navy and mine is Strawberry Shortcake, my longtime idol. However, as you can see Ella is way too cute in her hot pink swim cap, and amazingly enough she actually wears it and seems to like it. I often find her trying to put it on herself.














After a swim Ella is of course STARVING! So we headed in for some classic Spaghetti O's and then our usual fruit cup. Unfortunately, it wasn't the usual...I accidentally grabbed the mixed fruit cup instead of peaches. Well, you can obviously see the displeasure in my precious daughter's face. Ahhhh...fun times! Wish you all were here to join in on the fun...actually we just wish anyone was here.










My favorite moment today was when "Bee" and Ella were in the bathroom with me and "Bee" decided to turn the bidet on and the water shot all the way across the bathroom and into the hallway. Ever since the hot water heater was replaced we've had some incredible water pressure so it was literally shooting into the air and I was wet, Ella was wet and none to happy that "Bee" had turned it on, and "Bee" was wet and just scared to death, mainly due to the fact I couldn't stop laughing. Then every time "Bee" tried to escape the scene he would fall down into the puddle of water on the slick marble floors. Hysterical I tell you!!! I wish I could have reenacted it for the camera!