Ellis woke up more than early this morning wondering where he was. I put him into bed with me and he fell back to sleep right away (unfortunately I can't say the same for myself). Once mom woke up he played with her and I went back to bed. This is a picture of him playing in the raindrops falling off of the gutter.









Once we were all ready for the day we went downtown to see Bryce's new apt. He lives in a loft right in the middle of downtown. It was really cool, huge old windows and really tall ceilings. Ellis didn't think much of the architecture but he really liked the bike he found in the corner.




After his hands were all greased up Gammy introduced him to Lucky the fish. I guess he didn't think Lucky was a very good name because he just called him Nemo.







Nemo was a great intoduction to our big event for the day. We went to the Newport Aquarium. There even the sharks were "Nemos." There were some really cool exhibits there and Ellis and Michael loved it but my only complaint is that they wouldn't let you take your stroller in. My mom and I were a bit upset about that news, I mean come on its a kid place, don't they expect strollers. The girl told me I could rent a backpack carrier. I wanted to laugh. She was a teenager, obviously not thinking that I was seven months pregnant and not interested in carrying a nearly 2 year old all the way through the aquarium. Anyway, enough complaining. Ellis probably liked the penguins the best but I would say my favorite was Denver, the huge sea turtle.
If you look way way way back in the blog from last year on our trip to Gammy and Pappy's you will find a hillarious story of Michael being terrified of sharks. Surprisingly, on our trip to what he calls the "E-quarium" he was actually looking for the sharks.





Ellis slept almost the whole way home but as soon as we pulled into the driveway he was ready to "go go go," thank goodness Gammy was ready to comply.








I was surprised that we were able to get him to take the helmet off so that he could eat his own dinner, but for Ella's he just wanted to sit and watch, helmet and all. He would look up every once in a while at whoever was watching and say "ummm."
Our day ended with what else but ice cream and a long drive to no where. (I'm sure that comes as no surprise to Trevor.) Ellis didn't actually get his own ice cream. All he needed was his own spoon because he just made his way around the table and sampled a little of everyone's. The favorite that he landed on was Michael's vanilla cone with sprinkles......I guess this means the Dairy Queen by the new house will be getting to know us even more than they already have.