Terrific Tuesday.

Ahhh, Tuesdays. Sort of a "lost in the shuffle of the week" kind of day. Not hectic Monday, not a day to mark the "hump" of the week, not a day that comprises 'TGIF' and certainly not weekend-day quality. So, I've decided to do my part to spice up Tuesdays ;-) Here are a few interesting little facts to jumpstart your Tuesday:

If you yelled for 6 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it, huh?)

Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

A flea can jump 350 times it's body length. That's the equivalent of a human jumping the length of a football field.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Right-handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left-handed people. (Score!!!)

The catfish has over 27,000 tastebuds.

Pretty interesting, huh?

In other news, Ella is thoroughly enjoying the month of October. She's been working hard on lots of crafts that can help decorate our house. She's made my windowsill above my sink adorable :)

She also made a piece of foam board into the perfect Halloween decoration for her room!

*For all of you wondering about the drawing to the left of the pumpkin, that is Ella's "Halloween Horse" ;-)

Today we're just hanging out and getting a few things together for the rest of our week. Thursday night we're super excited to be going to "Disney on Ice!" I haven't told Ella yet so she'll be SOOOO excited when I tell her. This version of the show includes Cars AND Lion King. She'll be in heaven! Check back for pictures :) Friday we have a "Princess Party" at Ella's friend, Riley's house. All the little girls are going to show up in their best Princess get-up and head on over to Riley's castle. We will see how long Ella will tolerate her costume. LOL! After the party we will head over to "Trunk-or-Treat!" at a local church. The members line their parking lot with their decorated cars/trunks and the kids go from car to car "trunk-or-treating." We went last year and Ella had a ball. They have hayrides and inflatables and all kind of fun games. So we're looking forward to that, too. Saturday I'm thinking about taking Ella to get her pictures taken for Halloween. We'll play it by ear.

We hope everyone's having a great week! Ella is insisting on including Rudy in this post, so I'll leave you with this picture! :)