Today is a little bit slow…Ella went playing again. She woke up smiling and in real good mood. Well we are used to it as she has no bad mornings since the world began 
I was in the house almost whole day.
We went out in the afternoon to get a mail in the post. We are about to leave the house when Ella noticed my orchids. The leaves are green when I bought it and now are all so yellow. They must be dying. “Mommy you said there is an orange, a pink, a red and a yellow…but see all of them are now yellow!” Oh my! Of all things she should have noticed it was the wilting orchids I bought last Saturday. Surely the vendor says it has this color and that…and Ella heard all of the conversation at the market when I bought it…and I was just so amazed at how she remembers the colors and complains about having just a yellow color. I explained “The colors are for the flowers…not for the leaves.”
Whe we are on our way, we passed by a little pond and Ella asked if she can swim there 
As we arrived into the curb, we saw the mailman whom we suppose was looking for the recipient of a mail and asked if we knew a LEE here…and we said “Oh yes, we are Lee’s” and the mailman was surprised and we all laughed. He handed us a little package for Ella and my Smart Bro bill. We are lucky that there’s a cab waiting for us so we packed ourselves in there to the market. While we are a few yards away, we looked back to see Bogart (Ella’s dog) was still on the road looking at us. I was worried that he will follow us there and kept telling Donald that we need to stop and send Bogart home first. But Ella then assured me, “Mommy, he won’t go to the market with us. He is just making sure we are going in the right direction” I asked why and she answered, “Because he is not allowed there.” I said, “Oh really? How did he know?” Ella answered “Because he read it there in the market when he first went there…Dogs are not allowed here in the market.”
At home before the dark sets in, Ella was writing a letter which I am not sure for whom. While I was here on my pc, she came in the room and pretended reading the letter….It was a letter from Mamang Eling (my mom) written for her….here’s what I overheard:
Dear Neng,
How are you? I hope you are happy on your birthday. I went to a mountain and wanted to buy you a lollipop for your birthday but I have no money to pay for it. I missed you so much. Can I borrow you from your mommy? So we can talk here in the mountain and you and Papang Lakay (my dad) can talk too. You have not seen each other for a long time and he missed you so much.
Neng, please listen to my daughter, your mommy, so you will be a good child. You study well and be good always.
I love you Neng. I missed you so much!
Love,
Mamang Eling
I was laughing while typing what she was saying…as if she was reading a true letter from my Mom. Even the tones are much like Mamang Eling! 
